Lionel Messi’s showstopping talent brought a premature end to the career of his childhood football coach, who decided to bow out after training “the best player in the world.”
Coach Enrique Dominguez was just 45 when Barcelona legend Messi was blazing a trial as a pre-teen in his hometown of Rosario.
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Messi, who is limbering up for his sixth World Cup with the current titleholders, was born the third of four children in the city on the Parana river.
The house where he grew up, in the working-class district of La Bajada, is a place of pilgrimage for lovers of the beautiful game
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