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Messi s boyhood club Newell s Old Boys creates school for kids with disabilities
Lionel Messi s childhood club the famous Newell s Old Boys in Rosario has launched a football school for children with learning disabilities.
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Boys take part in a class at the Newells Old Boys Jorge B. Griffa training centre -an inclusive football school for children with Down Syndrome- in Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina on April 22, 2021. | MARCELO MANERA / AFP
Stefano may be just a kid, but he feels like a champion when he dribbles and scores like his beloved Lionel Messi.
The boy is one of nine children who just enrolled at the brand new football school for kids with learning disabilities, created by the Argentine great s childhood club Newell s Old Boys.