Kobe Bryant’s passion for the game of basketball is second to none. The Los Angeles Lakers superstar has lived and breathed basketball ever since he was two-years-old, but it wasn’t the only passion the future Hall of Famer had while growing up in Italy as a child.
With Bryant’s 20-year career in the NBA coming to an end on Wednesday, one of the most popular and successful soccer teams in the world, FC Barcelona, paid tribute to one of their biggest fans. Barca released the following video on the team’s Twitter account on Tuesday:
Along with trying to follow in his father’s footsteps on the basketball floor in Italy, Bryant was also partial to futbol or soccer as it is called in the United States.