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...
