The former Blaugrana midfielder says he wondered whether the Argentine attacker would make it at Camp Nou after watching him play in the youth teams
Ex-Barcelona and Spain midfielder Guillermo Amor says Lionel Messi has "pulverised all expectations" during his career at the Catalan club.
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Amor was one of the first players to come through the youth ranks at La Masia and went on to coach at the Barca academy when Joan Laporta was elected as president in 2003.
It was then that he first saw a young Messi, who had arrived in Barcelona in 2000 and was starring for the junior sides before moving up to the first team in 2004-05.