2006/07 Barcelona Away La Liga Shirt Messi #19 (L)

Condition: 7/10 Good. Slight wear to the front of the collar. Some faint duplicate marks on the lower rear (from the #19)

Size: Adult XXL

Chest Measurement: 48-50 Inches / 122-127 CM

Manufacturer: Nike

Colour: Orange, blue & red trim

Material: Polyester

Seasons: 2006/2007

Player: Lionel Messi

Patches: La Liga

Official Nike Barcelona away football shirt from the 2006/07 season. Complete with Messi #19 on the back of the shirt in official lettering, and original embroidered La Liga patch on the sleeve.

This is Nike's 'plain' version of the jersey that did not feature a sponsor.

The condition of this classic football shirt is 7/10 - Good. Slight wear to the front of the collar. Some faint duplicate marks on the lower rear (from the #19) (see photos).

In the 2006–07 season, Messi established himself as a regular first team player, scoring 14 times in 26 matches. On 12 November, in the game against Real Zaragoza, Messi suffered a broken metatarsal, ruling him out for three months. On 10 March, El Clásico saw Messi in top form, scoring a hat-trick to earn 10-man Barcelona a 3–3 draw, equalising three times, with the final equaliser coming in injury time. 

In doing so he became the first player since Iván Zamorano (for Real Madrid in the 1994–95 season) to score a hat-trick in El Clásico. Messi is also the youngest player ever to have scored in this fixture. Towards the end of the season he began finding the net more often; 11 of his 14 league goals for the season came from the last 13 games.

Messi also proved the "new Maradona" tag was not all hype, by nearly replicating Maradona's most famous goals in the space of the single season. On 18 April 2007, he scored two goals during a Copa del Reysemi-final against Getafe CF, one of which was very similar to Maradona's famous goal against England at the 1986 World Cup in Mexico, known as the Goal of the Century. 

The world's sports press drew comparisons with Maradona, and the Spanish press labelled Messi as "Messidona". He ran about the same distance, 62 metres (203 ft), beat the same number of players (six, including the goalkeeper), scored from a very similar position, and ran towards the corner flag just as Maradona did in Mexico 21 years before.