Hernan Mastrangelo, a 100-year-old former chocolatier and a fan of Argentine soccer star Lionel Messi, holds his handwritten notes of Messi's goals, in Buenos Aires, Argentina July 20, 2021. Picture taken July 20, 2021. REUTERS/Miguel Lo Bianco
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Hernán Mastrángelo, a 100-year-old grandfather in Argentina, has gone viral after it emerged that for years he had been taking handwritten notes of almost every goal scored by local hero and Barcelona star Lionel Messi.
Mastrángelo, a chocolate maker by profession, made it his hobby to keep track of each of Messi's goals, an achievement his grandson Julián has announced on social media, catching people's imagination including the striker himself.
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