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By: Catherine Espinal

former player for Fc Barcelona and the
national team of Argentina.[ Carlin, John.
"The global game." Time 175 (2010): 60-71.]

"Lionel Messi." Online Picture. World
Book Student. World Book, 2015.
Web. 20 Feb. 2015.

I’m sure that the men mentioned
throughout the magazine are full of
knowledge and deserve to be two of the
richest people in two of the greatest parts
of the world but there may be some that
don’t necessarily have all their money
maker strategies in their heads but their
feet.
Try imagining money in a form of a 5’7’’ 27
years old that growing up he had to deal
with the life struggle of having a sickness
that would stop him from growing. Yet
somehow found his way through making
many fall in love with him through the
magic his feet can create in a soccer field,
and become the wealthiest soccer player in
the world. Lionel Messi that is, he is a

If we were to describe the wealthiest
people in the world we would probably
think of a business man that owns many
capitals and was most likely born into a
wealthy family that had everything at the
tip of their hands but the truth is that not all
stories are as pretty as a Disney fairy tale.
Such thing proven by Messi himself, born
June 24, 1987 in Rosario, Argentina son of a
steel worker and a cleaner not necessarily a
family with a whole lot of money. And if
that was not enough at an early age he was
diagnosed with an illness named growth
hormone deficiency something that as the
name says would stop the young Messi
from growing like he was supposed to. We
would think that a kid that has an illness
would just let it bring him down and let his
dream shatter but that was not necessarily
the case, just like he was given the
disadvantage of his illness he was given on
of the biggest gifts, his two feet. You may
say yes we all have feet what is the big
deal? But not everyone takes note that
looking at Messi’s feet touches the ball,
shoot, and score was as if we were
watching two golden tickets that lead to
sweet success.
Soon enough young Messi joined a soccer
team whose coach was fairly familiar to him