Iniesta’s late
Barcelona winner at
Chelsea in 2009 led to spike‘Has your mum shown you the goal?’ he asks one 10-year-oldLionel Messi rolled the ball into the path of Andrés Iniesta and, suddenly, there was life. Quite literally. It was 6 May and it wasn’t just the players running into each others’ arms. Nine months after Iniesta’s famous last-minute goal at Stamford Bridge in the 2009
Champions League semi-final, there was a spike in the birth rate in Catalonia; 11 years after it, the Spaniard has marked the occasion by calling some of those children to say hello.
From lockdown in
Japan, Iniesta made surprise video calls to two 10-year-olds born in
Catalonia in late January 2010. Not so much happy birthday, perhaps, as happy conception day – although that did not come up in discussion.