Outrage At Leo Messi's Wedding Guests

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

If finding a suitable wedding gift for a mere mortal is a headache, what it must be like looking for a gift for the highest-paid footballer in the world.

Fortunately for the wedding guests of Lionel Messi and Antonella Roccuzzo, the couple resolved the dilemma by inviting them to make a donation to the Techo Foundation instead of giving them a gift.

"In order to transform our joy into an act of solidarity, instead of a gift we ask you for a donation to Techo", read the invitation to the wedding, which took place last June in Rosario, the hometown of the couple.

If you take into account that in the list of 260 guests there were millionaire athletes and stars of the show, surely those responsible for the Argentine foundation - which provides housing to low-income people - were rubbing their hands.

For his joy was in a well. At least for now.

As revealed by the entity on Wednesday in a statement collected by the Argentine press, so far it has reached a whopping nickel, in which they also noted that the deadline for receiving donations is still open.

According to the entity, the construction of a house in the 111 poor settlements in which it works costs them a little more than $ 1,000.

The low collection caused stupor in Argentina. "The data is striking and provokes outrage," said the newspaper Clarín, who noted that the footballer Gerard Piqué, Shakira's partner, spent $ 15,000 at the hotel casino where the nuptials took place.