A figure of the French National Team told an incredible anecdote with Lionel Messi: “I had not realized what had just happened”

French striker Marcus Thuram recently recounted the incredible anecdote with Argentine star Lionel Messi a few years ago when he was just a child. When the current Inter player was just 10 years old, he went to a practice at Barcelona, the team in which his father Lilian played at the time, and there he met Messi. At the end of the training session, all the boys who were present were invited to share a moment with the professional footballers.” One day I went to see my father at a training session. I wanted to go out on the field, like the rest of the kids, but I didn’t have the right boots. Messi, at about 19 or 20 years old, was the only one who could leave me a couple. I was 38 standing at the time, and he was 40-41,” Thuram said during an interview with DAZN. He added: “He gave me his, I played and then he told me ‘take them’. When I was 10 years old, I hadn’t realized what had just happened, so the next day I gave them to a friend. I regret it every day…”Marcus Thuram and the bond with his father LilianMarcus Thuram came very close to reaching the pinnacle of world football like his father, a world champion in 1998, but came within a whisker of the final that France lost on penalties to Argentina. “When he played in the 1998 World Cup final, he wasn’t even a year old. I understood who my father was when I was 11-12 years old, but when I see him I don’t think about what he did as a footballer: he’s my father and that’s it. I discuss the matches with him, he’s very demanding, but it’s better this way. Every time I leave a game happy because I scored a goal, he tells me ‘calm down, come to the car and I’ll explain a couple of things to you…'” confessed the 26-year-old attacker. 

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