The story behind Messi's photo with a future Spanish superstar

It's 2007, and 20-year-old Barcelona superstar Lionel Messi quietly slinks out of the Camp Nou player change rooms and into another room next door.With his shoulder length hair and white hoodie, there's something vaguely biblical about the man who would become arguably the greatest player that football has ever seen.He's shepherded in by his minders, a photographer fussing about in front of him, test flashes going off as all eyes fall on the Argentinian superstar.Messi's eyes, though, trace towards a young mother and her tiny baby boy.If not for the lack of frankincense and myrrh — and the comparative glamour of Camp Nou to a stable — it could have looked like a scene straight out of Bethlehem.Sheila Ebana is just 16 and from Equatorial Guinea She had been working as a waitress in Catalonia when she fell pregnant to Mounir Nasraoui, originally from Morocco, with the pair settling in the town of Mataró.It was there that the couple raised their little boy, winning a Unicef raffle to score a photo shoot with Messi in one of the most iconic football stadiums in the world.That little boy was Lamine Yamal, the 19-year-old Spanish wunderkind who will take on Messi in Monday morning's (AEST) FIFA World Cup final."They signed up for the raffle to have their picture taken at the Camp Nou with a Barça player," Associated Press photographer Joan Monfort said."And they won the raffle."It was for a calendar photo shoot, and at that time, Messi — now a father of three boys — had little idea what he was doing."Messi is a pretty introverted guy, he's shy," Monfort said."He was coming out of the locker room and suddenly he finds himself in another locker room with a plastic tub full of water and a baby in it. "It was complicated