Messi: “I've only read one book in my life, I cannot bear Tango music, and my wife hates football”
Saturday, June 22, 2013 @ 9:07 PM
BARÇA forward Lionel 'Leo' Messi has admitted that he has only ever read one book in his life – the autobiography of his compatriot and fellow footballer Diego Maradona.
And he says his Italian wife, Antonia Roccuzzo, has 'no interest whatsoever' in football.
“Sometimes I'll come home and tell her I've scored a hat-trick, but she doesn't pay any attention to me,” Messi, who celebrates his 26th birthday on Monday, confessed.
“We never talk about football and I never watch it on TV,” he adds.
Despite being born and brought up in Argentina, the player described as the 'best footballer in the world' says he knowns 'practically nothing' about controversial and world-famous leader Che Guevara, a revolutionary who was born in the central-western city of Mendoza – although who has extended family living in Parcent (Alicante) in Spain.
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