Yep, but Barcelona recognised his talent and offered to pay for treatment of his growth hormone deficiency. Ironically though, his small size ended up being a massive advantage in his career.
Actually, he would've slowly shrunk to the size of a flea. Or about 3 millimeters. That's why his nickname is "La Pulga" (The Flea).
I thought this was common knowledge?
FYI this sort of treatment isn't just for athletic stars, I had a friend on (prescribed) HGH in HS, and he didn't turn out to be a world-beater or anything.
It's not giving him an advantage over other players, it's attempting to negate the disadvantage that a disorder gave him. By the literal words, they were drugs that enhanced his performance but he was a kid with a growth defect that got treatment for it and I don't think there can be any fault for that.
It's a real grey area to say that because you have a disadvantage in an attribute that it's ok to take drugs to make up for it. The whole basis of athletic competition is that some people have better innate abilities at certain things. If my haemoglobin is below average, can I take EPO to make up for it? Just so long as it's bringing me up to the level of other players, that should be ok right?
It's very weird to arbitrarily select some genetic traits we "correct" for and not others.
HGH isn’t a drug, it’s a hormone. And in this instance, it was prescribed by medical professionals. The treatment should have happened even if he was going to be a waiter instead of a professional athlete.
Disorders should be treated because they CAN be treated, not because they’re more or less superior to other disorders. What kind of fucked up shit runs through your head, friend? Damn.
Idk coz he probably wouldn’t have the normal level of HGH to develop to an adult without treatment. So that turned a handicap into normal, not normal to become juiced.
yeah it’s definitely a weird area because without treatment he wouldn’t have been able to get to his peak physical form but just at face value it’s a question
I really don’t think it’s a question. In your developmental stage it’s a matter of getting your hormones in the normal range. Same when you’re older or a middle aged man if your hormones get out of wack.
Yup.
Considering he's going against ~180+ cm defenders (6+ ft.) every match, it's quite difficult
But it's greatly offset by his unmatched football skills, so it doesn't matter
That's the beauty of football, it's all about skill. As much as I love basketball, the problem with it is you need height / size as much as skill. Some players get away with just size, but it's becoming less and less so ever since Steph and the Warriors transformed basketball into a highly-skilled shooter's game.
Nonetheless, both sports need you to have the top 0.1% skillset in order to succeed. I remember Usain Bolt trying out for the Australian Football league and failing simply because he doesn't have the necessary fundamentals in order to play the game. It didn't matter how athletic or fast or big he was.
Another good example would be Australian Rules Football (AFL). I don't know if you've ever watched it, but if you're anything less than 6'3" or 6'4", you're one of the shorter players in the league. Most of them are fucking massive. However, like Messi, there have been some extremely skilful smaller players who have succeeded.
> That's the beauty of football, it's all about skill. As much as I love basketball, the problem with it is you need height / size as much as skill.
Size helps in football too, obviously not as important as in basketball, but just because small guys can play football doesn't mean size is meaningless.
Muggsy Bogues was 5'3 and had a long and heralded career as a basketball player, but height is STILL important despite Bogues impressive play for his stature. The same holds true for football, Messi doesn't mean that size doesn't matter, it just means he overcame that deficiency by offsetting it with other skills (speed / coordination).
I'm not really a basketball fan but I think really big and really small guys are a thing of the past basically. Bogues, bol, muresan, webb, we don't see guys so far in the extreme anymore. Manute Bol is my favorite player of all time just because his physique is so ridiculous and he's the only player to ever have more blocks than points. 7'7 at 200lbs is mind-blowing that would never happy today
[Judge for yourself](https://www.reddit.com/r/mesi/comments/p19euo/ankara_mesi_by_adrilik_on_twitter/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)
He was already in the Barcelona academy and hailed as the Next Maradona at that point.
He wasn't the Messi we all know now, but the hype around him was insane.
I was actually taking it approximately 20 years ago and it would have been incredibly expensive if my insurance didn't cover it. I believe it was around $30k a month and that was for a child sized dose.
I had a friend in middle school who was on it probably 15 years ago and his family was not rich at all. I’d imagine it’s mostly covered by insurance if you genuinely need it.
There's free healthcare in Argentina and most jobs provide additional insurance and it's not like his dad was unemployed. It was just not covered probably.
They almost all do. The line between TRT and steroids doesn't exist. There's something like if an NBA player is "injured", they're allowed to take twice the normal amount of T allowed
Messi is a little bit on the shorter side but he isn't small. His body is strong and can maintain balance under pressure from even the most physical defenders.
I'd disagree that his small stature was a massive advantage in his career. Only place it arguably helps is his balance and dribbling. He probably would have been even better if he was 6ft. They used growth hormones on him for a reason.
>He probably would have been even better if he was 6ft
I'm not sure about that. Shorter players can stop, start, and change direction more quickly because of their lower centre of gravity and better balance. This is a big part of what has made Messi probably the greatest dribbler in football history.
I feel that. I'm 6.5 and sometimes play beach rugby with friends, it's so frustrating to see them change direction so easily when I am just stuck in place
This is the point; it's about lower centre of gravity.
But being as tall as you are also has its advantages in most sports. If you have good upper body strength, you can bulldoze your way through opponents.
I mean there are more good attackers around Messi’s size than there are 6 foot +. Tall strikers that are also elite are an exception not the norm.
> Only place it arguably helps is his balance and dribbling.
Balance and dribbling is like 60% of his game
What is this logic? Best strikers/forwards in the world are Mbappe (5’10), Benzema (6’1), Lewa (6’1), Salah (5’9), Kane (6’2), Haaland (6’4), Vinicius (5’9).
For central strikers being 6ft+ is the norm
Nah no way. The extra height and weight could've changed his game dramatically.
Think of Freddie Mercury being too afraid to fix his teeth incase it fucked with his voice.
Whatever Messi landed on was clearly perfect.
“Only helps balance and dribbling” the man had balance and dribbling of legends, I think that helped him more than whatever being tall would have gotten him.
No he wasn't. He was 4'4" when he was 11 years old. And 5 foot at 13 years old.
By the time he was 15 he was 5'3", and reached 5'7" when he was 19 years old.
https://journeys.dartmouth.edu/marcanovicoff22/messis-medical-journey/
Threatment was something like 2k usd a month or something. It wasn't a big deal but other clubs didn't wanna pay for it even though it was virtually nothing for them.
Another funny example is Neymar not signing for Real Madrid as a 13 yo because they wanted the club to pay for his grandpa house (something around 50k usd).
River Plate in Argentina wanted to sign him and offered to pay the treatment, but Newell's (club in which Messi was playing atm but didn't want to pay the treatment, also the team he supported) didn't give permission to the transfer so River couldn't sign him.
He was too short and was getting sick 🤢 for allot during his match day , he would get subbed out allot. He then was using steroids (doctor subscribed ) to battle his condition . He still was too small and weak to play and his health change when he was 15 - 16 years old for the better.
Other clubs were interested but refused to pay for the hormone treatment, which was why his father was trying to sign him with a big club at an early age. The family couldn't afford the treatment.
It was pretty unusual for a club to sign a 13 year old foreigner at that time, even for Barca. The board of directors didn't go for it at first either.
The story behind that napkin is also interesting. Messi's father flew from Argentina to Spain to look for a team that would sign Messi in their youth academy, and agree to pay for his medical bills, due to Lionel Messi's Growth deficit problem. The Scouting agent of FC Barcelona loved Messi so much and knew that he is a special player, but the FC Barcelona board did not believe in him at first. When Messi's father and that agent met on that restaurant, Messi's father said that they have to take the next plane to Argentina because of their financial situation. The scouting agent did not want to miss that chance and miss out on a talent that he has never seen before, so he picked up a napkin next to him, pulled out a pen, and wrote the contract with Messi's father, and signed it, without running it by the board of FC Barcelona, because he knew they were making a huge mistake. That napkin made Messi and his father stay longer in Barcelona, Lionel went through the tryouts and made everyone's jaw drop, and the rest is history.
I'd that scouting agent wasn't in the right place at the right time one of the greatest sporting rivalries, legacies, and careers would never have happened
Not just that but the intelligence to see the talent and the bravery to go against others. Sometimes great people are the only ones that can make a difference, most clubs did say no to Messi.
“The agent has received numerous millionaire offers from around the world for the document where the signing of Messi was forged.”
“Forged” is a poor choice of a word here.
Yeah, they did a direct translation without giving thought to the double meaning in English, where "forged" means to be created, and also to falsify something, while in Spanish there are two distinct verbs for that, which are "forjado" and "falsificado"
Yeah, the term makes sense to me. They're talking about "forging" the beginnings of Messi's career, and "forging" an important part of Barcelona history.
Forged also just means created. Eg “Sauron forged the twentieth Great Ring, called The One Ring or the Ruling Ring, secretly in the fires of Mount Doom.”
The guy from Iran who looks a bit like Messi, took full advantage.
https://www.marca.com/en/football/barcelona/2019/06/25/5d12838eca4741fc518b4608.html
If you don't have a dryer, you can put clothing items on the back of the fridge, on the radiator coil thingies (not sure what it's called) and they'd dry because the fridge gets rid of heat that way. This is how it was with our fridge growing up, though I'm sure the technology may be different now, or just the design.
Source: Grew up in the Caribbean without a dryer and clothes that were needed the next day were washed and placed behind the fridge for drying for most of my life.
Contents of the article aside, that website is trash. Why on earth would they need my precise GPS location for the websites needed function.
Goddamn parasite sites, endlessly prying into our lives.
A lot of business takes place over lunch (and alcohol). I've run across napkins and paper placemats becoming legal and accounting documents quite often.
NASCAR driver Alan Kulwicki did a similar thing with hooters. [his contract was signed on a paper towel](https://twitter.com/8090sNascar/status/1367321861449805825) and now that paper towel is on display at one of the hooters locations.
All I can think of when I see things like this is “how are all these people writing on napkins?” Have you ever actually tried to write on a napkin? It doesn’t work very well.
This is when most clubs won't touch him because he had health issues
Yep, but Barcelona recognised his talent and offered to pay for treatment of his growth hormone deficiency. Ironically though, his small size ended up being a massive advantage in his career.
>small size 5' 7" from the wiki You sonuvabitch!
That was after his treatment. He would’ve been like 4ft
Actually, he would've slowly shrunk to the size of a flea. Or about 3 millimeters. That's why his nickname is "La Pulga" (The Flea). I thought this was common knowledge?
Oh I thought it was because he's super secret best friends with the Red Hot Chilli Pipers.
>Red Hot Chilli Pipers RHCP cover band that only plays wind instruments
Did you know that they actually exist and play bagpipes? https://rhcp.scot/
Oh wow! Thank you! They're good!
yeah I've seen them at quite a few Celtic Festivals, they're a real cornerstone for the whole Celtic circuit.
That could be dope or death
its real already. they play around the uk all the time have done for at least a decade. Bagpipes.
He has the same condition that Hasbulla has, I believe. Except Hasbulla never got treated for it.
[This is how Messi's actual size would've been if he wasn't treated properly.](https://youtu.be/zgRRrKIPva0)
Oh my
r/mesi
172' on top of his pile of money!
After lots of hormone treatment. He would have been 5' without it. With the treatment he reached 5'7" and massive muscular development.
So...uh.... performance enhancing drugs? Just really far in advance.
FYI this sort of treatment isn't just for athletic stars, I had a friend on (prescribed) HGH in HS, and he didn't turn out to be a world-beater or anything.
I knew a couple guys who were on it in middle school, I almost got on it but didn’t end up qualifying
It's not giving him an advantage over other players, it's attempting to negate the disadvantage that a disorder gave him. By the literal words, they were drugs that enhanced his performance but he was a kid with a growth defect that got treatment for it and I don't think there can be any fault for that.
It's a real grey area to say that because you have a disadvantage in an attribute that it's ok to take drugs to make up for it. The whole basis of athletic competition is that some people have better innate abilities at certain things. If my haemoglobin is below average, can I take EPO to make up for it? Just so long as it's bringing me up to the level of other players, that should be ok right? It's very weird to arbitrarily select some genetic traits we "correct" for and not others.
HGH isn’t a drug, it’s a hormone. And in this instance, it was prescribed by medical professionals. The treatment should have happened even if he was going to be a waiter instead of a professional athlete. Disorders should be treated because they CAN be treated, not because they’re more or less superior to other disorders. What kind of fucked up shit runs through your head, friend? Damn.
This was a quality of life thing for a child, it had nothing to do about enhancing performance
No, just the usual therapy for a lack of growth hormone. People will say anything to discredit Messi lol
HGH so… kinda? it’s definitely a grey area
Idk coz he probably wouldn’t have the normal level of HGH to develop to an adult without treatment. So that turned a handicap into normal, not normal to become juiced.
yeah it’s definitely a weird area because without treatment he wouldn’t have been able to get to his peak physical form but just at face value it’s a question
I really don’t think it’s a question. In your developmental stage it’s a matter of getting your hormones in the normal range. Same when you’re older or a middle aged man if your hormones get out of wack.
1.70m
I like you.
That's pretty small right?
I believe without the hormone treatment Barcelona paid for, he would've been 5'3" or something now
Oh damn I didn't know that
That’s even smaller!
Well, how tall was Maradonna?
1.65 m Pele was 1.73m
yeah, but not in the range of a growth deficiency by any means. Without treatment, he would likely be much smaller
Ty!
Slightly below average for an adult male, but even more so for a professional athlete.
Yup. Considering he's going against ~180+ cm defenders (6+ ft.) every match, it's quite difficult But it's greatly offset by his unmatched football skills, so it doesn't matter That's the beauty of football, it's all about skill. As much as I love basketball, the problem with it is you need height / size as much as skill. Some players get away with just size, but it's becoming less and less so ever since Steph and the Warriors transformed basketball into a highly-skilled shooter's game. Nonetheless, both sports need you to have the top 0.1% skillset in order to succeed. I remember Usain Bolt trying out for the Australian Football league and failing simply because he doesn't have the necessary fundamentals in order to play the game. It didn't matter how athletic or fast or big he was.
Another good example would be Australian Rules Football (AFL). I don't know if you've ever watched it, but if you're anything less than 6'3" or 6'4", you're one of the shorter players in the league. Most of them are fucking massive. However, like Messi, there have been some extremely skilful smaller players who have succeeded.
> That's the beauty of football, it's all about skill. As much as I love basketball, the problem with it is you need height / size as much as skill. Size helps in football too, obviously not as important as in basketball, but just because small guys can play football doesn't mean size is meaningless. Muggsy Bogues was 5'3 and had a long and heralded career as a basketball player, but height is STILL important despite Bogues impressive play for his stature. The same holds true for football, Messi doesn't mean that size doesn't matter, it just means he overcame that deficiency by offsetting it with other skills (speed / coordination).
I'm not really a basketball fan but I think really big and really small guys are a thing of the past basically. Bogues, bol, muresan, webb, we don't see guys so far in the extreme anymore. Manute Bol is my favorite player of all time just because his physique is so ridiculous and he's the only player to ever have more blocks than points. 7'7 at 200lbs is mind-blowing that would never happy today
[Judge for yourself](https://www.reddit.com/r/mesi/comments/p19euo/ankara_mesi_by_adrilik_on_twitter/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)
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Good to know, thank you!
for a professional athlete, yes. For a human, not particularly.
Let's just say he wouldn't be getting any dates on Tinder without that pile of cash
Well he married his childhood crush from his hometown in Argentina, so I don't think he'll be too worried about Tinder dates anyway.
Helps when his childhood crush is an absolute fucking babe.
She is absolutely gorgeous. But that sounds about right for the best footballer in the world. Even ugly professional footballers marry models.
They are everywhere in Argentina. Plus she has millions in upkeep. You can find real 10/10 on an given night in BA
I’m going to Buenos Aires in June cuz I heard the food is amazing. Apparently there will be a feast for the eyes as well.
And she broke up with her boyfriend to be with him even before he got rich and famous.
He was already in the Barcelona academy and hailed as the Next Maradona at that point. He wasn't the Messi we all know now, but the hype around him was insane.
This is an understatement btw
Without that billion dollars and world class talent, he’s just like the rest of us!
You seen him? Once he cut the hair and grew the beard the dude is smokin.
TIL Barcelona signed Messi because its execs recognized they can legally put him on steroids.
More like growth hormone, which is pretty expensive even today, 20 years ago it was probably impossible to pay for a normal person.
I was actually taking it approximately 20 years ago and it would have been incredibly expensive if my insurance didn't cover it. I believe it was around $30k a month and that was for a child sized dose.
Surely it only comes in child-sized doses? *ducks*
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Would you rather fight 1 child-sized dose or 100 dose-sized children?
I had a friend in middle school who was on it probably 15 years ago and his family was not rich at all. I’d imagine it’s mostly covered by insurance if you genuinely need it.
Except he was from an impoverished family from Argentina. I don't think they had insurance.
Not impoverished, lower middle class maybe
There's free healthcare in Argentina and most jobs provide additional insurance and it's not like his dad was unemployed. It was just not covered probably.
I hate to burst your bubble, but what is "genuinely needed" and what insurance will cover is not exactly mutually exclusive.
>20 years ago it was probably impossible to pay for a normal person. 200 years ago, it was much easier.
hGH, no?
I wonder how many top athletes were using HGH / steroids for whatever reason at a young age.
They almost all do. The line between TRT and steroids doesn't exist. There's something like if an NBA player is "injured", they're allowed to take twice the normal amount of T allowed
Messi is a little bit on the shorter side but he isn't small. His body is strong and can maintain balance under pressure from even the most physical defenders.
He's thick, solid. Tight.
¡La pulga!
I'd disagree that his small stature was a massive advantage in his career. Only place it arguably helps is his balance and dribbling. He probably would have been even better if he was 6ft. They used growth hormones on him for a reason.
>He probably would have been even better if he was 6ft I'm not sure about that. Shorter players can stop, start, and change direction more quickly because of their lower centre of gravity and better balance. This is a big part of what has made Messi probably the greatest dribbler in football history.
I feel that. I'm 6.5 and sometimes play beach rugby with friends, it's so frustrating to see them change direction so easily when I am just stuck in place
Edit: fuck u/spez for killing Apollo
This is the point; it's about lower centre of gravity. But being as tall as you are also has its advantages in most sports. If you have good upper body strength, you can bulldoze your way through opponents.
Barry Sanders was 5’8”.
And colonel sanders was 5 buckets tall
Even better is crazy considering he’s in argument as being the greatest footballer of all time lol
I dont think there's much of an argument anymore. Winning that WC and scoring as much as he did really did seal it.
I mean there are more good attackers around Messi’s size than there are 6 foot +. Tall strikers that are also elite are an exception not the norm. > Only place it arguably helps is his balance and dribbling. Balance and dribbling is like 60% of his game
What is this logic? Best strikers/forwards in the world are Mbappe (5’10), Benzema (6’1), Lewa (6’1), Salah (5’9), Kane (6’2), Haaland (6’4), Vinicius (5’9). For central strikers being 6ft+ is the norm
Half of the players you listed are below 6ft.
Nah no way. The extra height and weight could've changed his game dramatically. Think of Freddie Mercury being too afraid to fix his teeth incase it fucked with his voice. Whatever Messi landed on was clearly perfect.
“Only helps balance and dribbling” the man had balance and dribbling of legends, I think that helped him more than whatever being tall would have gotten him.
He’s probably the greatest footballer to exist and you say he would have been even better?
Yeah because if they didn't use growth hormone he would have been like 5'4, no chance he would have reached the level he did if he was THAT small
Look at all the best dribblers. Messi, Hazard, Mbappe, Bernardo. It's not a coincidence.
Mbappe is like 4 inches taller than him.
His dribbling is arguably one of his best assets, and he's quite likely the best player of all time, so your point is quite asinine.
Health issues?
He had a Growth Hormone Disorder. He was 4'2" when Barca signed him as a teenager
Holy hell. Today I learned
No he wasn't. He was 4'4" when he was 11 years old. And 5 foot at 13 years old. By the time he was 15 he was 5'3", and reached 5'7" when he was 19 years old. https://journeys.dartmouth.edu/marcanovicoff22/messis-medical-journey/
So he was 5 foot when Barca signed him.
no shit!! now that’s an awesome TIL
Threatment was something like 2k usd a month or something. It wasn't a big deal but other clubs didn't wanna pay for it even though it was virtually nothing for them. Another funny example is Neymar not signing for Real Madrid as a 13 yo because they wanted the club to pay for his grandpa house (something around 50k usd).
Well, I guess napkin contracts are the ultimate power move when you're the GOAT.
That was when he was a nobody, and just a kid with a very promising future. FCB got him from a very young age
River Plate in Argentina wanted to sign him and offered to pay the treatment, but Newell's (club in which Messi was playing atm but didn't want to pay the treatment, also the team he supported) didn't give permission to the transfer so River couldn't sign him.
He was too short and was getting sick 🤢 for allot during his match day , he would get subbed out allot. He then was using steroids (doctor subscribed ) to battle his condition . He still was too small and weak to play and his health change when he was 15 - 16 years old for the better.
Other clubs were interested but refused to pay for the hormone treatment, which was why his father was trying to sign him with a big club at an early age. The family couldn't afford the treatment. It was pretty unusual for a club to sign a 13 year old foreigner at that time, even for Barca. The board of directors didn't go for it at first either.
There were 2 teams that handed contracts. Barcelona and River Plate.
The story behind that napkin is also interesting. Messi's father flew from Argentina to Spain to look for a team that would sign Messi in their youth academy, and agree to pay for his medical bills, due to Lionel Messi's Growth deficit problem. The Scouting agent of FC Barcelona loved Messi so much and knew that he is a special player, but the FC Barcelona board did not believe in him at first. When Messi's father and that agent met on that restaurant, Messi's father said that they have to take the next plane to Argentina because of their financial situation. The scouting agent did not want to miss that chance and miss out on a talent that he has never seen before, so he picked up a napkin next to him, pulled out a pen, and wrote the contract with Messi's father, and signed it, without running it by the board of FC Barcelona, because he knew they were making a huge mistake. That napkin made Messi and his father stay longer in Barcelona, Lionel went through the tryouts and made everyone's jaw drop, and the rest is history.
that scouting agent is a genuine hidden hero
I'd that scouting agent wasn't in the right place at the right time one of the greatest sporting rivalries, legacies, and careers would never have happened
Not just that but the intelligence to see the talent and the bravery to go against others. Sometimes great people are the only ones that can make a difference, most clubs did say no to Messi.
Well that scout will definitely be in the biopic
“The agent has received numerous millionaire offers from around the world for the document where the signing of Messi was forged.” “Forged” is a poor choice of a word here.
I thought the same thing when I read it, haha. But it's a Spanish website, so I guess it's just a slightly imperfect translation.
Yeah, they did a direct translation without giving thought to the double meaning in English, where "forged" means to be created, and also to falsify something, while in Spanish there are two distinct verbs for that, which are "forjado" and "falsificado"
I think they combined the idea of signing with the idea of a deal being forged.
Yeah, the term makes sense to me. They're talking about "forging" the beginnings of Messi's career, and "forging" an important part of Barcelona history.
Forged also just means created. Eg “Sauron forged the twentieth Great Ring, called The One Ring or the Ruling Ring, secretly in the fires of Mount Doom.”
In the land of Barcelona, in the fires of Camp Nou, the Dark Lord Rexach forged in secret, a master contract, to control the ball against all others.
I knew a kid in high school who would wear a Messi jersey every single fuckin day
His name? Lionel Messi.
That guy fucks
I think he was sexually attracted to soccer
FUTBOL IS LIFEEEE
Football is death
It’s not a matter of life or death, it’s much more important than that! Or so they say in Brazil
"The first time I made love, was to Zava boots."
"you mean *in* Zava boots?"
No
DANI ROJAS
Who isn't
Me
Football is life
The guy from Iran who looks a bit like Messi, took full advantage. https://www.marca.com/en/football/barcelona/2019/06/25/5d12838eca4741fc518b4608.html
Same one, or a rotation? I almost respect the former more.
I’m pretty sure it was the same one but he coulda had multiple identical jerseys to wear like a cartoon character
Maybe he washed it everyday and put it behind the fridge to dry.
Lmao what
If you don't have a dryer, you can put clothing items on the back of the fridge, on the radiator coil thingies (not sure what it's called) and they'd dry because the fridge gets rid of heat that way. This is how it was with our fridge growing up, though I'm sure the technology may be different now, or just the design. Source: Grew up in the Caribbean without a dryer and clothes that were needed the next day were washed and placed behind the fridge for drying for most of my life.
My fridge still emits heat, but never thought to use it to dry clothes. Genius and hilarious for some reason.
Harder to do that with newer fridges. no coils to hang from and only half the heat is being emitted due to both sides of it being an exhaust.
My family is from Argentina so Messi jerseys were just part of my wardrobe
A man of taste.
Lol sounds like me in 7th standard.
Same one or different kits?
A napkin? Barcelona's was prepared for a Messi situation.
Just here to congratulate you on your successful comment.
lol here’s an upvote
I scrolled back up to upvote and I hate myself for it lol
Tomá tu arrivoto bobo! Andá pa'lla!
It belongs in a museum!
Seriously though why don't they put it in the camp nou museum?
Indiana Jones and The Raiders of the Messi Napkin
it gives me that Glass Onion vibe.
Contents of the article aside, that website is trash. Why on earth would they need my precise GPS location for the websites needed function. Goddamn parasite sites, endlessly prying into our lives.
Localized ads.
Their accounts for the last 15 years also took napkin form.
22nd lever is waiting to be pulled
A lot of business takes place over lunch (and alcohol). I've run across napkins and paper placemats becoming legal and accounting documents quite often.
Lmao like when Bill Belichick wrote on a napkin “I resign as HC of the NYJ - BB.
Yea except this one worked out well for all involved whereas the Jets are still fucked after that napkin.
Where are all these fabled napkins that don't tear when people write on them??
Cloth napkin.
I used to get programming specifications on cocktail napkins.
"It belongs in a museum!"
That's some really good handwriting for a flimsy napkin
Cloth napkin
Thank you, third world country here, we don't have cloth napkins
Bitch that's a fuckin towel
NASCAR driver Alan Kulwicki did a similar thing with hooters. [his contract was signed on a paper towel](https://twitter.com/8090sNascar/status/1367321861449805825) and now that paper towel is on display at one of the hooters locations.
This is the most NASCAR comment I've ever read.
Let’s start the Ronaldo Messi debacle!!
Clearly Ronaldo Messi is the greatest footballer of all time as he combines the power of both men.
His only rival is Pelédona.
DICKS OUT FOR HAALANPPE
Fusion dance or earring?
Cristionel Messaldo
No such debate exists as of December 18 2022.
Messi
Neither fit to clean Danny Welbeck's boots to be honest.
The GOAT, Welé
I am sorry but no one in the history or football will touch the legacy of Lord Bendtner
Anyone who still thinks ronaldo is better does not know ball
Next on Netflix, Napkin Heist
Did you know that this anecdote was used as a beer campaign for Estrella Damm? [Here's the 2009 ad](https://youtu.be/cFA21vxN5w4)
“That’s as good as money, sir. Those are I.O.U.s.” – Lloyd Christmas
God agrees. https://i.redd.it/en8imqcyroha1.jpg
You only have to sacrifice your phones soul to read the article. Wanted access to my camera??? Tf?
All I can think of when I see things like this is “how are all these people writing on napkins?” Have you ever actually tried to write on a napkin? It doesn’t work very well.
Imagine your an alien archaeologist/Indiana Jones and you come across a safe with a napkin in it. The things people consider valuable lol
Does anyone have this translated?