The article says: he wears a barcelona shirt with messi's number 10 on it. "i want to be like messi and play for barcelona," he said. the author uses this passage mostly to the reader a know that some kids don't understand how hard it is to break into professional football b understand that benjamin palandella wants to train in spain instead of argentina c know that ramón maddoni's drills have many other kids become star players d understand that benjamin palandella wants to be a star player someday and what didn’t came on the picture is there are hundreds of clubs like parque in buenos aires alone. there are thousands of talented kids. only a few will become top players.