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Omar Flores Aldana | ESPedieNtes Jul 21, 2023, 03:14 p.m. Reading: 5 min.
The day Messi’s friends amazed the Estadio Azul
In 2011, the Argentine star participated in an exhibition game where he shone before the stars of the world.
The Government of Quintana Roo delivered a check for $100,000 to the Messi Foundation, one year before the exhibition match that was held in the entity
Robert Borge promised that it would lead Lionel Messi to play Quintana Roo. On December 30, 2011, the Leo Messi Foundation received two transfers for a total of 91 thousand 11 dollars (one million 265 thousand 57 pesos at the exchange rate of that day, according to the Official Gazette of the Federation), by the authorities of the southern state of the Mexican Republic, in exchange for some “Sports Clinics” and to guarantee a match in the territory of that entity.
The former governor of Quintana Roo ‘presumed’ he was a friend of Messi. He was on March 8, 2011 in the Champions League game between Barcelona and Arsenal, at the time that the Argentine was the figure of the Catalan club, and he visited him in the first game that the current footballer of the Inter Miami played in Mexicoat the Ciudad de los Deportes Stadium, on July 31, 2011. On June 16, 2012, they met again in Cancun, in the commitment with which he fulfilled his promise to play in Quintana Roowhen almost a year before Robert Borge He handed him a check for $100,000, which would be paid out of the public treasury.
The symbolic delivery of a check for 100,000 dollars (one million 160 thousand pesos at the exchange rate of July 31, 2011) was made by the former governor of Quintana Roo, Roberto Borge, precisely in the Ciudad de los Deportes Stadium, during the match of the friends of “Messi”. With that, he guaranteed the visit of the Argentine star to Quintana Roo territory a year later. The money was collected until December 30, 2011, through the two aforementioned transfers, and due to the variation in the exchange rate during the year, the amount received by the messi foundation it was 91 thousand 11 dollars.
That same day, July 31, 2011 at the then Azul stadium, Lionel Months he received three other donations in favor of his foundation, two from private companies, and another delivered by a representative of the government of Mexico City, Mario Delgado; They totaled $75,000.
During Messi’s visit to Mexico to play an exhibition match, he received four donations for his foundation.Imago7
“On behalf of the State Government, I deliver to the messi foundation 1 million 160 thousand pesos so that the Messi’s friends play a game next year to benefit the DIF Quintana Roowhich through the sale of tickets would obtain resources for social works in the State (sic)”, reported the state government, through a bulletin on July 31, 2011.
According to documents consulted by ESPNhe government of Quintana Roo signed a “Coordination Agreement” with the messi foundation to carry out sports clinics in the entity, for which he made two transfers, in the HSBC bank, for a total amount of 91 thousand 11 dollars (one million 265 thousand 57 pesos with one cent), despite the fact that Robert Borge delivered a check for 100,000 dollars (one million 160 thousand pesos at the exchange rate of July 31, 2011) prior to the game that took place at the Estadio Azul.
“Coordination Agreement, entered into on July 5, 2011, between the Government of the Quintana Roo State and the Foundation LEO MESSIconstant of three useful pages on one side, FIVE: Check number 159423, dated December 30, 2011 from HSBC in favor of the Foundation LEO MESSIconstant of a useful page on one side, SIX: Check number 0159422, dated December 30, 2011 from HSBC in favor of the Foundation LEO MESSI, constant of a single-sided useful sheet and SEVEN: Document called ‘Sports Clinics Granted by the Foundation Leo Messi’year 2011, signed by C. José Luis Irizzont Marrufo, Director of Administration of the Commission for Youth and Sports of Quintana Rooconstant of a useful sheet on one side”, can be read in documents held by ESPN.
The “Sports Clinics” were not carried out
According to the press reports of the visit of Lionel Messi a Quintana Rootwo “Sports Clinics” were scheduled, contemplated in the “Coordination Agreement”, which were not held in the event that received the name of “Copa Mundo Maya 2012”.
“Lionel Messi did not comply with the schedule agreed with the organizers of the 2012 Maya World Cup and left dozens of fans stranded,” reported the reform groupon June 16, 2012. “Messi cancels clinic and CRIT”, reported the Mexican newspaper The reporteramong others.
A clinic was contemplated in the CRIT of Quintana Roo and another at the Iberostar hotel, which is in the entity, but the footballer did not attend. It was promised that the profits from the party of Messi and his friends, which was held at the Andrés Stadium Quintana Roo they would be used to obtain resources for the benefit of “social works in the State”.
Tickets for that game were priced between 86 dollars (1,200 pesos) and up to 287 dollars (four thousand pesos).
Messiafter his visit to Cancun, Quintana Rooreturned to Barcelona, a team with which he played until 2021, to later have a stint at PSG in France and on July 15, 2023 sign with Inter Miami. His debut is expected to be against a Mexican team, Cruz Azul, in the Leagues Cupon July 21 of this year.
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