You don't need hieght to do unthinkable things

A big adversity that Messi has faced in his life is his height. "Recognizably smaller than most of the boys he played with, Messi was eventually diagnosed by doctors as suffering from a hormone deficiency that restricted his growth." http://www.biography.com/people/lionel-messi-555732 So through this quote, you can probably tell that Messi isn't the tallest person you may come across. When Messi was eleven he was four foot and two inches.

At the age of thirteen, that's when Fc Barcelona started looking at him as a prospect and since Messi's parents couldn't afford the treatment for it, Fc Barcelona had Messi join the team as a youth prospect and paid for the treatment for him.  The pills that Messi took were called HGH growth hormone pills.  HGH pills are geared towards making your bones stronger and making you taller.  Messi needed this because of how small he was how because of that, his bones were week too.  Now Messi is twenty five years old and he stands at the height of five foot six and a half.

There are lots of people that say that Messi is cheating because of taking the pills and there are rules that you cannot take growth hormone pills in competitive sports but the rule specifically says that if you have a growth deficiency (which Messi has) then it is legal to take it.  Also even with taking the pills, Messi is still five foot six and a half and one of the smallest footballers in the world so the footballers that complain about him should be happy that he's not taller or else Messi would be even better than he is now, which is hard to imagine.

I feel that with how small Messi is, that he has done un imaginable things and that he has shocked the world.  I also think that people shouldn't complain about him taking the pills because he has a growth deficiency problem and he's still smaller than almost all of his opponents.  

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