Barcelona Celebrate Lionel Messi’s 28th Birthday By Sharing Previously Unreleased Footage Of His ‘Cadete A’ Days (Video)

Chris Wright

24th, June 2015

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By Chris Wright

The depressing fact of the matter is that today is only Lionel Messi’s 28th birthday – a man who has already broken more records and surpassed more milestones in football than is strictly decent.

To celebrate their little maestro turning the big two-eight, Barcelona have shared a swatch of previously unreleased footage of Messi back in his Cadete A (Barca’s top youth side) days.

After graduating up through the Infantil and Cadete B strings, Messi scored 37 goals in 30 matches for the Cadete A side – a ratio he’s pretty much kept going to this very day.

Here he is in action in 2002/03-ish, aged roughly 15/16-years-old…

It’s funny, but we don’t remember the year that Lionel Messi was briefly played by a young John Terry…

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Happy Birthday Leo, you precocious little bloody bugger!