{"id":70,"date":"2014-10-06T11:31:28","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T11:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.icons.com\/news\/?p=70"},"modified":"2024-07-17T14:03:40","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T14:03:40","slug":"icons-official-messi-signed-merchandise-partner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.icons.com\/news\/2014\/10\/06\/icons-official-messi-signed-merchandise-partner\/","title":{"rendered":"Icons.com: Official Messi Signed Merchandise Partner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Icons first met Leo Messi on May 5th, 2006. Although Messi had made less than 30 appearances for club and country, Icons were convinced of his potential and made the signing happen.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icons.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Leo-Messi-Signing-Sessions-For-Icons.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"71\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.icons.com\/news\/2014\/10\/06\/icons-official-messi-signed-merchandise-partner\/leo-messi-signing-sessions-for-icons\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/icons.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Leo-Messi-Signing-Sessions-For-Icons.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"620,489\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Leo-Messi-Signing-Sessions-For-Icons\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/icons.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Leo-Messi-Signing-Sessions-For-Icons-300x237.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/icons.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Leo-Messi-Signing-Sessions-For-Icons.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-71\" src=\"http:\/\/www.icons.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Leo-Messi-Signing-Sessions-For-Icons.jpg\" alt=\"Leo-Messi-Signing-Sessions-For-Icons\" width=\"620\" height=\"489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icons.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Leo-Messi-Signing-Sessions-For-Icons.jpg 620w, https:\/\/icons.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Leo-Messi-Signing-Sessions-For-Icons-300x237.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today, eight years later, Messi is the biggest name in world football and has a glittering trophy cabinet to prove it. To date Messi has won six La Liga titles, three UEFA Champions League titles, two FIFA Club World Cup titles and four consecutive Ballon D&#8217;Or awards to name just a few.<\/p>\n<p>Despite all this, Messi claims &#8220;off the pitch I am just normal&#8221;. And he&#8217;s right. Humble, unassuming and polite, he is a pleasure to work with. On the pitch, however, he is unlike any footballer the world has ever seen.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Official Messi Signed Merchandise<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>On Friday 26th September, 2014 Icons saw Leo Messi yet again to sign a range of <a title=\"ICONS.com - Lionel Messi\" href=\"https:\/\/www.icons.com\/lionel-messi.html\">shirts, boots and photos<\/a> for us and his fans. Icons have also been working around the clock to launch the new Official Messi Signed Merchandise range.<\/p>\n<p>All Official Messi Signed Merchandise is created under license by Icons Shop Ltd and now comes with an Official Messi Signed Merchandise Certificate of Authenticity, which has an image of Leo signing the product line.<\/p>\n<p>The full range is only available on Icons.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Icons first met Leo Messi on May 5th, 2006. Although Messi had made less than 30 appearances for club and country, Icons were convinced of his potential and made the signing happen. Today, eight years later, Messi is the biggest name in world football and has a glittering trophy cabinet to prove it. To date&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more navbutton\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.icons.com\/news\/2014\/10\/06\/icons-official-messi-signed-merchandise-partner\/\">Read More<i class=\"fa fa-angle-double-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[331],"tags":[166,24,8,25,14,103,40,104,23,22,38,15,30,165,37,88,39,13,167],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","tag-autograph","tag-barca","tag-barcelona","tag-barcelona-fc","tag-football","tag-footballs","tag-icons","tag-legend","tag-leo-messi","tag-lionel-messi","tag-memorabilia","tag-messi","tag-messi-barca","tag-signed-memorabilia","tag-signed-shirt","tag-signed-shirts","tag-signing-sessions","tag-sport","tag-sports-memorabilia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfQcey-18","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14,"url":"https:\/\/www.icons.com\/news\/2015\/08\/11\/leo-messi-ten-years-an-icon\/","url_meta":{"origin":70,"position":0},"title":"Leo Messi: Ten Years An Icon","author":"Icons.com","date":"August 11, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Title after title, honour after honour, record after record, Barcelona and Argentina superstar Leo Messi has written his way into the history books as one of the greatest to ever play the game.\u00a0In that space of time, Messi has won four Champions Leagues, seven La Liga titles, three Spanish Cups\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Signing Sessions&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Signing Sessions","link":"https:\/\/www.icons.com\/news\/category\/signing-sessions\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Lionel-Messi-Signing-Session-Icons","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.icons.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Lionel-Messi-Signing-Session-Icons.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.icons.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Lionel-Messi-Signing-Session-Icons.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.icons.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Lionel-Messi-Signing-Session-Icons.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":219,"url":"https:\/\/www.icons.com\/news\/2015\/11\/27\/hes-back-lionel-messi-signs-for-icons\/","url_meta":{"origin":70,"position":1},"title":"He&#8217;s Back! 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