Finally, what everyone expected came true. This is already Messi’s World Cup. The Copa América with a return included in the Maracaná freed him. And the star plucked up the courage so that Qatar 2022 was the best World Cup of him. And it already is, even at Brazil 2014, where the team led by Alejandro Sabela reached the final. But this is a Messi who is the absolute leader, a total player, a Maradonian in dribbling and also in patenting sentences that are a shirt. Aware of what was about to happen, Leo is accompanied by a large group who encourage him in every game. With his wife Antonela Roccuzzo, first lady of Argentine football, and their sons Thiago, Mateo and Ciro, the Messis move like a true tribe on the edge of the Qatar desert.

That said, not just his wife and children. There are also his parents, Jorge and Celia Cuccittini. And his brothers, Rodrigo and Matías and María Sol, the youngest.

As she had done on other occasions with Maradona, who casually called her by name, journalist Pia Shaw managed to break the family silence. After the victory against Holland, you got the statement from Celia, Leo’s mother: she was in pain. It’s terrible, I can’t stand another game like this because I think I’m dying. Everything was sad when they bonded, the children crying, my grandchildren. The little ones, absolutely not, me, everyone. We always suffer,” said the woman, still with a thousand palpitations.

True to her custom, Antonela doesn’t talk to anyone. However, as she left the stadium on Friday, she had already learned of the verbal exchange her husband had with Wout Weghorst: “What are you looking at, you fool … go over there, stupidAnd a camera caught her walking and repeating the phrase that it’s already a shirt.

On Antonela’s side are her father, José Roccuzzo and her uncle. Rosario, wearing the alternate shirt and matching Adidas pilu hat, went into their own nets with the two men on Friday with the Lusail stadium in the background and victory in the sack.

The great mystery is Antonela’s mother who never appeared in the box with the crew. Not even the sisters with whom she visited the Iguazu Falls shortly before going to Qatar.

It is worth mentioning that there are also pairs of Messi’s brothers and his nephews. A troop that benches him to death in every match and that will accompany him until the end. Beyond the final result, Messi has already completed his great World Cup. With the support of his family and all Argentines, Leo will try to take another step towards the final in Qatar.

How matches are experienced in Antonela’s box, in pictures