Before the Barcelona star made the headlines he was another kid dreaming of greatness on the streets of Rosario - Goal visits the place where he took his first steps.
The rubbish dump had not only been the site of terrible stories, it had also become a place of mischief for the kids of the block. In the moments when they were not playing with the ball, they would kill pigeons, gut them, pretend to be surgeons and perform a post-mortem, without knowing what post-mortem meant.
Some 20 years ago, you could buy around 30 mandarins for two pesos.