The main two news today are the coup in Afghanistan and Messi’s transfer to PSG. We will leave the first topic alone, but we can talk about Lionel, after all, one of the main football players in history . People who are interested in football are very familiar with his career, but for others it is not so interesting. But Lionel Messi’s personal life may turn out to be much more interesting than his career.
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Children’s oath
Leo was born into a poor family in the town of Rosario. His mother worked as a cleaner in a supermarket that belonged to a fairly wealthy family. Messi was friends with the son of the store owner, and one day he invited the guy to his place. It was there, at the age of five, that Leo first saw Antonella Roccuzzo, with whom he immediately fell in love.
The boy made a vow to himself to take the girl as his wife, but the adults didn’t want to hear about it. There was too much of a gap between the two families. Nevertheless, the children met, Leo wrote her romantic letters, but soon all this faded into the background. The boy began to have health problems, and then Barcelona noticed his success in football and Messi left for Europe.
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Personal life of Lionel Messi
It was quite difficult to maintain contact with Antonella back then; messengers were not yet in use, so Leo took up his personal life from scratch. At first he started dating a young model, but his mother was categorically against it. But, probably, fame turned the football player’s head, and he continued to choose girls among models .
One of his girlfriends was the famous model Luciana Salazar, who starred for fashion magazines, including Playboy. Leo’s entire family was already against such an alliance, and he broke off the relationship. As a result, the footballer’s personal life did not go well. But by that time Antonella was already planning her wedding.
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An unexpected reunion
In 2007, Messi comes home to Argentina. And around the same time, Antonella’s close friend dies. Having learned about what happened, Leo goes to his first love to support, but feelings flare up again. Just a couple of days later, Antonella broke off relations with her fiancé.
There was no scandal, the young man understood everything. And later in an interview he even said that he was not against losing the girl to Lionel Messi himself. And the parents on both sides could not say anything against their union. Leo by that time was already a real star.
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Living together
But Leo was in no hurry to get married. In 2012, the couple had their first child, Thiago, three years later another son, Mateo, and only after that Messi finally decided to propose. In 2017, the couple had a high-profile wedding in their native Rosario. The city authorities met Leo halfway and even took the trouble to cleanse the city of dirt before the celebration.
After so many years of living together, we can say that Leo is an exemplary family man. A couple of times he turned out to be the main character in scandals, but his wife always stood up for him. So she sued for libel against a model who claimed that she was having an affair with Messi. It turned out that they were talking about a completely different football player.
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Lionel Messi’s personal life was a little less successful than his career. However, on both fronts he managed to receive the highest award: on the one hand, a loving wife and three children, and on the other, the Ballon d’Or and the status of a living legend.
