Worry No More! Scientist Reveals There Will Be Another Lionel Messi

As claimed by the head of the European Genome-Phenome Archive (EGA), Genetics expert Arcadi Navarro, the Argentina international and Barcelona star, Lionel Messi can be cloned successfully. 

During an interview session on Spanish radio station Cadena SER, Navarro made the revelation where he aid the player can have a double with the use of existing technology and techniques. 

Navarro said: “A clone of the Barcelona superstar would arrive as a baby with the same potential as one of the greatest players ever. Yes, Messi could be cloned with current techniques.”

“We would achieve a being very similar to Messi, the result would look like Messi’s twin, as if two twins had been born and we had frozen one of them for 20 or 30 years.”

”However, it is no guarantee that Mini-Messi would end up being as good as the real version – because of environmental and educational impacts as well as experience.”

The five-time Balon D’or winner signed for the Catalans as a 13-year-old from Argentina’s Newell’s Old Boys.

While growing up, Messi suffered a growth hormone deficiency and needed to have treatment for four years from the ages of 10 to 14 before he spent years at Barcelona’s academy, La Masia, honing his skills, before playing alongside the likes of Ronaldinho, Thierry Henry, Xavi and Andres Iniesta to become one of the best players in the world.

Navarro admits those factors make Messi the player he is today – something that might not be replicated in a cloned Messi. 

“This person could have the same potential as Messi, his qualities have a genetic component and another more educational, environmental.”

“Messi isn’t who he is only because of his genes, but because of everything he has lived through, his education, his stay in La Masia, the treatment he received. Genetics give us potential, then to fulfil it, it’s our own work.” The scientist added