Nowadays, Lionel Messi is widely regarded as the best footballer in the world, even if he will be 33 years old this year.<\/p>\n
But not many have seen how Messi plays during his younger days. Not with Barcelona, but when he is still in Argentina, and he is only 12 years old at the time.<\/p>\n
Messi played for Newell’s Old Boys in forward position.<\/p>\n
https:\/\/youtu.be\/Nx1IHsn5pC0<\/p>\n
It could be one of the many videos that made through its way to Barcelona, and one of the reason they decided to sign him a year later.<\/p>\n
The rest is history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Nowadays, Lionel Messi is widely regarded as the best footballer in the world, even if he will be 33 years old this year. But not many have seen how Messi plays during his younger days. Not with Barcelona, but when he is still in Argentina, and he is only 12 years old at the time. Messi played for Newell’s Old Boys in forward position. https:\/\/youtu.be\/Nx1IHsn5pC0 It could be one of the many videos that made through its way to Barcelona, and one of the reason they decided to sign him a year later. The rest is history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":34968,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2665,3053],"tags":[395,394,3718,252],"class_list":["post-34966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","category-laliga","tag-barcelona","tag-lionel-messi","tag-newells-old-boys","tag-slider"],"yoast_head":"\n