The stars of football managed to have a little known match, long before crossing in the Argentine National Team.
It is said that selections usually gather The best soccer players born in your countrybut sometimes, fanaticism and admiration often give away other types of moments for players to know each other. Above all, when there are intermediaries that are able to fulfill some children’s dream.
While the maximum idol of Lionel Messi is Pablo Aimarit was known that the flea enjoyed seeing play Juan Román Riquelme When I was smaller. What many know is that these stars that could be associated in the albiceleste, had a little known encounter until not long ago.
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With a roast in between: the night of the first match between Riquelme and Messi
Josep María Minguella He is an agent of players born in Spain, in addition to former soccer coach and is very close to FC Barcelonawhere Messi showed his greatest talents and for which today President of Boca He had a small step after being sold by the blue and gold team.
“Sometimes Leo came home when we did a barbecue. I remember a specific one to which Riquelme, Fábio Rochemback, Thiago Motta and some other player came“The representative confessed in August 2018. There, the stars managed to see their faces for the first time.
“We did an afternoon-night and I can still see him sitting at the bottom of a table from where he looked like this, below the hair, To Riquelme. I watched it as if it were Jesus Christ Superstar “Minguella sentenced about the first time that Juan Román Riquelme and Lionel Andrés Messi met, although they did not know at the time that they were going to meet again in the ARGENTINE SELECTION.
They share birthdays and a key title in the Argentine National Team
Among the curiosities that football gives, it is not only that both have had the opportunity to cross talents with the albiceleste shirt. It is a fact not less than the flea and the maximum idol of Boca both comply with a June 24. As at this time, selections tournaments are usually played at the confederation or world level, they managed to celebrate their birthdays together in the concentrations.
The first duel that had them together sharing the ball was on October 9, 2005 in the Monumental stadium by the qualifiers for the World Cup in Germany 2006. It was triumph 2 to 0 against Peru And the future world champion made a penalty that today the Xeneize manager changed by goal. They shared a field on 26 opportunities and together they conquered the gold medal of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.
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