The love story that moved Lionel Messi: After her husband died she made sure to fulfill his dream
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As captain of the Argentine national team, Lionel Messi fulfilled his lifelong dream by leading his country to World Cup glory at Qatar 2022.
As captain of the Argentine national team, Lionel Messi fulfilled his lifelong dream by leading his country to World Cup glory at Qatar 2022. In the first few days of 2023, as Messi prepared to give an interview to Argentine radio presenter Andy Kusnetzoff’s show “Perros de la Calle” on Urbana Play, the World Cup winner knew that he would soon also fulfil someone else’s dream. Juliana Yatorno waits for a call from the other side of the world. She is at her house in Argentina and has no idea what is about to happen. In 2018, Thomás, Juliana’s husband, made some cards with Lionel Messi’s face on them to distribute to thousands of people at the World Cup in Russia, to share his devotion to Argentina’s No. 10 as a way of showing the gratitude of an entire country. “Thomás was a very ingenious and very creative person,” Juliana, known as Juli, tells CNN Español as she remembers that year. “He comes to me one day and he shows me that he had written ‘Messi´s prayer,’ which is the Lord’s Prayer adapted to Messi and all his magic with the ball.
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