Lionel Andrés Messi Cuccittini, known as Lionel Messi or simply “Lio”, is an Argentine footballer who was born in Rosario, Santa Fe Province, on June 24, 1987, and plays as a forward or right winger. He comes from a family with fewer economic resources, formed by his father, Jorge Horacio Messi, a factory worker, and his mother, Celia María Cuccittini, who works in various trades. His maternal grandmother, Celia Olivera, was the one who encouraged and motivated football as a professional career, for that reason in 1992, when he was 5 years old, he began his training as a footballer at the club.

Abanderado Grandoli, which was one of the formative teams of Rosario. In 1994, Lionel Messi went through the lower divisions of Newell’s Old Boys where he began to demonstrate his skill with the ball and won several national titles. At the age of 11, the player received a not very pleasant news, which was that he was diagnosed with a growth hormone deficiency, which made him do with the important attractions of football despite the great talent he had, however, this was not an impediment for Messi to continue with his aspirations of being a professional footballer.