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Jorge Messi, Lionel Messi’s father and longtime agent, dies at 68
He played soccer as a midfielder and reached the youth ranks of Newell’s Old Boys but had to abandon the sport to complete his mandatory military service in Argentina.
Media reports at the time outraged the Messi family, which days later released a statement confirming that “Jorge is experiencing a health issue,” without specifying the nature of his condition.
Jorge Messi, the father of soccer star and Argentina captain Lionel Messi, has died at the age of 68 on August 8, at a hospital in the central Argentina city of Rosario.
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