The regatist, who won a gold medal in Rio 2016, and the Barcelona crack, Olympic champion in Beijing 2008, shared a meeting during today's practice of the Catalan team (Photo La Nación, Argentina)

The training of the first team of the Football Club Barcelona this Thursday had an unexpected visitor in the figure of the Argentine Olympic gold medal Santiago Lange. Messi was particularly pleased with the visit of the sailing world star, and asked her for her autograph in her T-shirt of Argentina's national Olympic football team, with which she won the gold medal in Beijing 2008.

Santiago Lange (born 22 September 1961) is an Argentine naval architect and regatist. He began to stand out in 1976 when he proclaimed himself the national champion of Argentina of the Optimist class. He later won four absolute world championships: three in the Snipe class (1985, 1993 and 1995) and one in the Tornado class (2004). He won the Olympic gold medal in the category Nacra 17 with Cecilia Carranza Saroli at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro 2016 and two bronze medals in the Tornado class with his teammate Carlos Espinola at the 2004 Athens and Beijing Olympics 2008. In addition, he won two silver medals at the Pan American Games (1983 and 1987), two European championships Europe Gold Cup (1982 and 1983), the Trophy His Royal Highness Princess Sofia in 1986 and 1987 and six South American championships in various classes (MiniTon -1978-, Snipe -1985-, Europe -1989-, Laser -1996- and Tornado - 1997, 1999-). Lange studied Naval Architecture at Southampton University. As a naval architect, he is a designer of the Optimist Lange sailboats, which began to be built in 1987, seven times winners of the world cup, whose production is made in Argentina, Denmark and the United States 1 and the Snipes Persson- Lange, in Chile.