Lionel Messi: Legend of Football

Lionel Messi — one of the greatest football players of all time. World champion, two-time Copa America winner, Olympic champion. Eight-time recipient of the "Ballon d'Or" and six-time recipient of the "Golden Boot". His name is known all over the world. Even the legendary Diego Maradona bowed to his talent.

Now he is a living legend of football. But once Leo was just an ordinary boy from the Argentine city of Rosario, who spent all day kicking a ball in the yard with his friends. At the age of 11, he was told that perhaps his dream of becoming a football player would never come true: doctors discovered he had a growth hormone deficiency, he was too small for this sport. A difficult and expensive treatment lay ahead, he was shorter and weaker than other boys, but he loved football so much that he never gave up for a minute… And he became the best of the best!