The Braga coach, Carlos Vicens, highlighted that in this phase of the year, there are no easy victories when competing in European tournaments.
He also mentioned that the advantage Braga has is short, but considered valuable in continental competitions.
It has been established that the lineage of Argentina national team captain Lionel Messi has Brazilian roots. This was reported by the publication Globo, based on a genealogical study conducted by Italian historian Fiorentino Santini.
According to the study's results, one of Messi's maternal great-grandfathers, Federico Cucchettini, was born on January 27, 1904, in the city of Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo state, Brazil. His parents, Italians Ranero Cucchettini and Rosa Riccetta, arrived in Brazil aboard the ship 'Washington' in 1899 and began working on farms in the state of São Paulo.
According to the historian, the family name changed in Brazil. During the registration process, the name Arderigo Cucchettini was assigned the name Federico, and the surname Coccettini transformed into Cuccittini. Later, Messi's mother, Celia Maria Cuccittini, also bore this surname.
A year after Federico's birth, the family moved to the city of Rosario, Argentina. It was there that the footballer's grandfather, Antonio Cucchettini, and later Lionel Messi himself were born. Santini noted that his research began by studying the history of the Messi family from the time the footballer started shining at 'Barcelona'. The work to reconstruct the maternal branch of the family continued from 2019 to 2022.
In the historian's opinion, the surname Cuccittini, which is rarely found in Italy, played an important role in identifying the connection between the Messi family and Brazil. It is noted that Messi currently has no relatives living in Brazil, as the family left the country back in 1905 and moved to Argentina.
