The historic image of a solidarity calendar of 2008 in which Lamine Yamal is seen, a baby of months in the arms of a young Leo Messi, was possible thanks to the work of the FC Barcelona Foundation under the presidency of Joan Laporta
The photo of baby Lamine Yamal in Leo Messi’s arms has become viral around the world. And even more after the stellar performance of the young Barça talent in the Eurocopa with the Spanish team.
Luck and coincidence lined up to make possible that magical moment at which a Barça legend of world football had in his arms a young talent from Barça called to follow his steps. A unique image that was possible thanks to an action carried out by the FC Barcelona Foundation. It was in 2008, during the first stage of the presidency of Joan Laporta.
The FC Barcelona Foundation and the Sport newspaper have been collaborating since 2004 on the edition of a solidarity schedule with the aim of raising funds for UNICEF and the Foundation projects. In 2008 the calendar aimed to publicize the different axes of the programs of the FC Barcelona Foundation aimed at comprehensive intervention in childhood and had the collaboration of the players of the first Barça team. At those times, he ran the entity Dra. Marta Segú, current CEO of the Foundation.
They were Barça and their Foundation, with the social entities he collaborates with, those who selected the players and boys and girls who appeared in the photos. The chance caused Leo Messi’s paths, which he was then 20, and Lamine Yamal, a few months old baby, to cross for the first time.
In that initiative, players who are part of FC Barcelona’s current sports structure such as Deco, sports director of the football area, Bojan Krkic, coordinator of the football area, or Rafa Márquez, a coach of the Atlético Barça. Xavi Hernández, ambassador of the Foundation, also appears.
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