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.