Personal Life
Gago, Sergio Agüero and Lionel Messi had all been teammates as children back in Argentina. Together, the three of them won the 2005 FIFA World Youth Championship in the Netherlands.
Also, he won the 2008 Olympics with Argentina.
Fernando Gago is also a literature and art enthusiast. The first thing he did after landing in Spain was visit the Museo del Prado. He earned the nickname El Pintita (roughly meaning "the little one trying to look good") ever since Ramón Maddoni scolded him for playing with his hair. Also, his Boca Juniors teammates would call him so because his youth squad coach would scold him "stop trying to look good and run!"
Gago is married to professional tennis player Gisela Dulko.
Fernando is well-known among football fans in the Philippines due to his surname, Gago, which is a word in the Filipino language that means "crazy" or "insane."
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