PARIS -- Seb and Ben had been waiting since 5 a.m. They were the first ones to arrive, and the two die-hard Paris Saint-Germain fans, who have had season tickets for years, had an idea to kill two birds with one stone on the greatest day of their lives, as they put it: the day Lionel Messi would be unveiled as a PSG player.
One would be at the front of the queue at the club shop, located just opposite the main entrance of the Parc des Princes, to make sure they got their "Messi 30" shirts with his official squad number.