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By: Catherine Espinal surprisingly being his father and started to share was his passion was. The love and magic he projected to everyone was enough to make many interested on what he could bring to them in the future and quickly showed their interest by contacting him and his family. Yet who really is willing to pay for treatment for a kid they don’t really know might be able to project his talent later on in the future when he would be given the opportunity to represent a team? Fc Barcelona that is, this team was the only super hero their family believed on now an angel sent from heaven. All the club asked for was for him and his family to move to Barcelona where little did they know Messi’s journey would begin. As some say “If you want to be rich just count the things money can’t buy” and that sure is a motto Messi could adapt to. We have taken time digging into the past of a legend but why not celebrate the accomplishments that money hasn’t bought him but his sweat has. Other than being the wealthiest soccer player in the world Messi has created history by being named the world’s best soccer player by being granted the Ballon De Or’ not once, not twice, but four consecutive years something that many would only dream of. Also adding to the collection of achievements being named the youngest Argentinean to play in the World Cup, and leading not only his club team to winning some important trophies but being so close to naming his country the best in the world in the recent World Cup. Leaving all his professional life aside, we could assume that if we were to consider Messi as an emotional guy and take in all the photos he decides to post on social media he would consider himself to be one of the richest people in the world because he has the opportunity grow old and share his success with his give and small son two people that he constantly shows are the light in his life. Milbert, Neil. "Messi, Lionel." World Book Student. World Book, 2015. Web. 20 Feb. 2015. "Leo Messi (@leomessi) • Instagram Photos and Videos." Instagram. N.p., n.d. Web. 20 Feb. 2015.