The brazilian icon left the Camp Nou join in 2008 Milan and his colleagues Argentina has now revealed that he set aside the shirt months before his departure
Lionel Messi has shown that Ronaldinho told him his No.10 shirt months before the Brazilian left Barcelona in 2008.Ronaldinho occurred in Barcelona 2003 and bequeathed the iconic number of argentine midfielder Juan Roman Riquelme - who was sent on loan to Villarreal for two seasons.
The Brazilian star left after six years with the club, scoring almost 100 destinations in only slightly more than 200 performances.
Messi and has shown, in an interview with Barca TV that Ronaldinho promised him the no.10 shirt months before he announced he was leaving.
"Before leaving the club [Ronaldinho] from a couple of months in which he thought about things," said messi.
"He had it in his head that he made and he told me his number. I took it without looking at what he had done with the shirt. If I were you, I would not have taken it."
Messi has won 21 trophies with the no.10 on the rear side of the Barca Jersey, and a total of 26 with the Spanish giants, and four times the Ballon d'Or winner now has praised his former team-mate for its welcoming nature when he broke into the first team.
"Everyone greeted me in the wardrobe and [Ronaldinho] greeted me in a spectacular way," he said.
"That in the dressing room was not easy, but it has so much easier. I was very comfortable, by not only Ronnie the welcoming but all.
"who came from the [Barca] B was sitting on the other side [to the main group]. In the dressing room have a "U" and we were sitting before and it was a moment that [Ronaldinho] told me go to his side and the fact that I no longer required to be where I was more.
"It was a free space and it was Deco [and] Thiago Motta right there and he put me right next to you. I must admit that at the beginning it was hard.
"But he said not that I was well where i was until I in principle obliged to sit."
Ronaldinho was just as free of his former team members.
"He is a simple person, very relaxing and he sat by my side in the Wardrobe," he said. "We had the chance to a good and sincere friendship. He is a great man."
source: goal.com
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