Carles Rexach played for Barca from 1965 to 1981 and saw Cruyff flourish firsthand. He would later become Cruyff’s assistant after the legendary attacking midfielder moved to the dugout, ...

Carles Rexach and Eladio Silvestre were a young winger and a veteran full-back during a challenging period for FC Barcelona in the sixties and seventies. They recently.

Carles Puyol. While most of the ... If Ronaldinho was Lionel Messi’s mentor during his early days as a professional at Barcelona, then Carles Rexach can lay claim to having discovered him.

“In Barcelona, on 14 December 2000 and in the presence of Messrs Minguella and Horacio, Carles Rexach, FC Barcelona’s sporting director, hereby agrees, under his responsibility and regardless ...

Gaggioli first brought Messi to the attention of Carles Rexach and Josep Minguella, another agent, who together arranged for Messi to try out for the club a few months prior to the signing.

Rexach took a napkin instead and penned a contract that a few days later would be signed by a notary. “In the presence of Messrs. Minguella and Horacio (Gaggioli), Carles Rexach, ...

The napkin was signed in December, 2000 when Carles Rexach, then Barca's sporting director, agreed with agent Horacio Gaggioli to recruit the Argentine teenager who went on to become the club's ...

Carles Rexach, the former sporting director at Barcelona, had signed the napkin, along with Messi’s then-agent Horacio Gaggioli, who is responsible for putting together the teenaged prodigy ...

The commitment to a contract was written in blue ballpoint pen by Carles Rexach, the then sporting director of Barça, on the 6.5 x 6.5 inch napkin.

“In Barcelona, on 14 December 2000 and the presences of Messrs Minguella and Horacio, Carles Rexach, FC Barcelona’s sporting director, hereby agrees, under his responsibility and regardless of ...

The napkin reads: ‘In Barcelona, on 14 December 2000 and the presence of Messrs Minguella and Horacio, Carles Rexach, FC Barcelona’s sporting director, hereby agrees, under his responsibility ...

Minguella and Horacio, Carles Rexach, technical secretary of FC Barcelona, hereby agrees under his responsibility and against some dissenting opinions to sign the player Lionel Messi, provided ...