Clips of young Lionel Messi playing for Newell's Old Boys and Barcelona's La Masia

Barcelona’s Lionel Messi is definitely one of the greatest players to have ever graced the pitch, and his magic on the pitch is known by all most every other football fan in the planet.

But, very few had seen him with the ball when he was a determined young kid in Argentina, playing for his local Newell's Old Boys, an Argentine sports club based in Rosario, Santa Fe, or when he was enrolled into Barcelona’s iconic youth academy, La Masia.

Here is a compilation of a few clips of young Messi while he was playing for Old Boys and La Masia:

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