Today is the 15th anniversary of Lionel Andrés Messi Cuccittini will score his first goal with Futbol Club Barcelona, the genesis of a prolific career, the most admired and revered in the history of the Catalan squad.
On May 1, 2005, the “Culés” received the Albacete of a Camp Nou that ignored back then the idyll that awaited him in the following years with the Argentine star who turned the colossus of Barcelona into his temple.
Frank Rijkaard ordered the entry of Messi at 87 ‘. The “Flea”, who had debuted in the first team in October of the previous year and with number 30, took the place of Samuel Eto’o. With the score 1-0 favorable to the Blaugrana (thanks to the Cameroonian), the Dutch coach decided to give the Argentine a few minutes, who, moments after entering, sent the ball to the nets … although the action was canceled.
It didn’t matter since the best was yet to come. In the replacement, Ronaldinho, unknowingly, served as “godfather” of the most spectacular career ever seen at the Camp Nou by granting a masterful “little hat” pass to Messi who, in the area, waited patiently for the ball to bounce and , before the goalkeeper leaves Raúl ValbuenaHe gave a subtle as well as precise touch, between the instep and the inner part, left-handed, to globear the goalkeeper and lift the local fans out of their seats for the first time.
The beginning of everything, Messi would make the fans blaugrana scream 626 more times after that goal (so far) and also, astonish many others not so “culés”. “Leo” burst into the history of football with class in that game of the Spanish League against Albacete, and perhaps no one glimpsed what that “Flea” was going to offer later.
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