The only Mexican team that Lionel Messi knows and respects his greatest idol

That Lionel Messi has your phone number, cares about your children and knows the team where you were a crack without a doubt would be priceless. This privilege is held by the former player of the Mexican national team and Cruz Azul, Christian Giménez, who is now a coach and great friend of La Pulga.

In an interview for TUDN, Christian Giménez revealed that when he was in the Argentine team, after the call made by Diego Armando Maradona, he had to concentrate with Lionel Messi, who was his roommate. El Chaco, as the former Cruz Azul midfielder is known, revealed that Messi knew about his career and even asked him about his son Santiago.

The former figure of Cruz Azul acknowledged that Lionel Messi surprised him with a question about Mexican soccer and about his family. In addition, they exchanged contacts. The relationship between Christian Giménez and the world champion was pleasant, in fact on the 18th birthday of his son Santiago Giménez, Messi sent greetings to the man who is now a striker for the Mexican team.

But Christian Giménez would not be the only player who knows Lionel Messi with the Cruz Azul shirt, the Argentine forward had a relative in the cement team, Maximiliano Biancucci, cousin of the 10th of the Argentine team who had an ephemeral step in the Celestial Machine.

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Curiously, the Mexican striker visited Mexico in 2011 for a charity match, the same one that took place at the Azul stadium where Cruz Azul was home. On that occasion, Lionel Messi and Christian Giménez shared the field again and had time to get to know the stadium where the cement squad was for several years, before returning to the Azteca stadium.