Lionel Messi’s world career began with this napkin. (AFP / TIMOTHY A. CLARY)
The sports director of the FC Barcelona football club wrote something on the napkin. FC Barcelona is a club in the city of Barcelona in Spain. The sports director wrote on the napkin that he wanted to bring Messi to FC Barcelona. That was more than 23 years ago. At the time, Messi was only 13 years old. Messi’s father and 2 advisors were also present at the meeting. Afterwards they made a real contract.
Messi played for FC Barcelona for 21 years. And he has won many important awards for the club. This napkin is therefore very important for many football fans.
In March the napkin will be auctioned off at an auction house. This means that people can offer money for the napkin. Whoever bids the most gets the napkin. The auction house employees say: The napkin is worth between 350,000 and 585,000 euros. They also say: It could well be that even more is offered for the napkin.
