Lionel Messi's father, Jorge Messi, dies
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Lionel Messi’s father, Jorge, died Saturday at a hospital in the central Argentina city of Rosario. He was 68. The Rosario-based Club Atlético Newell’s Old Boys announced the death of the father of the soccer star and Argentina captain in a social media post that said he had undergone treatment in recent months for an unspecified illness.
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