Messi Misses Barca Match 'for Baby's Birth'
Zeeshan Mehtab Published March 10, 2018 | 05:26 PM
Lionel Messi has pulled out of Barcelona's squad for Saturday's La Liga match at Malaga with reports saying the birth of his third child is imminent
Barcelona, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 10th Mar, 2018 ) :Lionel Messi has pulled out of Barcelona's squad for Saturday's La Liga match at Malaga with reports saying the birth of his third child is imminent.
The club tweeted: "Change to the squad. Messi is out for personal reasons and Yerry Mina takes his place.
" Messi's wife Antonella Roccuzzo is expecting a boy, a brother to five-year-old Thiago and Mateo, who is two.
The child is expected to be called Ciro. The Argentinian couple, both 30, first met as children in 1996. Their relationship began a decade later. Barcelona, who face Chelsea in the second leg of their last-16 Champions League tie at the Camp Nou on Wednesday, have an eight-point lead over Atletico Madrid at the top of La Liga.
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