IN THE DERBI IN FRONT OF THE ESPANYOL
Lionel Messi, to 17 years of his debut with the Barcelona
Published:16/10/2021 - 16:24h
Updated:16/10/2021 - 17:00h
Lionel Messi debuted with the Barça on 16 October 2004. On 16 May it contested his last party like Barcelona; months afterwards, announced his desvinculación of the club and his signing with Paris Saint-Germain, where milita at present
A 16 October, but of the year 2004, the fans of the FC Barcelona was witness of the debut of the best player of his history. With hardly 17 years, Lionel Messi jumped for the first time to the field dressed like culé in front of the Espanyol in the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys of Montjuïc.
That presentation was the start of an exceptional career in the Barcelona team, with which would consecrate like one of the best players of all time to the long of his 17 seasons until his last apparition with the Barça, also a day 16, but of the month of May of 2021.
Later, a series of positive and negative statements on his contractual situation with the club culminated with the announcement of his desvinculación of the Catalan entity in August, before his course to Paris Saint-Germain, where faces his first season in Tie it 1.
Like this it was the debut of Messi
To eight minutes of the pitido final of the commitment that won the Barça by the minimum difference (0-1), another Dutch technician, Frank Rijkaard, decided to give him his confidence to a group of canteranos (Messi, Cristian, Damiá, Crag and the goalkeeper Rubén) taking into account the drops of Giuly, Motta, Sylvinho, among others.
For then, Joan Laporta found in the loge and ensures that those first 10 minutes of Messi remain still frescos in his memory: "I will remember Them all my life". For the player, that had arrived with 13 years, went the perfect gift of the Day of the Mother, then celebrated in Argentina, for his progenitor, Celia.
