A SCIENTIST has revealed it is possible to CLONE Lionel Messi using existing technology and techniques.
A clone of the Barcelona superstar would arrive as a baby with the same potential as one of the greatest players ever.
Genetics expert Arcadi Navarro, head of the European Genome-Phenome Archive (EGA) made the claim during an interview on Spanish radio station Cadena SER.
Navarro said: “Yes, Messi could be cloned with current techniques.
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“We would achieve a being very similar to Messi, the result would look like Messi’s twin, as if two twins had been born and we had frozen one of them for 20 or 30 years.”
However, it is no guarantee that Mini-Messi would end up being as good as the real version – because of environmental and educational impacts as well as experience.
The real Messi joined Barcelona as a tiny 13-year-old from Argentina’s Newell’s Old Boys.
He’d had growth hormone deficiency…
