Lionel Messi

Age: 23
Occupation: Soccer superstar
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Named the world's best player two years in a row, the Argentine forward routinely earns comparisons with another diminutive countryman with magic feet: Diego Maradona. Unlike Maradona, however, Lionel Messi is a paragon of clean living and good behavior, on and off the pitch.

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