Paulista (dpa) – Which club in the world would not like to sign the clubless Lionel Messi? European giants like Paris Saint-Germain and Manchester City are said to be interested – and Messi’s club from childhood days in his hometown of Rosario is also hopeful.
But now the Íbis Sport Club, which describes itself as the “worst team in the world”, has made a curious offer to the world football star from Argentina.
“Assina, MESSI” (sign, MESSI), wrote the association from the city of Paulista in the Brazilian state of Pernambuco on Twitter, where it has almost 300,000 followers. The Ibis Sport Club had not won for three years and eleven months in the lowlands of Brazilian football at the beginning of the 1980s, which earned it an entry in the Guinness Book of Records, a certain fame and, most recently, a contract with a bookmaker. Now the club from the lowlands of Brazilian football wants to use the fact that Messi is a so-called free agent after the expiry of the contract in Barcelona – although the offer for a contract for 15 years reads the reputation of the team strange.
Accordingly, the exceptional talent is not allowed to wear the number ten because it is no longer awarded after the extraordinarily unsuccessful Mauro Shampoo, he is not allowed to score goals, not to become a champion – and the Argentine has to swear three times in front of the mirror that Pele is better than Maradona.
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