Background

Child playing street football with his brothers, Matias and Rodrigo, and his cousin Tomi. He was nicknamed the Flea by his small stature. With five years starting in Grandoli, a small team of his neighborhood coaching his father.

In 1995, he went on to train in the lower echelons of Newell's Old Boys, the club with which he won the Friendship Cup in Peru in 1997. At eight years old he was diagnosed with deficienciaen growth hormone, which prevented him from having a physical development Normal. The treatment was very expensive and their parents could not afford it. Leo Messi was discovered by FC Barcelona. He left the Newell's Old Boys of Rosario to travel to Europe with his family, where the Catalan club expenses you paid for your hormonal disease ($ 900 per month). For several years he received two injections of growth hormone helping to grow 23 centimeters daily. Finally, it was as high as 1.70 centimeters tall and spends a size 40 feet.