One of the best players in the history of American basketball league is fan of football and stated that he would like to meet the star of Barcelona. "I love football and I hope you can hear," he confessed.
The Los Angeles Lakers guard and took photos with Kun Agüero during a luncheon in the dining room of the villa. Now going by La Pulga.
At the Beijing Olympic village can generate a large gathering of world sport: the star Argentine soccer star Lionel Messi and the U.S. NBA Kobe Bryant.
It was stated publicly that Bryant unconditional follower of the player from Barcelona and when the news service of the Games asked him if he had any athlete who would like to know, in a perfect Italian replied: "Yes, yes, of course: Messi" .
The escort also Los Angeles Lakers confessed his passion for the sport king, "inculcada in the years he spent in Italy while his father, Joe" Jellybean "Bryant, played in several basketball teams in the Italian league. "I love football, I love football and I hope you can hear", topped Bryant, who went last year and a training team Barca in the Nou Camp, while on vacation in Barcelona.
It would be a meeting between Olympic stars to be in the medallero Beijing 2008: Bryant next to the "Dream Team" of the United States will try to recover gold, in the hands of the selection argentina, and Messi will seek to hold together the team of Chechen Batista, presea golden obtained in Athens.
Every four years, cites this world produces changes in the behavior of some athletes who are transformed into what is often uncomfortable: their fans. Those who are more accustomed to being photographed claimed not hesitate to take the maximum now in session from sports stars to portray them with some admired colleague.
Rafael Nadal, the world number one, acknowledged that attitude when asked if he had asked someone photographed together: "This same Sunday, I asked one by Phelps," the great American swimmer who could become the great figure of these games, for the moment already has two gold medals hanging on his neck.
In the meantime, the star of the NBA already has photos with Sergio Agüero, with whom was found in the dining room of the Olympic village during a luncheon.
But Bryant not only admires the Argentine kid. The very Diego Buonanotte, deputy natural footballer Rosario, admitted that it welcomes the chance to play alongside Lionel and said: "I am amazed, is impressive. This is the first time you see it from so close. When you have more confidence I am going to request a T-shirt, "he said with the freshness of his own 20 years.