Lionel Messi, one of the most successful football stars of all time, shared with reporters that he is a very strict father with his three young sons.
Lionel Messi is a famous Argentine soccer star. As the captain of the Argentina national football team, Lionel Messi has had a brilliant career at the age of 35.
Widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time, Messi has won seven Golden Ball awards, six European Golden Shoes and in 2020, he was named in the European Dream Team. Golden Ball.
While playing for Barcelona, Messi won 35 titles with the club, including 10 La Liga championships, 7 Copa del Rey titles and 4 UEFA Champions League.
An excellent goalscorer and a creative player, Messi holds the record for scoring the most goals in La Liga (474 goals), most goals in a La Liga season and European competition (50), Most hat-tricks in La Liga (36), UEFA Champions League (8), most assists in La Liga (192)…
According to France Football, Lionel Messi has been the highest-paid football player in the world for 5 years and was ranked by Forbes magazine as the highest-paid athlete in the world in 2019 and 2022.
Messi was among Time magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world in 2011 and 2012. In February 2020, he received the Laureus award in the sports athlete of the year category. Lionel Messi owns assets of hundreds of millions of dollars.
Lionel Messi (Photo: Getty Images).
The Barcelona striker has been a goodwill ambassador for UNICEF for more than a decade and Messi believes that “inequality is one of the biggest problems of our society”, which needs to be solved as soon as possible .
Lionel Messi has tried to provide equal opportunities to children from all over the world by establishing his own foundation in 2007.
“Education is the foundation of everything,” Lionel Messi told Argentine magazine La Garganta Poderosa when asked about his views on solving global social problems.
“It took me 17 years and 114 days to achieve success that people say is ‘overnight’,” Messi shared in an interview, after being told that his success was due to pure talent, requires no effort and requires little hard work.
Lionel Messi claims it took him nearly two decades of training for a short, skinny boy from a working-class family in Rosario, Argentina to become the greatest soccer player in the world.
When Lionel Messi signed on as a global brand ambassador for a famous educational technology company , he shared, he wanted to promote equal education.
Lionel Messi said: “I chose to cooperate with the company because their mission is to make people love learning, which is completely in line with my perspective.
High-quality education changes lives and the company has changed the career paths of millions of students worldwide. I hope I will inspire young practitioners to rise and maintain a top position.”
Messi runs his own charity with the hope that all children have the same opportunity to realize their dreams.
Lionel Messi is someone who cares about equal education (Photo: Getty Images).
As a father of three adorable children, Lionel Messi revealed that he is a strict father with his three children.
The soccer star said he tries to make his three sons understand that they cannot take a comfortable life for granted. Opening up about his family life in an interview with an Argentinian journalist, the 35-year-old soccer star confessed: “Between me and my wife, I am the one who is stricter with our children.
My wife is a calm person, she spends the most time with her children because I often have to leave home to compete. My kids pay more attention to me because when I yell at them, sometimes I get a little too excited.
Lionel Messi with his wife and children (Photo: Instagram).
Actually, I try to teach my children to understand the value of everything so they understand that they will have to work to earn money every day and not think that they are lucky to be able to have many things easily.”
Lionel Messi admits his son Mateo, 7, is a reflection of him as a child. Messi added: “Mateo doesn’t want to lose anything. When he lost, he started arguing with his brothers. To avoid trouble, I let him win many times.”