(FILES) Father of Barcelona's player Lionel Messi, Jorge Horacio Messi, attends a training session of Barcelona at the Parc des Princes stadium in Paris on April 14, 2015, on the eve of the UEFA Champions League quarter final first leg football match Paris against Barcelona. 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)