It wasn’t about the jersey. But it was.
Five years I traveled to Barcelona, Spain. My friends’ son, Matías, who was only two at the time, asked for a jersey from Barça—the popular team of La Liga in Europe. A rookie with regards to professional sports, I stopped at a store in the heart of the city in search of the jersey. With the little information that I had, Messi #10, I asked the salesperson for the smallest jersey available for the two-year-old and made the expensive purchase. Turns out it was the best money I had ever spent and would ever spend on official sports merchandise.
