The man’s off on national duty, helping Argentina in their Copa America campaign but that didn’t stop the world from celebrating Lionel Messi’s 28th birthday in style on Wednesday.
FC Barcelona’s Instagram handle went on overdrive posting pictures of the star while players from across the world too tweeted their own tributes to Messi.
However, in the deluge of pictures and videos, the one that obviously stole the day was Messi’s young son Thiago’s video wishing his father a Happy Birthday with a candle in front of him.
The video, posted by Messi’s girlfriend Antonella Roccuzzo came with the caption, “Happy birthday Papi @LeoMessi miss you !!! Hope you have a beautiful day. We love you ”.
The two-year-old has obviously come a long way since his serial award-ceremony-bawling days.
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Now coming back to the ‘deluge’ of messages mentioned earlier. Take a look at FC Barcelona’s Birthday wish to the Argentina - a series of mugshots of the man over the last few years.
Fellow footballers too joined the celebrations on Instagram, sending out their own wishes to the 28-year-old.
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