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In an interview with Marca, shortly after receiving the European Golden Shoe for the fourth time on Friday, Lionel Messi opened up on some areas of his private life, including why his son, Thiago, does not call him daddy.
The Barcelona star previously won the award in the 2009-10, 2011-12 and 2012-13 seasons. He has also just signed a new and historic 4-year deal at Barcelona.
Why Thiago doesn’t call him daddy
“Thiago already begins to realize, more or less, but not quite. He likes to go to the court and watch the games, but he still does not fully understand it. Even at home he sees me and calls me Leo Messi, because it is what he hears from his friends, he still does not understand it at all.”
Messi’s biggest temptation when it comes to food
Messi said that the more he tries to cut chocolate out of his diet, the more he cuts it in.
“The chocolate. It’s the most difficult for me. Even now, from time to time I sin with chocolate.”
Close to retirement
With his current deal keeping him till 2021 when he would be 34, plus a growing family of a wife, two children and another one the way, Messi should be thinking of life after football.
But admitted that he is not sure what his post-football life would look like
“I do not know what I will do. We have spoken several times in the family about how I will occupy my time once my football career is over, but it is something that I do not have defined. I always said that as a coach I do not see myself, I do not feel it.
“When a few years pass, the same change, but today I do not see myself. I do not know, I still have several years left and then we’ll see.”