Barça asks Competition to remove the yellow from Messi for his tribute to Maradona

Barcelona will present a letter to the Competition Committee in which it will expose the context in which Leo Messi took off his shirt and showed one of Diego Armando Maradona during the game against Osasuna to consider the possibility of its withdrawal. Sources of the Barcelona club assured EFE that will not present a brief of allegations, because “the rule is very clear”, and determines that it will be punished with a yellow card when a player takes off his shirt.

However, from the Barça club they have sent a letter to put in context the situation and Messi's tribute to Maradona with a Newell's Old Boys shirt, the Rosario club where Diego played and where Leo is from. It so happens that the shirt is a gift from Sergio Fernández, an Argentine judge who is a collector, who gave it to Messi in 2018 during the World Cup in Russia.

That shirt, which Messi showed after scoring 4-0 against Osasuna and which he wore under Barça's, It was the particular tribute of the ten of Barça to his compatriot, recently deceased. Maradona wore the shirt on the day of his debut at Newell's, curiously that day Messi, with just six years was in the stadium with his father, and Diego scored a goal very similar to the 4-0 signed by Leo against Osasuna.