(FILES) Argentina's forward #10 Lionel Messi's wife Antonela Roccuzzo (C), mother Celia Maria Cuccittini (C-R) and father Jorge Messi (C-L) wait on the stands for the Qatar 2022 World Cup final football match between Argentina and France at Lusail Stadium in Lusail, north of Doha on December 18, 2022. 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 Anne-Christine POUJOULAT / AFP via Getty Images)