Lionel Messi and Argentina‘s hopes for the World Cup are well and truly alive. After a disappointing loss to Saudi Arabia, they came back and performed exceptionally against Mexico and Poland. They qualified top of their group and will face Australia in their round of 16 match-up. If Messi starts for Argentina against Australia, it will be his 1000th professional game.
👕 Lionel Messi in 999 professional games has a whopping 1136 goal contributions.
🏟️ 999-games
⚽️ 788-goals
🅰️ 348-assists🐐 The Greatest of all Time-GOAT#FIFAWorldCup|#Messi𓃵|#ARGAUS pic.twitter.com/HGemzghSzq
— FIFA World Cup Stats (@alimo_philip) December 3, 2022
Messi’s dating life has been public ever since he became the superstar of Barcelona. He is married to his long-time partner Antonela Roccuzzo and has three children. In 2011, one of Messi’s rumored former girlfriends spoke to a news outlet about a bizarre interaction she had with the ex-Barcelona player’s mother.
Did Lionel Messi date a 14-Year-Old?
When Messi was 18 years old, he was rumored to be in a relationship with then-14-year-old Macarena Lemos. She spoke to Telenoche and detailed the interaction she had with Messi’s mother. Lemos said she was in a market in Rosario with her aunt and mother. She then saw Messi’s mother following her around and taking her pictures. She also had a pan in her hand.
Macarena Lemos explaining what happened with Messi and his family. pic.twitter.com/AePyBHjZg9
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“I turned around and asked her what was going on, and that’s when she started insulting me. I have never come out and said whether I had slept with her son. He was 18 and I was 14- and I didn’t reveal anything about our relationship. She treated me like I was nothing as if I were hanging from her son’s ribs. She seems to think I said something to a magazine, but I never did. They are confused,” she concluded.
Lemos also revealed she would like to spend some time with Messi. She says her business with the Argentine national team’s captain is incomplete. In the same interview, she also says that the relationship was not real, and explained nothing happened because she was just 14, and Messi 18.
What is Macarena Lemos doing now?
Macarena Lemos is a 31-year-old model in Argentina. She was a contestant on the show Combate in 2014. She also was a cast member of Dulces Noches de Buenos Aires. The model first rose to fame as Miss ShowMatch at age 13 but became even more popular after a rumor emerged that she had once dated Messi.
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It was to be expected that Messi’s relationships would become public news once he became the biggest star at Barcelona. Following this, he then became the biggest name in soccer, and then the world. He has been in a relationship with Antonela Roccuzzo since 2008 and married her in 2017. Messi has three children with her, Thiago (10), Mateo(7), and Ciro (4).
