(FILES) Argentina's Lionel Messi parents and sister Antonella are pictured prior to the FIFA ballon d'or ceremony on January 9, 2012 at the Kongresshaus in Zurich. 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 FRANCK FIFE / AFP via Getty Images)