Long before Lionel Messi became the most decorated footballer of his generation, there was a childhood friendship in Rosario that quietly shaped his life away from the spotlight. His relationship with Antonela Roccuzzo did not follow a straight path.

La pareja se conoció de niños en el barrio y crearon una vida en conjunto hasta formar su familia de cinco.

Antonela Roccuzzo and Lionel Messi met through her cousin, one of Messi's teammates at Newell's Old Boys in Argentina.

Long before Lionel Messi became the most decorated footballer of his generation, there was a childhood friendship in Rosario that quietly shaped his life away from the spotlight.…