Inter striker Marcus Thuram was fortunate sufficient to satisfy Lionel Messi in particular person when he was a child and obtain his boots as a gift, however he revealed to have given them away to make certainly one of his teammates joyful.
, the place his father Lilian Thuram was enjoying in 1997 earlier than shifting to Juventus and ultimately to Barcelona, crossing paths with the Argentinean star.
The chance got here when the then 11-year-old child adopted his father and went to coach for the Blaugrana, solely to grasp he hadn’t taken the boots with him. Messi then agreed to offer Marcus his pair, which might turn into worthwhile memorabilia as that younger Barcelona ahead went on to determine himself as the very best participant on the earth.
Thuram gave away Messi’s boots: Simply ‘certainly one of my dad’s teammates’
“I had gone to coaching and had left my boots at residence, and the participant whose shoe dimension was closest to mine was Lionel Messi,” the Frenchman recalled in an interview with UEFA, .
“At the moment, Messi was already the unimaginable participant he nonetheless is, however for me, as only a child, he was certainly one of my dad’s teammates who lent me a pair of shoes to go prepare.”
Because of this the Inter star didn’t hesitate a lot to offer away the boots when certainly one of his shut pals and a teammate at Olympique de Neuilly, the place he used to play again then, ‘went loopy’ at seeing the current he had obtained.
“I noticed the response of certainly one of my finest pals again then,” he defined.
“He actually went loopy when he noticed the boots, so I instructed him, ‘In case you like them a lot, you possibly can preserve them.’ And I gave them to him.”