Sergio Ramos: "There was suffering for several years playing against Messi. I am now enjoying him. He is the best player football has ever produced."

Mate. He suffered from growth hormone deficiency as a kid, meaning he was missing the hormones in the first place - it's not like it was supplementary to already normal levels. That's the only reason he took HGH as a child, from age 13-14 irrc, to get to the normal levels of growth hormone that every other child (that doesn't suffer from GHD) already has.

Besides, you can see from those videos of him play as a youngster for Newell's, that he was special even then. He went to try out at River and they immediately wanted to sign him, promised to pay for the treatment as well but newell's didn't let him. That was right before Barça came into the picture.

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