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Leo Messi: "It is good for sport that Madrid is awarded the games"

Olympics - 04 Sep 2013
   
Buenos Aires, 3 September 2013 - The number of national and international sportspeople supporting Madrid’s Olympic dream grows everyday.

Football player, Leo Messi is the latest athlete to give his support to Madrid 2020.  Immediately on landing in Buenos Aires today, the football star said. “I think Madrid’s Bid offers many great possibilities for the city and for demonstrates Spain’s passion for all sports”.

“I think it is good for sport if Madrid is awarded the Games - not only for the city, but also for the top-level athletes in Spain”, stated Messi, who wore the Madrid 2020 T-shirt and raised a flag of the Spanish Bid. “It is very important to host the Olympics in the country where I live. I was very lucky to participate in the Olympics for Argentina and it is an amazing experience for all athletes.”

For Alejandro Blanco, President of Madrid 2020 and the Spanish Olympic Committee (SOC), Leo Messi’s support is particularly significant. Blanco reiterated that “Leo Messi never refused to support the Madrid Bid” and hopes that this will put an end to the controversy after several press releases regarding Messi’s absence in a video supporting the Spanish capital’s bid. “There was a problem of availability, because he was training when the promotion was shot”, explained the president of the SOC. “It is a great honour for us to have Messi’s personal support especially for what he stands for as a sportsman, for his sport  nd as a person”, Blanco said.

Messi’s message adds to the support expressed by many of the key players in Spanish sport, as well as the support offered by the main football clubs in Argentina; Boca Juniors and River Plate.

Barcelona’s player has just arrived in Argentina, where he will join the country’s national team to play a match against Paraguay next Wednesday. At the sporting ground of the AFA (Argentine Football Association) in Ezeia, Messi was keen to pose with a Bid flag and a T-shirt, which symbolizes his support for Madrid’s Olympic dream, a support shared by the Argentine Football Association, headed by its President Julio Grondona.

For further inquiries, please contact:
Sandra Serrano
International Communications Department
Madrid 2020 Bid Committee
Phone: +34 91  1922020
aserrano@madrid2020.es
www.madrid.es
www.facebook.com/madrid2020
@Madrid2020ES
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