Apart from being a great footballer, Lionel Messi is known to be a great family man. Whenever Barcelona forward gets time from his professional duties, he never misses a single chance to spend time with his family. Today was no different. Messi was seen performing daddy duties as he dropped his kids Thiago and Mateo and to the school.

The footballer star posed for a few pictures with his kids and posted the same on social media. Mateo, born in 2015 looked a spitting image of his father. Thiago, who also looked happy with his father coming to see him off to school is five years old. Check out a few pictures below:

 

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The footballer recently reached 150 assists in the La Liga history. However, he was snubbed for the FIFA Awards 2018 for the first time since 2006. The three names which qualified for the award are Cristiano Ronaldo, Luka Modric, Mohamed Salah.

The Barcelona star was also in the news for being abused by a female fan at one of the airports after Messi refused to sign a t-shirt on Argentine Rosario Central shirt. Messi being the keen supporter of Rosario’s rivals Newell's Old Boys and he obviously refused to sign the jersey. Messi played for Newell's Old Boys for six years before he joined Barcelona.  Getting Messi to sign Rosario Central jersey would mean asking him for an autograph on the Real Madrid shirt. Something that would never happen. This did not go down well with the fan and she insulted him by calling him a pecho frio", which translates to "cold-blooded". Video of the same went viral.

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