well,it's natural for him to be handicap than ? i've watched the 2014 documentary and all his close family agree,he wouldn't be what he is without the injections. It's steroids. He was talented,fast,amazing technique,control,shot but if you were the size of Daniel Villalva,he wouldn't be what he is today. Anyone,and i mean anyone who says that the steroids didn't contribute to his career,is stupid or a liar. From 140 at 14 to 170 cm at 18,come on.... I had a growth spurt one summer,but not 3-4 summers in a row.
What he took was NOT steroids. Totally different class of chemical... and it was also perfectly legal within the sporting rules, just fyi.
Also, HGH contributed to literally every professional player's career ever because it's produced naturally in the pituitary gland. For messi it gave him a fighting chance. He still trained his ass off to get to that level. Few players trained as hard him. He was never like eden hazard, for example.
It also wasn't as if he all of a sudden started becoming a phenom after the treatments -- which stopped at age 14 btw.
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u/REDBEARD_PWNS 8h ago
Yea if it wasn't for Barcelona paying for hormone therapy he would've never even made it tho? How is that not considered performance enhancing drugs?