Many people remember Messi’s words after the victory over Holland
Yesterday the name of the new Nobel Prize in Literature, the Norwegian writer and playwright Jon Fosse, was announced by the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, Mats Malm, at the institution’s headquarters in Stockholm.
Fosse succeeds French author Annie Ernaux, last year’s winner. But…what is the relationship between the Nobel Prizes in Literature and Leo Messi?
Well, it all happened at the World Cup in Qatar, when Leo Messi uttered the now viral phrase “what are you looking at, you fool”.
This phrase he uttered to his rival in the mixed zone while talking to the Argentine media.
An expression that quickly went viral on social networks to the point of discovering one of the most surprising coincidences in the history of soccer.
Well, one of the winners of the prestigious award was the Spanish writer Camilo Jose Cela in 1989. His most recognized work, La Colmena, published 72 years ago, was the prelude to Messi’s well-known phrase, which later led him to win his first World Cup.
As demonstrated in social networks, the user @CarlosMtnzAB who showed the text, where already in 1951 appeared identical the phrase that Messi waited in the last World Cup. “…And five years ago, from Mondonedo. Behind the thick glass, Dona Rosa’s eyes look like the astonished eyes of a stuffed bird.
“What are you looking at! What are you looking at! You fool! You’re just like the day you arrived! No one can take your hair out of the pasture! Come on, get a move on and let’s have the party in peace, if you were more of a man, I’d have had you out on the street by now!”
He also appeared in a 16th century monastery.
Those same words that Leo Messi said also appear written on a medallion of the monastery of San Julian de Samos (Lugo, Spain), a building founded in the sixth century that was rebuilt in the sixteenth century after a fire.
Its author was the stonemason, Pedro Rodrigues. Apparently, its author intended with these words to joke with visitors to urge them to go inside.
