(FILES) Argentina's football player Lionel Messi (L) and his father Jorge Messi (R) arrive at the Islas Malvinas airport in Rosario, Santa Fe province, Argentina, on July 13, 2021, after making his visa arrangements in the US Embassy to travel to Miami on vacation. Jorge Messi, the father and agent of global football star Lionel Messi, has died aged 68 in Rosario, his hometown north of Buenos Aires, Newell's Old Boys the club where the Argentine captain played as a child announced on aUGUST 8, 2026. (Photo by AFP via Getty Images)