Is football a discipline that can be elevated to the category of art? If who performs it is Leo messi, the answer is resoundingly yes, and that is how the National Art Museum of Catalonia (MNAC), that from this Friday exposes the boots with which the Argentine star beat the world record of goals (644) scored with only one club, Barça.
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The objective of the MNAC initiative is auction, next April, the boots and allocate the benefits to the program ‘Art and Health’. Adidas and Messi have donated to the Montjuïc museum the original boots with which the ’10’ Barça player surpassed the record held by Pelé with Santos. The goal, scored against Valladolid on December 23, was a worthy artistic exponent of football: a heel pass from Pedri, another Da Vinci from the budding ball, an exquisite control from Messi and a cross shot with his left foot, the brush with which he has composed his great work, out of reach of the goalkeeper.
The Barcelona museum has reported this Friday that the boots are already exposed and they will remain in the Oval Room for a month. “They will score one more goal,” says a statement from the MNAC, as they will help boys and girls with oncological diseases or other serious pathologies, as well as their families.
The MNAC will auction them and dedicate the profits to the ‘Art and Health’ program, a pioneering initiative that the museum has carried out since 2018 together with the Vall d’Hebron University Hospital and the Catalan Institute of Health. Through various projects, this program uses art as a therapeutic and preventive tool to help improve physical and emotional health of all citizens.
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For Messi, apart from the joy of reaching the historic milestone of scoring 644 goals for the same club, “the most important thing is to be able to give something back to the children who struggle with their health.” The footballer has expressed through a statement that he hopes that “the auction in April will generate a lot of awareness about this great cause.”
The ‘Art and Health’ program is part of the work that the MNAC develops to break barriers -social, economic, knowledge- and reinforce its social dimension, becoming a space for all minorities that make up social reality. If the first edition allowed working with women of diverse cultural origin (immigrants or refugees) who have post-traumatic stress disorder and who suffer from situations of social vulnerability, this year will be dedicated to improving the health and well-being of children with oncological diseases and other serious illnesses and their families, especially during their hospital stay.
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