British auction house Bonhams said on its website on the 18th (Korea Standard Time) that a napkin that Messi promised to join Barcelona when he was 13 years old was sold for £762,400 at an online auction. The auction started at 300,000 pounds (about 472.5 million won).
The auction began on the 8th and lasted for a week, and was sold at three times the price of the artist at the time of the auction.
In 2000, Barcelona met with his family to sign Messi, a 13-year-old who showed excellent skills.
However, Barcelona had never signed a 13-year-old foreign youth player before, so it did not give Messi a definite answer, so the contract was pushed back day after day.
In the meantime, Messi and Carles Leshark, director of Barcelona’s technology division, met at a restaurant in Barcelona, Spain, on December 14, 2000, and wrote a contract on the spot with a blue ballpoint pen on a napkin, which became famous.
Messi scored 672 goals in 778 official matches in Barcelona’s uniform, winning a total of 35 titles including 10 in the Spanish Primera Liga, eight in the Spanish Super Cup, seven in the Copa del Rey, four in the UEFA Champions League, three in the Club World Cup and three in the European Super Cup.
“It’s just a paper napkin, but it’s the beginning of Messi’s career,” Bonhams said. “A napkin changed the fate of Messi, who became one of the most outstanding players of all time, as well as Barcelona.”토토사이트 추천