La-Masia

Twenty-two-year-old midfielder Nico Paz has been making headlines recently with his outstanding performances for Italian club Como. He stunned fans with two goals and an assist in a 4-1 Champions League demolition of Manchester United. At this moment, a deeply emotional moment in Paz’s life has emerged involving the family of football superstar Lionel Messi. A photo recently circulated on social media shows Lionel Messi’s youngest son, Ciro Messi, sitting beside his father while wearing a...

There is a question that has followed Lionel Messi since he was barely tall enough to see over the advertising boards at Newell’s Old Boys, a question that never really goes away no matter how many trophies pile up in his cabinet. Why him? Why did a boy from Rosario, a modest city on the banks of the Parana River, grow into the player many now call the greatest to ever kick a football? The easy answers, talent, luck, timing, are not wrong, but they are not enough either. To understand why...