Despite his tender age, Messi has amassed a staggering collection of trophies and records.
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Did Steinbrenner Jr. put you up to this, he has been known to be bitterly cranky and vindictive despite his young age?
Parmalat founder Calisto Tanzi is serving an eight-year sentence on market rigging related to the stunning 2003 collapse of his dairy empire despite his advanced age.
Despite his tender age, he believes he has raised his game to a level whereby he would now consider a year without a major triumph as a major failure.
New court filings continue--despite his 1997 death at age 74.
He died a tragic figure in 1953, having a stroke in Los Angeles as he prepared for a trip to play in the U.S. Pro Championships despite his 60 years of age.
And in April 2012 the European Court of Human Rights said Britain could deport a prisoner with four drugs convictions, despite his claim to have been in the country from the age of three.
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Yet that is precisely what he did, despite being at an age where he had yet to reach his peak, with most footballers performing best in their late 20's.
Despite his difficult start to life, Pistorius was keen on sport from an early age and competed in waterpolo, cricket, tennis, triathlons and Olympic wrestling and boxing before he smashed his knee while playing rugby at the age of 16.
Despite its young age, its reserve blend of shiraz and cabernet, served to the pope on his recent visit, was voted Brazil's number one wine last year.
Despite the age-old idea that each generation is more reckless than the last, Bieber and his famous peers don't appear to be rebelling so much as they're just getting older.
Simon Grim (James Urbaniak), the garbage-man poet of Woodside, Queens, is in prison, despite his Nobel Prize, while his ditzy sister Fay (Parker Posey) struggles to raise her difficult teen-age son (Liam Aiken).
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