Chance for Lionel Messi to grow 'taller' than Diego Maradona
Lionel Messi was 11 years old when his parents Jorge and Celia took him to see endocrinologist Diego Schwarzstein for growth hormone deficiency.
Sixteen years later he stands on the brink of repeating what his idol did in 1986 - captaining Argentina to the World Cup title.
The story goes that Messi, who suffered a growth hormone deficiency, asked Schwarzstein if he would grow tall enough to be a footballer.
"Don't worry," Schwarzstein told him."One day you are going to be taller than Diego Maradona, maybe not better than him, but taller.
"Messi would in fact grow to be four centimetres taller than his idol. But 16 years after that visit to Schwarzstein's clinic in Rosario, Messi is arguably on the verge of proving the doctor was only half right.
He will Sunday (July 13) captain an Argentina side aiming for a third World Cup against Germany at Rio's Maracana stadium.
It would be a crowning glory for a player that is already rated among the greatest in history.
“Messi is St. Peter, but Maradona is God,” said Mariano Capretti, 39, whose family owns a clothing factory in Buenos Aires.
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