‘A goal each’: Lionel Messi’s 3 sons watched Dad score World Cup hat trick in KC
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- Messi scored his first World Cup hat trick as Argentina beat Algeria 3-0 in KC.
- Antonela Roccuzzo attended the match at GEHA Field with the couple’s three sons.
- Their sons Thiago, Mateo and Ciro wore Argentina jerseys with Messi’s number 10.
Lionel Messi’s biggest fans watched him have a historic night in Kansas City Tuesday.
Messi’s wife, Antonela Roccuzzo, made waves Tuesday as she walked through GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium — known as Kansas City Stadium for the 2026 FIFA World Cup — with the couple’s three young sons.
The boys got to see their superstar dad score his first World Cup hat trick as Argentina defeated Algeria 3-0 in both teams’ opening group-stage match.
Rocuzzo shared photos on Instagram of herself with the boys at the game.
“Messi gave each of his children a Goal each. My GOAT,” one fan commented.
Roccuzzo is widely considered one of the most influential and famous WAGs (and soccer moms) in pro soccer. She and Messi’s sons — Thiago, 13, Mateo, 10 and Ciro, 8 — are seen often at Messi’s games.
As they did in Kansas City, the boys wore blue-and-white-striped Argentina jerseys with their dad’s number 10 on the back to games during the 2022 FIFA World Cup.
Becoming a father changed his life, Messi said in a 2017 interview. It certainly changed his body art. After first son Thiago was born, he had the baby’s name and handprint tattooed on his calf.
“You grow and you learn,” Messi said. “You gather experience in all aspects of life, on and off the field. But, as a human being, having three children changed my perspective on life, my way of thinking and it also helped me grow.”
Messi’s sons play soccer, too, in the youth system of their dad’s Major League Soccer club, Inter Miami CF.
But undoubtedly the best coach they have is their proud papa.
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