Details of the napkin that served as Lionel Messi's first Barcelona contract have been revealed. Nearly 25 years ago back in ...

A plain white restaurant napkin outlining the agreement between ... and regardless of any dissenting opinions, to sign the player Lionel Messi, provided that we keep to the amounts agreed upon ...

Perhaps one of the most important moments in soccer history was commemorated on a napkin. It was used to unofficially sign 13-year-old Lionel Messi to FC Barcelona, where he would go on to become ...

In December 2000, FC Barcelona had yet to sign 13-year-old Lionel ... And so they inked a deal, drawing up a contract during a lunch meeting — on a napkin. Messi’s agent, a longtime Barcelona ...

The blue-inked napkin which led to Lionel Messi joining FC Barcelona ... the napkin signified Barcelona’s commitment to sign Messi to a contract when he was a 13-year-old prodigy from Argentina.

The commitment to a contract was ... dissenting opinions to sign the player Lionel Messi, provided that we keep to the amounts agreed,” Rexach wrote in Spanish. The napkin is also signed by ...

The napkin upon which Lionel Messi’s first Barcelona agreement ... with Barcelona director Carles Rexach desperate for the club to sign Messi, then aged 13. Messi had impressed during his ...

Lionel Messi now plays for Inter Miami in the United States The napkin on which Barcelona committed to sign a 13-year-old Lionel Messi has been sold in an auction for £762,400. The starting price ...

LONDON — Lionel Messi’s record-breaking career with Barcelona started with a contract written on a napkin. It’s up for ... an agreement in principle to sign Messi and was intended to ...

The famous napkin showing the agreement to sign then 13-year-old soccer star Lionel Messi to FC Barcelona ... with a more orthodox-looking contract. Messi made his professional competitive debut ...