Showing posts with label Messi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Messi. Show all posts

Friday, October 5, 2018

Amuse Bouche


After the ceremony, Miguella and I shared a lunch of snails and roast pork in nearby GuimerĂ .... before driving back to Barcelona, feeling all the better for having honoured the legendary Cruyff, and discussing Messi, a player who owes part of his success to the Dutchman’s influence at FC Barcelona, and Miguella’s mediation.

Miguella shared his story thus: ‘When the financial crisis hit Argentina…. A friend of mine, an Argentine lawyer called Juan Mateo Walter, rings me and says, “Look, there is this incredible kid from Rosario I have for you.”..’

from Cristiano & Leo by Jimmy Burns (2018). Recommended.