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Stay Messi, My Friend

Lionel Messi only seems like the least interesting man in the world. Listen closely and his silence speaks louder than most athletes' shouts.

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It is easy to find the most private superstar in the world.

Seriously, it is. You just put Hogar de Messi -- hogar is Spanish for "home" -- into Google Maps, and up pops an address in Castelldefels, a gorgeous, windswept village carved into a mountain on the outskirts of Barcelona.