Messi got his 1st Barca contract on a napkin
Lionel Messi, at the age of 13, was awarded his first informal contract for Barcelona on a table napkin by their Technical Secretary Charly Rexach in 2000. Messi was suffering from growth hormone deficiency at the time and Barcelona agreed to pay £80,000 for his treatment. "I’ll go down in Barcelona’s history", Rexach later said on offering Messi a contract.