Leo and Antonela’s eldest is celebrating his 11th birthday. Antonela shared an adorable post of her son wearing the Inter Miami CF kit and posing as a seasoned player. “Happy birthday, Thiagui,” she wrote in Spanish. “You’ll always be my baby.” The post got thousands of likes and comments, including one from Inter Miami CF, dropping black and pink hearts, representing the team’s official colors.

Thiago was born in 2012 to Leo and Antonela. The parents continued to expand their family in the years that followed, welcoming Mateo in 2015 and Ciro in 2018.

Messi has often spoken about the importance of parenthood and how it’s affected him. “You grow and you learn,” he told F.C. Barcelona. “You gather experience in all aspects of life, on and off the field. But, as a human being, having three children changed my perspective on life, my way of thinking and it also helped me grow.”