ROSARIO: Rosario Food Bank president Nadia Nazer said on Thursday that Argentina national football team captain Lionel Messi donated all the leftover food and beverages from his wedding to charity in his native city.
Messi married his fiancée Antonella Roccuzzo in their home town of Rosario, Argentina, on June 30 with 260 guests in attendance, including some of the player’s Barcelona and Argentina teammates like Neymar, Luis Suarez and Sergio Aguero.
The Barcelona starlet made sure nothing went to waste after his wedding ceremony, said the president appreciating Messi for his kind gesture. “For us any type of donation is very well received and to be honest, we are very happy that they took us into consideration,” Nazer told a Rosario-based newspaper.
“One of the wedding organisers got in contact with our executive director, Pablo Algrain, to offer us snacks, soft drinks and alcoholic drinks. We told them that we had to exchange the alcoholic beverages for money as we cannot give them to institutions.” she added.
Messi and his wife Antonella also requested the guests attending the wedding ceremony to donate to Techo, an organization in South America and the Caribbean working to eradicate poverty, instead of buying them gifts in a message that reportedly said: “In order to transform our joy to an act of solidarity, in place of a gift, we ask you to donate to Techo.”
Techo communications director Florencia Drucker told the sources that they would prefer not to disclose the amount of donations they have received for now, because some donations are yet to arrive. He, however, hinted at close organisational ties with Messi and Antonella.
“They (Messi and Antonella) gave us the freedom to decide where to spend the money because they know our programs and that it will be used to give continuity to those projects.” said Drucker.
Messi currently heads a charity organisation to his name, Leo Messi Foundation and has served as United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) ambassador contributing occasionally to the cause.
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