Lionel Messi received the most beautiful Cup of all, the long-awaited one and the one he kissed twice after receiving the award for best player at the Qatar 2022 World Cup, next to the Emir of Qatar (the one who placed the bisht on of her) and held her up in front of his companions to shout to the world that Argentina was again world champion. And that cup today is far from Argentina.
As always happens, after the coronation ceremony, FIFA gives the champion a gold-plated replica called the “World Cup Trophy”, the one that arrived in Argentina and that Messi showed during the Tuesday caravan, for example.
The original
The replica was made by GDE Bertoni, the Italian laboratory that manufactures the trophies, the same one that produced the original cup, 36.5 centimeters high and weighing 6.17 kilos, made with five kilos of 18-karat gold and with a 13-centimeter diameter base with two concentric rings of malachite.
And the Cup that Messi raised is in the aforementioned GDE Bertoni workshop, which is located in Paderno Dugnano, an Italian city of 47 thousand inhabitants located in the province of Milan. The reason is that, after each tournament, the original trophy goes back to the said workshop to be reconditioned, before returning to Switzerland, where FIFA is based.
Source: Clarin
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