Hernán Galíndez, Huracán goalkeeper, remembered his crosses with Leo Messi when they were both children and the Argentine star played in Newell’s. “We faced each other many times,” when Galíndez played for the lower divisions of Rosario Central and La Pulga, in Newell’s. And he revealed the nickname that the current Inter Miami player had as a child: “His name was. They always called him ‘The Colorado who plays with the 10’. If you heard that, you started 3-0 down.”
Galíndez coincided in some games with the Inter Miami star and in an interview with ESPN, he says: “He was a beast. There are videos that can be seen and it was that way. It was striking that, at that age, someone handled the ball like that.” The goalkeeper, 38 years old and former Universidad Católica (Chile) and Rangers (Scotland), explains: “He played for the Abanderado Grandoli club, which was very close to my house and my grandparents’ house. We crossed paths there. In fact, the first memory I have as a goalkeeper, of a goal, was scored by him. He dribbled past five teammates, including me.”
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On the other hand, Galíndez, who plays for the Ecuadorian national team, stressed that having faced the 10 “as an adult” fills him with “pride” and recalled that they changed the shirt after Argentina’s 1-0 victory against Ecuador at the Monumental: “My son, who is 8 years old, told me ‘I want Messi’s shirt’. I explained to him that it was difficult. I told Leo Campana (Messi’s teammate at Inter Miami) to bring me a shirt. Then “They didn’t summon him to the game, but he told me to talk to him after the game and that I could change the shirt.”
