Journalist Àlex López has revealed the reason behind Sergiño Dest’s striking outfit more than six months after Lionel Messi’s departure from Barcelona. At the official event at the Auditori 1899, an event hall at the Camp Nou, the American international appeared in the uniform of the Chicago Bulls. At the same time, Messi himself wore a two-piece suit. Guest in the Catalan program La Porteria by BTV López reveals the reason behind the ‘deviant’ outfit during official moment.
Messi made the switch from Barcelona to Paris Saint-Germain last summer. On August 8, he took an emotional farewell to the club, the press and his teammates at an official ceremony. On the Sunday in question, the Catalan selection originally had a day off. Partly for that reason, however, Dest would not have been aware of the farewell moment that was planned.
According to López, Dest had decided to go to the beach on the day of Messi’s farewell. Reportedly, he had no idea of the commitments on the schedule and was therefore unreachable by the club. The first calls to Dest’s address went unanswered. When the former Ajax player eventually did answer, he was too late to go home to pick out another outfit. Then someone from the club would have picked up the right back from the beach to drive him to the club.
The images of Dest’s NBA outfit went viral immediately after Messi’s farewell. However, according to López, the Argentine has forgiven his teammate’s mistake with a smile and the two said goodbye with a hug.
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