CarlesRexach, Barcelona’s technical secretary, held a meeting with 13 year old Messi on Dec. 14, 2000, at the Pompeia Tennis Club to determine the contract of this Argentinean. Carles was so impressed by young Messi, who came to the meeting with his father, that he wanted to sign him right that time. The entire technical team rushed to manage a contract paper, but the nearest available piece of paper was a napkin. Messi signed his first contract with Barca on that napkin, which reads “In Barcelona, on the 14th of December of 2000 and in the presence of JosepMinguella and HoracioGaggioli, CarlesRexach, FCB technical secretary, it commits under his responsibility and despite some views against it to sign the player Lionel Messi, as long as we remain within the amounts agreed upon.”