Lionel Andrés Messi Cuccittini
Lionel Messi was born on June 24, 1987 in the city of Rosario, in the province of Santa Fe. He is the son of Jorge Horacio Messi and Celia María Cuccittini, whose father's family is originally from the Italian municipality of Recanati. His great-grandfather, Angelo Messi, immigrated to Argentina in 1883. His maternal grandmother, who encouraged him to dedicate himself to soccer and whom he thanks after turning a goal, was called Celia Olivera de Cuccittini (26/5 / 1930-8 / 5 / 1998). He has two brothers, Rodrigo and Matías, and a sister, María Sol.69 Two of his cousins (Maximiliano and Emanuel Biancucchi) are also footballers.
With just five years, Messi took his first steps in the flagship club Grandoli, located in the Grandoli neighborhood, south of Rosario, a few blocks from his home. The club was run by his father and his first coach was Salvador Aparicio. He later played some games with Central Córdoba. In 1994, he began training in the lower divisions of Newell's Old Boys, a club with which he obtained, among other titles, the "Machine of the 87", the Friendship Cup of Peru in 1997. At age 11, he was diagnosed with growth hormone deficiency.80
In August of 2000, Messi went to Buenos Aires to test itself to River Plate, and was accepted by the recruiter Federico Vairo who requested his contracting, but this never materialized. The reason why he did not continue in the institution was not clarified, versions ranging since River and Messi's parents did not reach an agreement for the cost of hormonal treatment to others that indicate that the parents did not want to leave Messi alone in the pension in Buenos Aires and required that they be granted a home and a job. On September 3, at age 13, he gave his first interview to a media outlet in the supplement 'Pasion Rojinegra' of the newspaper La Capital de Rosario.
On September 17, 2000, from a flight from Buenos Aires with a stopover in Madrid, he arrived with his father at El Prat. He was waiting for them at the Horacio Gaggioli terminal, a representative associated with the office of Josep Maria Minguella, the only relative in Lerida. was the great initial support for the family. "All I did was call Carles Rexach and ask him to give that boy a try," Minguella just confirmed.8 As soon as he landed, Gaggioli drove them to the hotel, right in front of the Camp Nou where Messi slept first time in Barcelona.8 He was summoned to participate in a first training the day after his arrival on September 18 with the infantile team, although he was not able to carry out the prescriptive tests to enter the base soccer azulgrana due to the absence of Rexach , responsible for the quarry at that time
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