It was an amazing time,” Lionel Messi recalled. My grandmother came back and told him, ‘Buy him football boots, I’ll bring him to training next week’ - and that’s when I started. “Apparently when I went in, I did some things. The coach, however, was concerned with Lionel Messi’s small physique at the time and was afraid that he might get hurt playing against boys one year senior to him.īut Leo’s grandmother was a persistent woman and eventually got her way. The ‘86 team’, a team one year older than me, was playing and they needed a player - so my grandmother told the coach 'put him in the team',” Lionel Messi reminisced during an interview. “One of my brothers or cousins was playing and we used to go there (to the Grandoli club) every day. Interestingly, Leo’s doting grandmother, Celia Olivera Cuccittini, had a big role to play behind the move. Lionel Messi joined his first club Grandoli, a local neighbourhood establishment near his house in Rosario, when he was five years old. Lionel Messi’s teams Yearsīorn in the city of Rosario, in Argentina’s Santa Fe province, Lionel Messi was introduced to football at an early age and used to play with his elder brothers and cousins growing up. Taking into account the two Argentinian youth clubs he played, Lionel Messi has only played for four clubs in his career - a number quite low for modern-day footballers who end up playing for several clubs over the course of their career.
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However, over the course of his 19-year-long professional career, Lionel Messi has only graced two clubs, FC Barcelona and Paris Saint-Germain (PSG). After all, the Argentinian, a record seven-time Ballon d’Or winner, is one of the best players of all time. There’s not a single football team in the world which wouldn’t want to have Lionel Messi on its roster.
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