As sunshine flushed into the doctor’s office, 11-year-old Lionel Messi anxiously waited for the diagnosis of Growth Hormone Deficiency after a year of testing. The young superstar of the youth club Newell’s Old Boys has led the team to be unbeatable, losing only one game in four years, with young Messi himself scoring 500 goals as the member of “The Machine of ‘87”. However, his family has realised that there is something different about the boy other than his prodigious talent – after measuring his height for 24 months, the doctor has found out that he has barely grown since the age of nine. He was 4 feet 4 inches tall (1.32m), and it was predicted that he would only grow to a maximum height of 4 feet 7 inches (1.40m) without intervention.