Categories: Sport

Messi’s promised Barca contract, on a napkin, up for auction



NEW YORK: To the untrained eye, it might look like just another used napkin.
But the serviette, expected to fetch up to $635,000, was actually soccer legend Lionel Messi’s springboard to greatness at FC Barcelona, and records the promise of a contract made to him at the tender age of 13.
The napkin has gone on show in New York to drum up interest, ahead of the start of bidding on March 18, against a backdrop of soaring interest in soccer memorabilia.



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