Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Messi's travelled 120,000km in 64 days
Calculating the football matches and commercial commitments of the four times Ballon d’Or winner Madrid-based Diario AS has come up with the staggering figure of 122,333 km - that’s three times around the equator.
It goes some way to explaining why Messi has now been given two months to get back to his best.
The Barcelona No 10 went to 14 different countries on four continents in the summer, with charity commitments, benefit games and sponsorship appearances taking up almost as much time as playing for club and country.
He had already visited Africa, the US and Italy before reporting back for pre-season training and then went on Barça’s tour of the States and South-East Asia.
Before the season got going he also pulled on the famous number 10 shirt in Munich, Norway, Poland, Thailand and Malaysia and scoring five goals in five pre-season matches looked to have overcome injury problems that bothered him towards the end of last season.
It goes some way to explaining why Messi has now been given two months to get back to his best.
The Barcelona No 10 went to 14 different countries on four continents in the summer, with charity commitments, benefit games and sponsorship appearances taking up almost as much time as playing for club and country.
He had already visited Africa, the US and Italy before reporting back for pre-season training and then went on Barça’s tour of the States and South-East Asia.
Before the season got going he also pulled on the famous number 10 shirt in Munich, Norway, Poland, Thailand and Malaysia and scoring five goals in five pre-season matches looked to have overcome injury problems that bothered him towards the end of last season.
