Messi first met Antonela when he was five years old and the couple married in 2017 in a grand ceremony in Rosario, Argentina. The family now lives in Miami with their three young sons, Thiago, Mateo and Ciro.
From Rosario to Miami
Messi and Antonela are childhood sweethearts, having met as children in Argentina. Their romance has taken them to all corners of the world, with Messi spending most of his career at Barcelona before joining Paris Saint-Germain and now Inter Miami. Despite marrying one of the greatest footballers of all time, Antonela says her life is pretty routine. She told Grazia magazine: “We love our routine. It’s very important for our family, this structure. We get up very early, take the kids to school, and then I try to train at least five times a week. I then try to fit my meetings, errands or photo shoots during school hours. Then, I pick up the children and take them to their football or extracurricular activities. Then we have dinner and go to bed. We are a family like any other. »
How Messi proposed
Messi has revealed how he proposed during a party in Barcelona. “ We had already been together for many years. We already had Thiago and Mateo; we already had two sons”he told Nahuel Guzmán in the Miro de Atrás podcast.
“Well, one time we went to dinner in Barcelona, in a hotel. We spent the night there, and that’s when I proposed to him. But in fact, it was already something that was already known, it had to be, but it was more romantic.
It wasn’t like the chain suddenly broke and I said, “Ah, let’s get married, that’s it!” » No, no, it was more romantic, but in the same vein: setting a date, that sort of thing. Yes, because our relationship was already becoming official. »
