Messi opens up on painful decision he and Antonela made to leave behind their dog hulk.
Messi opens up on painful decision he & Antonela made to leave behind their dog. Lionel Messi's move to the MLS came with the costly pain of having to leave the family's pet Bordeaux Mastiff at his home in Barcelona. The decision to leave behind Hulk was due in part to the seven-year-old mutt's health, Argentine comedian Migue Granados revealed this weekend after recording an interview with the 2023 World Cup champion at his home in Miami. Granados learned of the family decision after joking that he was going to stuff Abu, their pet poodle, into a backpack and ask for a large ransom following last Thursday's interview for his program on OLGA, a streaming network. But he was surprised that Hulk was nowhere to be seen. 'I asked him where that bull was and he told me, 'He's in Barcelona, Hulk is there. He is a little old. So, we had to leave him in the house we have there in Barcelona,' Granados shared. The 36-year-old Messi welcomed Hulk into the famil...