Son of the 1998 world champion Lilian Thuram, Marcus Thuram obviously had some privileges in his youth. And among them, he was able to realize the dream of all football fans, meeting the greatest player in history, Lionel Messi, when his father played for Barça at the end of his career: “I was at the Barça training center, I must have been 11 years old and the player who had the closest size to mine was Lionel Messi”, as he explains on the microphone of Canal + through an anecdote that will surprise more than one person.
“I didn’t know who it was.”
Indeed, the one who now plays at Inter Milan reveals that he was lucky enough to be able to recover the Argentinian's crampons, but that he then… lost their tracks: “At the time, it He was an incredible player, but for me as a kid, he was just a teammate of Dad's who would lend me his cleats to go to practice, so I go to practice with his cleats and at the end of practice, he. One of my best friends tells me I can keep them. at the time at Olympique de Neuilly goes crazy with the crampons I tell him that if you like them so much, take them And I gave him Messi's crampons (laughs). “I was able to give Messi's crampons? I didn't know who it was, I was still little,” he explained.
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Marcus Thuram's incredible anecdote about Lionel Messi's shoes.
