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Known as Leo or Pulga, his immense quality was already on point when he was five years old and played for the neighborhood club in his hometown led by his father, an employee of the metal industry, and was reaffirmed when, starting at the age of seven, began playing in the lower divisions of Newell's Old Boys de Rosario.
At the age of 10, about to make the jump to the River Plate club in Buenos Aires, he was detected a delay in bone development caused by a low level of growth hormones; Medical treatment was very expensive, the clubs did not want to face it and his father, who did not have the necessary financial resources, decided then to emigrate to Barcelona with his family, where he had been presented with a job opportunity. In September 2000, Leo Messi carried out a test at F.C. Barcelona; coach Carles Rexach was amazed by his football talent and, in effect signing a contract on a paper napkin, as the anecdote tells us, he joined the club, which took over the treatment of the boy. Messi was then thirteen years old and was 1.40 tall.
From that moment on, Messi would train at La Masia, the training center of the Barça youth academy, where he went through the different categories (Infant A, Cadet B, Cadet A, Juvenil A, Barça C and Barça B) before reaching the first team, already in the era of President Joan Laporta. Although he took part in the friendly between FC Barcelona and FC Porto in the opening match of the Estadio do Dragáo (November 16, 2003), his official debut in the first division with the Barça shirt took place on October 16, 2004 in Montjuic, in the classic derby with the Spanish from Barcelona.
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