World Player of the Year Lionel Messi and AS Roma striker Bojan Krkic are distant cousins
A recently conducted research conducted by Catalan newspaper, Segre, about the lineage of http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Bojan-Krkic-c7794 has revealed that the two are distant cousins.
It was common knowledge that the two players were related but the study has proven that the two have blood links. The Barcelona academy graduates share great-grandfathers and have common ancestry.
This was determined after looking into their birth certificates and intricate observation of their family trees.
The great-grandfathers of Messi and Bojan hailed from the village of Pla d’Urgell and were in fact brothers.
Families of La Masia graduates share the name Perez and this fueled excitement about their common ancestry. The knowledge that their ancestors migrated from Teruel to Poal back in the nineteenth century added strength to the speculations.
In 1846, Mariano Perez Miralles married Teresa Llobera Minguet, which started the connection between the two families.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Ramón-c30536 Pérez Llobera (born 1859) and Pérez Gonçales Llobera (1868), the great-great-grandfathers of Messi and Bojan
For decades, both families lived in Spain until Messi's grandmother, Rosa Maria Perez Mateu, married an Argentinean and subsequently moved to South http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/America-c38390. Meanwhile, Krkic’s (born in Linyola / Catalonia) Serbian father took Lluisa Pérez as his wife.
However, the distant cousins are enjoying very different footballing careers. Bojan and Messi came through La Masia, enjoying first team football from a very young age.
While Messi is regarded as the best player in the world, his distant cousin is having a difficult time to emulating him.
Once predicted as the future of Barcelona and http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Roma-c31603 to continue his footballing development away from Camp Nou.
He looks to have hit another roadblock in the Italian capital, resigned to the bench in the recent succession of victories.
On the other hand, Messi is enjoying unprecedented success in his footballing career. The 24-year-old is the captain of http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Barcelona-c38604 squad.
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