Reda Selim (Dubai) The Argentine stadiums witnessed the appearance of a player named Joaquin Messi, wearing the number 10 shirt, who recently joined Newell’s Old Boys, and participated in the first meeting with the team, putting Messi’s name on the shirt from the back, which sparked controversy on the communication sites. , between endorsing and asking the player to change his name. The ESPN sports website revealed the appearance of a player bearing the Argentine title, Messi, the star of Paris Saint-Germain, and the new Messi plays in Newell’s Old Boys, the same team from which Lionel, captain of the “Tango” national team, started his football career. ESPN said that Joaquin Messi plays for Newell’s Old Boys and wears the No. 10 shirt carried by his compatriot, legend Lionel Messi, the Saint-Germain star. Joaquin Messi, 19, has no family relationship with the star Messi, although he bears the same family surname, and lives in the village of Coronel Arnold, near Rosario, Messi’s hometown. Joaquín Messi says: “Many fans ask me if there is a connection between me and Messi, but it is just a ‘coincidence’, because the village from which I come, there are three families bearing the same family name. The captain of the “Tango” team had played for the Argentine team Newell’s Old Boys for a period of years in the junior period between 1995 and 2000, before joining Barcelona’s academy at the age of 13 22 years ago. The “flea” wore the Newell’s Old Boys shirt for the last time in November 2020 in his first meeting when he was a player in Barcelona following the departure of Maradona, who represented the same team before, at the end of his career in the nineties.
