They do say that behind every great sports star is a driving-force partner who is there through the good times and the bad.
Lionel Messi's wife Antonela Roccuzz hasn't had to pick up the pieces too often in his glory-drenched career.
Having captured the Ballon D'or a record seven times, and with four time Champions League winner there's not been many years when she's been forced to pick her husband up from the floor.