{"id":790,"date":"2016-07-01T20:29:12","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T20:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.icons.com\/news\/?p=790"},"modified":"2016-07-04T15:03:26","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T15:03:26","slug":"anatomy-of-an-icons-signing-behind-the-scenes-with-footy-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.icons.com\/news\/2016\/07\/01\/anatomy-of-an-icons-signing-behind-the-scenes-with-footy-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Anatomy of An Icons Signing: Behind The Scenes With FOOTY.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Earlier this year we invited our friends from the football price comparison site FOOTY.com<\/a> to come with us to a signing with one of the world’s best footballers. It just so happened that player was Barcelona<\/a>‘s Argentinean<\/a> superstar and global phenomenon Lionel Messi<\/a>. From the\u00a0FOOTY.com\u00a0blog<\/a>, here’s what Michael Lowdon\u00a0thought of one our sessions with the world’s best…<\/strong><\/p>\n

As I drove down the A1 in torrential rain to\u00a0FOOTY.com<\/a>\u00a0HQ, another wet day in the North East lay ahead. Or so I thought. By 10pm I was in Barcelona, enjoying a warm night, as the atmosphere of the UEFA Champions League<\/a> clash with Atletico Madrid spilled out of the Nou Camp and onto the city’s streets. Our friends over at Icons.com had given us an invite to join them in the Catalan capital to get an insight into the workings of a player signing session. The player in question: Mr\u00a0Lionel Messi<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Home of one of the best club sides in the history of the game, with arguably the greatest player to have kicked a football, the journey to the airport required regular pinching.<\/p>\n