Messi's ancestry

When talking about Lionel Messi, his most mentioned relatives are his siblings, parents and his maternal grandmother Celia, but, of course, it extends for much more than that, having detailed information going as back as the 18th century believe it or not. So without further ado, let's look at Messi's ancestry.

So far, we've reached until Messi's great-great-great-grandfathers Pacífico Messi (born circa 1797) and Lucía Catena. The main branch (where Messi came from) comes from Ángelo Messi, from where Messi's paternal ancestors come from. As it'll be seen in the next picture, he comes from Italian immigrants who immigrated to Argentina someHe also has Spanish ancestors, having info as back as Mariano Pérez Miralles (born in 1821) and Teresa Llobera Minguet (both married in 1846), his paternal great-great-grandfathers, to his father, Jorge Messi. This also leads to the weird fact that Bojan is a distant relative of his, since they share great-great-grandfathers (Pérez, which is present in Bojan's full name, can also be seen in every generation leading to Messi).

There's also another side of the branch, all carrying the Messi surname, which got started by Giovanni Messi (born in 1858). There are still living relatives nowadays, being the youngest one born in 1990.

With Messi having 3 children of his own, it's fascinating how far back we can look at Messi's ancestry, and the little fun details we can get from it like Bojan being a distant relative from him. Whoever did the work to find Messi's ancestors deserves huge praise, because we can see as far back as 6 generations from Messi, which is quite remarkable.