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Messi turns up at random gym, trains while watching his own goals, meets fans

Valentina Jure was just going to the gym. She thought it’d be a day like any other. Suddenly, in through the door came a familiar face. At first, she wasn’t sure it was really him. But soon enough, she realized for sure. Lionel Messi had just entered a gym in Fisherton, a town in Rosario, the city from which the Argentine legend hails.

“He came in as if he was any other, I could not believe it,” the young Rosario resident told a local news outlet.

“He used the machines like any other; he was smiling with everyone.