Barcelona's Sergi Roberto, collector of boots

Barcelona's Sergi Roberto, collector of boots

Sergi Roberto posó para SPORT con una fotografía histórica
Sergi Roberto posó para SPORT con una fotografía histórica | JAVI FERRÁNDIZ

The player keeps all the pairs of boots he's enjoyed special moments with at Barca

Sergi Roberto's boots, gaudy orange, illuminated Camp Nou when the game had already crossed the line separating reality from mircales. Barcelona were out, then they were alive. One touch from Roberto turned those boots into a collectors' item which, to this day, rests in Sergi Roberto's house. The player keeps them with care, conscious they are a unique treasure, one of the objects which serves to explain the recent history of Barcelona. "I remember that I hit it with the outside of the boot and a bit of the instep," he said.

Along with those boots there are other pairs that the Balugrana keeps to rememeber nearly 200 games with the first team. He likes to keep the ones which mean something, which he wore at important moments in his career. The boots that scored the sixth against PSG are just one of the pairs. 

For example, he also keeps the white boots he wore on November 10, 2010, when he debuted officially with Barca, in the Copa del Rey against Ceuta at Camp Nou. Another special pair are from the Santiago Bernabeu, the day Leo Messi struck to help Barcelona win 2-0 in the first leg of the Champions League semi-final. They are white with a yellow touch. 

And the boots which he scored his first goal for the first team are there too, on December 6, 2011, in a 4-0 win over Bate Borisov in the last group game of the Champions League that year. They are white too, with a blue touch.

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