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The Argentine star might be planning to visit Cuba after being awarded the prize for Best Latin American Athlete 2011

Visit Cuba could be in Leo Messi plans for the forthcoming 2012 after learning that has won the award for Best Latin American Athlete 2011 awarded by the agency Prensa Latina.

The player`s father, Jorge Messi, who has been unveiled plans stating that his son Leo is planning to visit Cuba on your next vacation in 2012.

After learning that has received this award, Jorge Messi revealed that his son is very proud because before I had only gotten a Argentine footballer Diego Maradona in 1986.

Messi with 38 votes to beat Usain Bolt, who was 32, and Luis Suarez, who got 29. Furthermore, the humanitarian work of Leo Messi for children thanks to its foundation has also been one of the points that have helped to opt for a number of world football.

The Argentine striker Leo Messi will have four more days of Christmas vacation the rest of the staff

Pep Guardiola has given rest to the January 2, while the rest of the team, but Dani Alves (31 December), will train on the 29th.

As reported by the Catalan club, the team returned to training on 29 December (19 hours) to prepare the match against Osasuna butler, who will be the first for the year.

Are then listed all the players in the squad with the exception of Messi and Alves. Guardiola has allowed Argentina´s prolonged stay few days in Argentina and the striker is called up for training on January 2.

Guardiola has also given permission to Dani Alves to return to training two days later, in his case on 31 December. The Brazilian, despite being on vacation, participated in the team`s final training session before the match to the Hospitalet butler.

In any case, to be seen whether the Argentina star rushes your holidays or return to the discipline of the team before time, as has happened in the past.

In the first practice of the year will be absent Andres Iniesta, who was injured during the encounter with the Hospitalet butler, suffering a break in the middle third of the femoral biceps of the left leg and will be fifteen days low.

Iniesta should recover during the holidays and will be lost, for sure, the first leg of the knockout Cup final against Osasuna and, quite possibly the league match against Espanyol Cornella-El Prat.

The other two injured players, both of long duration, are Ibrahim Afellay and David Villa. The Dutch may be available from March, while Villa, operated from a broken left tibia, is four to five months out.

Asturian striker could leave the clinic where it is joined from Barcelona last weekend in the coming hours.

They have not started well for Leo Messi vacation in Argentina. While in a bar in his native Rosario has been attacked, however, the player himself played down what happened

Leo Messi went to lunch on Thursday at the bar "The Milanese club" of Rosario with two friends. Out of the store, "after about three hours," the restaurant owner, Barca striker set to meet fans who were at the exit and had come to be photographed with him to identify the presence of Argentine striker in the local said. It was then suddenly approached by a hooded young man punched him. Messi, who was without any security, he chose to do nothing and left the place.

Furthermore, told the newspaper Olé, Barça player himself played down the incident. "Neither I played, I felt nothing and I learned after all the hype. Nothing happened, "said Messi.

This restaurant is located at the intersection of Pellegrini and President Roca of Rosario and its owner, Pablo Moyano, confirmed the attack in several Argentine media. According to some reports, the young offender would be a fifth-year student of Latin American school that would have declared follower of the team Rosario Central. Remember that Messi is Newell `s.

The FC Barcelona's Argentine striker, who is enjoying the Christmas holidays in his homeland, has asked "Santa Gift America's Cup."

The FC Barcelona's Argentine striker Lionel Messi, has confessed in his homeland, where he is enjoying the Christmas holidays, which aims by 2011 to "win" his first title with the "National Team of Argentina", Santa Claus what he has called "Gift Cup comments as "cute" which is marked "many goals, but also recognizes that" truth ", sometimes more enjoyable with" assistance to a fellow with a goal. " America.

"I will put everything to win, is the gift I want to do all Argentines. The people of my country deserves a great year," says 10 of the albiceleste in an interview with the newspaper Olé, gathered by Europa Press .

Taking stock of achievements in 2010, Lionel Messi, nominated for `Golden Ball 'Cup, thanks" can do "what he dreamed" the whole life, playing football and cheer up people. " Finally, the Argentine striker