There are questions no one should ask an Argentine child.
They asked him this one on live television, with the cameras rolling and his mom standing nearby: Who do you love more, your mom or Lionel Messi? Any adult would have looked for a diplomatic way out. Not him. He thought for a moment, looked straight ahead, and delivered his verdict with the confidence of someone pronouncing sentence.
In Argentina, Messi is more than just a player. He’s the one who lifted the World Cup, made half the country cry with joy, and has just said goodbye to the national team in front of his own people at the Monumental. For a child who grew up watching Leo, perhaps it wasn’t even a difficult question: it was a matter of priorities.
The best part is that the answer came without malice or calculation, with the brutal honesty only kids have. They say that on TV and around the family dinner table, it’s the children who tell the truth for a reason.
And you, what would you have answered at his age?