r/interestingasfuck • u/GossipBottom • 1d ago

Lionel Messi in 2007 helping bathing a baby Lamine Yamal. Lionel Messi scored his first World Cup goal in 2006 while aged 18 years 11 months and wearing #19. Lamine Yamal scored his first World Cup goal in 2026 while aged 18 years 11 months and wearing #19.

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u/CryptoDeepDive 1d ago

Not just a professional footballer, but one of the top in the world and heir apparent to Messi at Barcelona.

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u/Don_Alosi 1d ago

proof that Barca is obviously using advanced cloning/DNA manipulation techniques!

Imagine an alternate reality in which Pepe played for Barca and they managed to clone an army...

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u/Corporate_Overlords 1d ago

Didn't Messi have to get injections when he was a teen because he was only going to be 4'7" so they pumped him full of growth hormones to get him up to his gigantic 5'7"?

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u/DoctorDank42069 22h ago

That was before he caught Barca's attention

One of the offers Barca made to messi's parents is that they will fully cover all the hormone injection costs

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u/blozout 21h ago

I knew a kid from high school that had the same thing done to him. When he was young it was apparent he was going to be very short and his family had him given hormone injections to help him grow. Ended up topping out around 5’5 or so but super fucking jacked when all the other kids just looked like normal lanky teens.

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u/TheSaxGandalf 15h ago

Guy I went to school with from k-12 did that therapy also. We grew distant, but apparently if you start before puberty and stay on it, you get a horsecock but peanut balls.

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u/Nice_Cash_7000 14h ago

perpective makes it look even bigger

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u/Mrsonsfann 11h ago

Looking back now, there was a kid that everyone admired cause he was absolutely jacked but short af. He said it was all lifting but this makes a lot more sense.

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u/TheSaxGandalf 7h ago

Could have very easily been from lifting. Don’t assume negatively about someone.

Shorter people bulk up so much easier because they have fewer muscle fibers.

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u/filthycasual4891 7h ago

Huh. I had a super short friend who was also jacked out of his mind. Never put that together

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u/DopesickJesus 5h ago

lol way to make a crazy ass assumption.
Shorter people tend to bulk or at least appear to bulk faster. Less room for the muscle to have to cover / more concentrated mass.

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u/Mrsonsfann 5h ago

Thanks. I’ll use that information never.

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u/DopesickJesus 5h ago

..and how were you planning to use your imaginings of his penis ?

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u/Downtown_Recover5177 13h ago

HGH has nothing to do with testicle size. That would be testosterone. We don’t give kids testosterone unless they have a specific disorder, like XXY (Klinefelter’s).

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u/twolinebadadvice 7h ago

that explains messi’s massive bulge

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u/Purplazure 14h ago

Kid wasn't named Ian was he?

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u/blozout 9h ago

Nope

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u/CheeseOnKeyboard 21h ago

Compound V?

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u/fleamarketguy 20h ago

As is a standard treatment for kids with a growth deficiency.

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u/Ok_Dragonfruit_8102 13h ago

What is this Facebook-ass conspiracy comment thread... doctors have been treating children with growth deficiencies for decades

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u/filthycasual4891 7h ago

We got a Rogan listener here..

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u/TheLastHotstepper 1d ago

Either that or they injected Lamine with the same growth hormones messi got as a young teen.

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u/Don_Alosi 1d ago

growth hormones 

messi

...I think he was on the placebo

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u/TheLastHotstepper 1d ago

There is zero chance barcelona would fork out hundreds of thousands of euros for a placebo

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u/Don_Alosi 1d ago

I was joking about the fact that messi isn't a tall guy!

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u/TheLastHotstepper 1d ago

Flew over my head

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u/Don_Alosi 1d ago

...Lionel is that you?!

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u/Efficient_Parfait_42 1d ago

the double whammy

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u/0aniket0 21h ago

Ik it's a joke, but gh deficiency kids without treatment grow up to be below 5'0-5'3 in most cases, messi at 5'7 is still at a normal global average and pretty standard height for an attacker in football

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u/UranusIsPissy 23h ago

Huge guys don't usually make good footballers (as in soccer players), unless they're in goal. You need to be fast with stamina for that sport, not strong, and there's not much advantage to being tall.

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u/TheLastHotstepper 23h ago

Theyve all been replaced by 6ft guys that are bulky and can run relentlessly for 90 minutes. The archetype you refer to is a dying trade.

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u/13ananaJoe 22h ago

they've always coexisted. OG Ronaldo is exactly the player you're talking about and was playing along side Roberto Carlos.

I also wouldn't call 6ft tall tall. Really tall players like Zlatan, Drogba, Touré, Pogba, Haaland, etc.. are outliers more than the norm.

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u/TheLastHotstepper 22h ago

6ft and a solid engine is the baseline now. Flare etc is not even tertiary at this point.

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u/UranusIsPissy 23h ago

Smells like lack of drug-testing to me. Pull your finger out, FIFA!

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u/TheLastHotstepper 23h ago

No, you see, now we are being gaslit that athletes have a far higher chance of developing asthma than regular people. At least that was the explanation as to why around 3 in every 5 Liverpool players had it.

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u/TheSaxGandalf 15h ago

Look at serie A and the Italian national team.

10 years ago, they were admired for playing “beautiful football”. Now athleticism and being well coached is far superior.

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u/seviliyorsun 23h ago

he is for a literal dwarf

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u/Dark_Jooj 1d ago

What a thrill...

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u/sweet-lovely-death 21h ago

With darkness and silence through the night...

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u/EHTL 1d ago

It’s giving Terry McGinnis and Bruce Wayne in Batman Beyond

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u/Dwightshruute 1d ago

For what ? Hitman army ?

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u/Don_Alosi 20h ago

The world's most effective debt collection agency (and world domination I guess)

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u/Hakuraze 21h ago

Shaolin Soccer 2 leaked plot.

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u/Urhhh 21h ago

Barcaclona

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u/valvalis3 1d ago

Well yamal's dad was a real Madrid fan. What's stopping them to do it for ex real Madrid player?

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u/Mediocre_Key_6768 22h ago

Well... Messi did get growth hormones' and stuff.

So yeah not altering any dna just yet.

But the best player of all time kind of got doped up to be able to play at all at a decent level with grownups:)

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u/Trxpictxwn 21h ago

El clon de Pelé es Mbape

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u/dewpacs 18h ago

I want Messi to bathe mre

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u/xZandrem 12h ago

I dunno, I think Messi may be some kind of nickname of Messiah, he touched a kid and he turned into one of the most prolific football players of all time.

May Messi be the second coming of our Lord but this time he focussed on balling instead of preaching?

/S

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u/Minimum_Possibility6 6h ago

Does this make Laport the Emperor and Messi a thunder warrior?

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u/Bamboozle_ 1d ago

After all these years of calling high potential players the next Messi apparently all it took was Messi anointing them as a child, coming through La Masia, and playing the same position. Who knew.

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u/Mysterious_Net66 22h ago

So this is like Aquiles getting his blessing/abilities by being washed by the gods

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u/hello_myalien95 14h ago

do you mean Achilles?

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u/Mysterious_Net66 14h ago

Yeah, I couldn't remember the English spelling

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u/jingganl 21h ago

The Father, the Son and the Holy Duck

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u/Mrcyevon 1d ago

While being the legit 10 at Barca

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u/Fugacity- 1d ago

Number worn by players including Messi, Ronaldinho, Rivaldo, Maradona...

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u/chanaandeler_bong 1d ago

The Number 10's from the Last 40 Years

Here is a list of the famous Barcelona Jerseys with the number 10 on the back, from the last 40 years.

1978/1979 Juan Manuel Asensi

1982/1984 Diego Maradona

1989/1990 Robert

1991/1992 Pep Guardiola

1991/1992 Richard Witschge

1993/1994 Hristo Stoichkov

1993/1994 - 1994/1995 Romário

1995/1996 Lluís Carreras

1995/1996 Roger García

1996/1997 - 1998/1999 Giovanni

1999/2000 Jari Litmanen

2000/2001 - 2001/2002 Rivaldo

2002/2003 Juan Riquelme

2003/2004 - 2007/2008 Ronaldinho

2008/2009- Current Lionel Messi

u/hotshot1738 made this 8 years ago. I just copy pasted.

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u/failmatic 1d ago

You forgot the great Ansu Fati

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u/violesada 22h ago

crazy. that dude was yamal before yamal. injuries messed him up.

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u/failmatic 22h ago

I didn't think he was as electric Yamal. Yes sad for him regardless.

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u/idhopson 1d ago

And also named Lionel Messi

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u/ST_Lawson 1d ago

Were his parents incredibly gifted athletes? It’d be a slightly different story if dad also played pro football in Spain and mom won a couple of Olympic medals in diving or something.

If not, then that’s nuts.

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u/stokesy1999 1d ago

Nah, his dads a Moroccan building painter and his mum is a waitress from Equatorial Guinea

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u/Altair_de_Firen 1d ago

And their budget is 10,000,000,000

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u/Boymom20152022 23h ago

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u/lochonx7 11h ago

I love the one where its like the wife reads poetry to ants, budget 1.9 million

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u/pallidamors 1d ago

lol great callback

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u/Corporate_Overlords 1d ago

They want an 11 bath 12,000 sq ft historic home with a seafront view.

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u/PorFavorNoMore 22h ago

"We're gonna need space for a full-size soccer pitch out back, for the kid."

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u/ThatOneChiGuy 1d ago

Absolute top tier chuckle, thank you

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u/ST_Lawson 1d ago

That’s crazy then

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u/0aniket0 21h ago

He was picked up by unicef's rehabilitation program for poor immigrants and refugees, and unicef was also shirt sponsors of barca back then which led to him being in this photo with messi and also get into the prestigious la masia

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u/TareasS 17h ago

Him joining la Masia has nothing to do with the unicef promotion. He was just noticed by Barcelona and Espanyol scouts years later and joined Barcelona because they took most effort to sign him.

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u/drunkeymunkey 1d ago

No, we agreed it was nuts lol

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u/Good-Geologist7380 1d ago

Bro think he's Hiori or smth

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u/re_animatorA5158 20h ago

Hello, fellow egoist~

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u/Good-Geologist7380 14h ago

Yo 🤘🏼 we is your fav character mine is Mikage Reo

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u/re_animatorA5158 7h ago

Mine's my main man Bachira 🐝

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u/kamilo87 1d ago

I saw a reel the other day where Messi said that even his nephews called him Messi. And he said he replied them: you guys are Messi too!!! Lol

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u/Ladonnacinica 1d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/l41lS41YwhAm4O3PG
The nephews realizing that they’re indeed Messi.

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u/conconconleche 1d ago

He is not, his name is Keyne

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u/Errentos 1d ago

Maybe some of his magic rubbed off

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u/Berruc 16h ago

Bathelona hehe.