How Barça almost missed out on the Silent Assassin

Posted on 2011/05/27 , tagged as

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There’s a major piece in the Independent today on Luca Caioli’s biography of Lionel Messi, in advance of that player’s apperance at Wembley this Saturday for the Champions League final.

‘The remarkable story of how Barcelona captured – and almost immediately lost – the talents of the 13-year-old boy from Rosario, on Argentina’s Parana River, forms part of an engaging and superbly sourced new study of the player by the Italian journalist Luca Caioli.’

Read the full piece here and more about the book here.