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Lionel Messi family, wife, children, parents, siblings

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Lionel Andrés Messi born 24 June 1987, also known as Leo Messi, is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a forward for Ligue 1 club Paris Saint-Germain and captains the Argentina national team.

Lionel Messi  wife

Messi has been in a relationship with Antonela Roccuzzo, a Rosario native, since 2008. He has known Roccuzzo since he was five years old, as she is the cousin of his childhood best friend, Lucas Scaglia, who is also a football player.

Following a year of silence, Messi confirmed their romance in an interview in January 2009, before going public a month later during a carnival in Sitges following the Barcelona-Espanyol derby.

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Lionel Messi children

Messi and Roccuzzo have three sons: Thiago (born in 2012), Mateo (born in 2015), and Ciro (born 2018). To commemorate his partner’s first pregnancy, Messi placed the ball under his shirt after scoring in Argentina’s 4-0 win over Ecuador on 2 June 2012, before confirming the pregnancy in an interview two weeks later.

Thiago was born on November 2, 2012, in Barcelona. In April 2015, Messi confirmed that they were expecting another child. On 30 June 2017, he married Roccuzzo at the Hotel City Center in Rosario. In October 2017, his wife announced they were expecting their third child.

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Lionel Messi parents

Messi was born on June 24, 1987, in Rosario, Santa Fe, the third of four children to steel factory manager Jorge Messi and his wife Celia Cuccittini, who worked in a magnet manufacturing workshop.

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He is of Italian and Spanish descent on his father’s side, the great-grandson of immigrants from the northcentral Adriatic Marche region of Italy and Catalonia, and primarily of Italian ancestry on his mother’s side.

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Lionel Messi siblings

Lionel Messi is the third of four children born to Jorge Messi and Celia Mara Cuccittini. Rodrigo Messi, Lionel Messi’s oldest brother, is the first of the four children. Rodrigo Messi, Lionel Messi’s younger brother, was born on February 10, 1980.