Leo Messi in a party of the FC Barcelona

FRANK RIJKAARD, HIS FIRST TRAINER

Today it does 13 years of the official debut of Leo Messi with the Barça

Published New:16/10/2017 - 16:05h

Updated New:16/10/2017 - 18:43h

Any one that see him play could say that it was yesterday, but already does 13 years that Leo Messi debuted with the first team of the FC Barcelona. A 16 October 2004 Frank Rijkaard gave him the alternative against the RCD Espanyol, and the rest already is history

Calendar of FC Barcelona

Many already gave him by withdrawn, but in this Barça, more than ever, Leo Messi is the leader. The Argentinian surpasses day after day, and in each party shows reason is one of the best players of the history. His path already comes of far, and one of the big steps of his career occurred a day as today.

It was on 16 October 2004, when it changed the life of the rosarino and also of the Barcelona group. It ran the minute 84 of a derbi between the RCD Espanyol and the FC Barcelona, and Frank Rijkard, by then trainer of the first team, decided that one of the promises of the filial had to jump to the lawn of the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys, with 17 years and 22 days.

Hardly six parties of League contested Read in that course 2004-05, with the dorsal '30' to the back and the feeling of that footballer was different. In the last of them premièred like goleador against the Albacete, connecting neither more neither less with Ronaldinho, and by twice, since the referee cancelled his first so much by offside. The rest, as it is used to to say, is history.

The starts

The own FC Barcelona has wanted to add to the celebration of the 13 years of the official debut of Leo Messi, and has done it remembering his starts in The Masia. The Barcelona club does not have incidido in his arrival to the first team, but it has preferred to show how was before the '10'. To enjoy.