Lionel Messi
Messi in 2011, photo by Natursports / Shutterstock.com
Birth Name: Lionel Andrés Messi Cuccittini
Place of Birth: Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina
Date of Birth: 24 June, 1987
Ethnicity: Argentinian [Italian, as well as Catalan, Spanish, possibly other]
Lionel Messi is an Argentinian professional footballer. He is considered one of the best players of the sport. He plays as a forward for, and captains, Major League Soccer club Inter Miami, and the Argentina national team, both. He has also played for Barcelona C, Barcelona B, Barcelona, and Paris Saint-Germain, and captained Barcelona. With Argentina, he won the 2021 Copa América and the 2022 FIFA World Cup, and an Olympic gold medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics; and holds the record for most goals in La Liga. He has won seven Ballon d’Or awards and six European Golden Shoes. He has also been an endorser for sportswear company Adidas. He is also known as Leo Messi.
Lionel is the son of Celia María Cuccittini and Jorge Horacio Messi Pérez, a steel factory manager. His cousins are professional footballers Maxi Biancucchi and Emanuel Biancucchi. He moved to Spain at thirteen to play for Barcelona. He is married to social media personality Antonella Roccuzzo, with whom he has three children. Pictures of Lionel’s grandparents and relatives can be seen here and here. He is a citizen of Argentina, Italy, and Spain.
Lionel’s paternal grandfather was Eusebio Italo Messi Baró (the son of Aniceto Antonio Messi and Santa Baro). Aniceto was the son of Italian parents, Angelo Pasquale Messi Catena and Maria Latini Donatii, who were from Recanati, Province of Macerata, Marche. Angelo was the son of Pacifico Messi and Lucia Catena. Maria was the daughter of Raffaele Latini and Rosa Donati. The couple married c. 1890 and moved to Rosario, Argentina c. 1893. Lionel’s great-grandmother Santa was also the daughter of Italian parents, Secondo Baro and Maria Piovesana, who were from Treviso, Veneto.
Lionel’s paternal grandmother was Rosa María Pérez Mateu (the daughter of José Pérez Solé and Rosa Mateu i Gesé). Lionel’s grandmother Rosa was born in Santa Fe, Argentina. José was the son of Ramón Pérez Llobera, who was born in El Poal, Lleida, Catalonia, Spain, and of Maria Solé Font, who was born in Bellcaire, Girona, Catalonia. Lionel’s great-grandmother Rosa was born, c. 1910, in Blancafort de Tragó de Noguera, Catalonia.
Lionel’s maternal grandfather was named Antonio Cuccittini (the son of Arderigo “Federico” Coccettini). Federico was born in Ribeirao Preto, Sao Paulo, Brazil, to Italian parents, Raniero Coccettini and Rosa Ricchezza, from San Severino, Marche.
Lionel’s maternal grandmother was named Celia Ramona Oliveira.
Sources: http://www.aldia.cr
http://archivo.globovision.com
http://442.perfil.com
http://lanoticia.hn
Genealogies of Lionel Messi – http://www.calciomercatonews.com
https://www.geni.com
Notes on some of Lionel’s ancestry – http://futbol.as.com
http://www.mundodeportivo.com
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/pedigree/landscape/LBGM-6V4
Update
He’s obviously not of fully European descent, I think he’s harnizo or so. He didn’t get the high cheekbones, slanted eyes, long nose, straight hair and triangulated face from the European side… but I can absolutely discern some Italian facial traits.
Sei una barzelletta, Messi ‘Berid”? Questa è grossa.
Harnizo? He’s lucky to be Castizo, the maternal grandmother is of mix heritage. I’m Castizo and the maternal grandmother is definitely not full Indigenous.
This is real life (5:30) footage of her, the photo makes her look much darker than she really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0m6Vi3_kdE&list=LL&index=3&t=357s
@jonasbjr
You said a lot of crap. Messi looks neither Italian or Spanish, despite his family has such bloodlines. In fact at least his mother arguably has Amerindian blood, possibly his father too. You even have a double of him from Iran named Reza Parastesh. You say…how so? Iran is in Asia and Messi is part Amerindian.
Gli Iraniani non sono né Semiti né Arabi a parte una minoranza nel Sud. Insomma non sei capace di stabilire una conversazione costruttiva, sei una battaglia persa.
C’è una minoranza araba nel Sud del paese. In Iran ci sono vari gruppi etnici, in primis i Persiani che NON sono Semiti, i Curdi (idem), gli Azeri e altri. Tutte informazioni facilmente reperibili, così non fai la figura del deficiente.
Ah, io? Non ce la fai proprio a capire.
theres many people from different backgrounds that can look similar, theres even a black guy who looks kinda like Matt Damon, believe it or not, i saw one time in a youtube video of Steve Yeoh on Conan. And that part were i said there’s guys in Spain who look similar to him was not the center of my point, lets not make this whole thing about ”who looks like who from this and that places”. My take about him having strong features from both Spain and Italy remains, i only stated that some features that are quite common in Spain(the north of) seem predominant in him. Have you seen a indigenous argentinian? He looks nothing like it, his mom has one or two traits that can be viewed as ameridian-like, but given Messi’s documented ancestry, if he has any non-euro in him, must be quite distant and would not affect his looks at all. Btw at least 75% of argentinians are full blood euros, mostly Italian, Spaniards and Germans, so there you go…
Scrivi almeno nella nostra lingua che in inglese lo capiscono tutti che sei scemo
Cosa? Spero tu non sia dislessico. La mia lingua madre è la tua (almeno credo), poi so anche francese e inglese, e posso capire un po’ di spagnolo scritto almeno. Tutti i madrelingua inglesi non hanno bisogno di imparare una lingua straniera, perché non ne hanno bisogno, dato che l’inglese lo parlano ovunque. Invece se la tua lingua è “debole”, sapere le lingue straniere aiuta. Nell’Est Europa generalmente parlano tutti molte lingue per questo.
Quindi un consiglio, almeno scrivi in italiano che così le capiscono in pochi le tue castronerie, o vuoi farti ridere dietro da tutti? Dai su.
Sei dislessico. “La terza volta che ti chiedo di tradurre?” Ma che cacchio capisci? Sorvolo su “le lingue latine come il tedesco, l’olandese…”, ma ci sei o ci fai? Non sono latine e l’olandese non è una lingua molto parlata nel mondo…altro che “gettonata” (?). Delirio totale. L’inglese non verrà soppiantata per nulla, anzi, e certo nell’Est molti parlano più lingue, impara qualcosa. Ma ti ritieni superiore a tutti perché odi tutti.
Interessante l’argomentazione storica che fai questa volta, so che ti ho rotto un po’ le palle con la storia degli stereotipi sui sardi, ma non serve che ti crei dei nemici perché odi te stesso, quindi ripetere ad minchiam (scusa il latinismo) che uso il traduttore e che sarei “sudamericano” lascia il tempo che trova. E poi ho detto solo quello che si sa: se la tua lingua è l’inglese sei a posto così perché la parlano ovunque, mentre l’Est Europa è povero e terra di emigrazione verso l’UE, quindi è normale che parlino più lingue (tra cui la nostra).
World champion! The ultimate GOAT of Football! btw is he really mostly italian? the only italian thing i can see in him is his nose and eyes. In general he looks very northern spaniard, especially from places like Bilbao and Santander, there’s many guys similar to him in those cities.
*the pale skin, combined with the reddish hair and light brown eyes are quite the trade mark of people from the Basque country and Galicia
Looks nothing like an average guy from Spain. This is a surreal conversation.
Non è vero e lo sai…non sei così rincoglionito e lo so.
Lol this endless field between you guys is hilarius
Who is an average guy from Spain? Can you give an example?.
He look more white than many southern Italians, his skin is super pale and he has like brown redish hair.
He is a definition of a white man. ( I don’t deny that he could have some native mic mix but what matter is the result , and Messi came super white, also super good player .)
Oh stfu u — fool