Jorge Messi, the father and\u00a0agent of Lionel Messi, has died aged 68, the eight-time Ballon d’Or winner’s\u00a0childhood club Newell’s Old Boys announced on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Argentinian media reported Jorge Messi had passed away on Friday in a\u00a0hospital in Rosario.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“His constant companionship and behind-the-scenes leadership were essential\u00a0in backing every step of Lionel,” Newell’s Old Boys said in a social media\u00a0post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jorge Messi was his son’s first coach in Argentina and his sole companion\u00a0when he first moved to Barcelona as a child, before later becoming his agent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“My father helped me enormously. He is very critical of me. That made me\u00a0always want to push myself further,” Lionel Messi told DirecTV Sports in\u00a02022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Messi’s family asked the media for “humanity” during the recent World Cup\u00a0amid persistent rumours over Jorge’s health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Jorge Messi, the father and\u00a0agent of Lionel Messi, has died aged 68, the eight-time Ballon d’Or winner’s\u00a0childhood club Newell’s Old Boys announced on Saturday. Argentinian media reported Jorge Messi had passed away on Friday in a\u00a0hospital in Rosario. “His constant companionship and behind-the-scenes leadership were essential\u00a0in backing every step of Lionel,” Newell’s Old Boys said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":35966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[54],"class_list":["post-35965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-54"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebangladeshtoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebangladeshtoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebangladeshtoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebangladeshtoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebangladeshtoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebangladeshtoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35967,"href":"https:\/\/thebangladeshtoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35965\/revisions\/35967"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebangladeshtoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebangladeshtoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebangladeshtoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebangladeshtoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}