"I can clearly remember the first day that I saw Kun, that moment has remained etched in my memory," Messi writes in the foreword for Aguero's book. "Back then I didn't know who he was or even what he was called, let alone that I would later meet him in person or that, from then on, we would become great friends."
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When he was nine, he joined Independiente. At the age of 15 he became the youngest-ever player in Argentina's Primera Division, breaking a record held by Maradona. Another young boy from Argentina watched on. His name was Messi.
Messi knows all about rewriting the record books, with 250 goals in 248 league starts for Barcelona. Their brilliance bonds them together and has done since 2005 when they were the two youngest players in the Argentina Under-20 squad. "We roomed together at the Under-20 World Cup in Holland and we hit it off really well. So from that moment on, we have always shared a room together," Aguero says.
"In the barrio where I lived as a young boy, there was a football pitch right by my house," he says. "It was a very unique and unusual story that I only had to step out of my house and the pitch was right there for me to just go and have a kick about. "I have always loved football. That I'm here today is, I think, down to all the hard work put in and all the time spent at the age of five kicking a football around."
