They must have. It may have been because of the medical treatment he underwent. I can't really find anything through Google. Certainly his parents moved over at the time, and they really wanted to sign him, so they could have made an exception and sorted the parents with jobs to enable them move over too. You wouldn't do that for every underage player of course, but if there was one who shone like Messi, you might make an exception.
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