He also missed three months of the following season with a broken metatarsal but the second half of the 2006-07 campaign was when he truly came of age. He shone even in a Barcelona team boasting the ilk of Ronaldinho and Samuel Eto’o but missed the successful conclusion to Barca’s UEFA Champions League run having had his season ended prematurely by a thigh injury.
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He was in the first team by 17 and a full international the following year.
Messi tried out for Barca and the club was so impressed it agreed to pay for his medical treatment.īarca is now receiving enormous return on its investment after Messi rose through the youth ranks to the very top.
His parents could not afford it but after some tentative signs of awareness in Messi’s talent from Barcelona, they decided to move to Spain. He showed all the signs of having a promising footballing career ahead of him but at the age of 11 he was diagnosed with a growth hormone deficiency that required expensive treatment. He played at a club called Grandoli, which was coached by his father, from the age of five and later moved to Newell’s Old Boys. Messi was born in Rosario, Argentina, and showed a great aptitude for football as a child. Yet, Messi’s story could have ended before it begun had Barca not taken him under its wing at an early age. That is a difficult tag to carry, but so far he has borne it well. Barcelona is reaping the benefits of his growing maturity on the highest stage and at home in Argentina he has become the latest player to earn the moniker of ‘the new Maradona’.
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