Argentina and Paris Saint-Germain superstar Lionel Messi is set to play in his second FIFA World Cup final on December 18, 2022. It has now been almost two decades since Messi burst onto the scene and proved his immense qualities in a Barcelona shirt.
Before heading to Spain, Messi played for Club Atlético Newell’s Old Boys, an Argentine club based in Rosario, Santa Fe. It was at the age of 13 when Messi made the jump from playing in Rosario to playing in Barcelona.
13-Year-Old Lionel Messi named Nicole Neumann his favorite model in a viral resurfaced interview
Just months before the move, Messi gave an interview with Diario La Capital, which seems to be his first interview ever. A newspaper cutting of the interview has gone viral recently. According to AS.com, the introduction was as follows:
“Lionel Messi is a player in the 10th division and the attacking playmaker for the team. He’s not only one of the up-and-coming players in Newell’s academy but has a huge future ahead of him, because, despite his height, he manages to go past one, two, dribble, score goals, but above all, he enjoys himself with the ball and as of today he’s being revealed to the world.”
Messi en respuestas rápidas a los 13 años
Destacó: Nicole Neumann, Handball y pollo con salsa pic.twitter.com/67wInUlGi1
— Juan Talavera (@JSTalavera) December 16, 2022
In that interview, Messi stated that his favorite model was Nicole Newmann.
All you need to know about Nicole Neumann’s modeling career
Nicole Neumann was born on October 31, 1980, in Buenos Aires. She first worked in a TV advertisement at the age of 4. At the age of 12, Neumann started a promising career as she became the youngest model at the time. The press called her “Lolita”, a term used in Argentina for mainstream young models. It has been taken from a book by Vladimir Nabokov
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She has worked as a model internationally in Paris, France, and Milan, Italy. The Argentine model has also worked for Pancho Dotto, Roberto Giordano, and clothing brands including Versace and Nina Ricci.
Nicole posed nude for the Gente magazine (a popular and long-running Italian weekly current affairs) in 2001 with the model Pampita. She said that it benefited both of them, however, both models were involved in conflicts in later years.
Where is Neumann now, and how much is she worth?
Nicole Neumann is a successful model and a mother to three children. She has almost two million followers on Instagram.
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She has done theater work and also acted in movies in her career. As of now, she works as a TV host for Tardes Nuestras which airs on the KZO channel in Argentina. Her net worth is around $5 million.