Lionel Messi's wife: the best photos of Antonella Roccuzzo

Lionel Messi's a living soccer legend. He shines in each of his presentations in Barcelona and date to date breaks all kinds of records. To be in the world elite and be considered one of the best players of all time, it is also important to have a stable partner who supports you not only in happy moments, but also in bad moments. And she's Antonela Roccuzzo, his lifelong girlfriend and with whom he has been married for a couple of years. 

How many children does Messi have with Antonela?

Antonela Rocuzzo's the mother of Messi's three children. The couple got married on June 30, 2017 in Rosario after more than nine years of relationship. The relationship became official in 2008, although the two have known each other since they were 10 years old when the footballer still lived in Rosario and his meteoric rise in Barcelona had not begun. After four years together, Thiago was born and 3 later Mateo was born. In 2018 Ciro arrived.

How did Messi and Antonela Roccuzzo meet?

It was around 1996 and on the banks of the Paraná River, when Lio Messi, Lucas Scaglia and Antonela Roccuzzo (their friend's cousin) began to spend a lot of time together in the city where they were born. Lio was 9 years old and Anto, 8. She, daughter of José and Patricia, owners of the Único de Rosario supermarket chain, conquered him from the earliest childhood. They say that he wrote her letters assuming that one day they would be her boyfriends. And they already had one in common: sport. She, fond of sports gymnastics, spent six hours a day training at the Gimnasia y Esgrima Club, until she abandoned the practice in adolescence. Lio stood out in the lower Newell's and the coaches began to cast their dazzled eyes on the future Ballon d'Or: was it possible that she had such mastery of the ball?

The years passed, Antonela studied at the Latin American Educational Center in Rosario, and during those times, they continued to be very close, until Messi's trip to Barcelona to develop his football career, in 2000, separated them. for a time. A sea divided them and they remade (or made) their lives, she dated a Rosario for three years, while Lio strove to give the best to his incipient career as number one.

But they were only away from each other for a while. It was a tragic event (at 17 years old) that brought them back together: the death of a friend of Antonella's in a fatal traffic accident. Lio traveled as fast as he could and from that moment - they say - they did not separate more emotionally, although they did physically. Messi had to return to Spain.

They say in the circle closest to Antonella that she officially recognized the relationship on July 20, 2007 (a Friend's Day), when she gathered her confidants at a property owned by the Roccuzzo family in the south of Rosario: yes, she was dating. his childhood friend and now renowned footballer

The best photos of Antonela Roccuzzo