One certain day, back in 1992, inside Club Abanderado Grandoli's stadium, Messi could be seen hitting the ball to the wall and receiving it himself in the stands, a common practice when having the ball alone. Leo had been attached to the ball back when he was only 3 years old in fact. The club was not far away from Messi's home, as there was only a 1.5 Km difference between them.
On that certain day, Grandoli had one less man, so their coach, Ricardo Aparicio, decided to approach Celia, Messi's mother, to ask her if he could play him. She was reluctant, citing the difference of age, height and his lack of experience, but his grandmother pushed the decision of making him play, and that's what happened.
According to what Aparicio said, the first ball he received went to the side of him and he watched it go, but the second time he received the ball, he received it with his left foot and dribbled past everyone, making a statement of how good he was early on. And as a fun fact, after Aparicio, his father Jorge Messi was Grandoli's coach.
People were saying that the new Maradona had been born, and Messi certainly met his expectation as his team usually won by a big difference and with a lot of goals coming from him as well, although Ramon Min, a Dutch sportswriter admin of @MessiStats_ has only been able to collect 5 goals from his time at Grandoli.
He also won a few trophies in Grandoli, one of them being this one:
One day, his father couldn't pay the entry, and therefore couldn't enter the stadium, so that would be the last time Messi wore Grandoli's shirt. After that, he moved to Newell's Old Boys, having a wonderful run, and after moving to Barcelona in September of 2000, the rest, as they say, is history.
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