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"Leo" Messi (Spanish pronunciation (listen), born June 24, 1987) is
an Argentine soccer player who plays as a striker for FC Barcelona. Often
considered the best player in the world, and is rated by many in the sport as
the greatest of all time, Messi is the only player in football history to win
five of the pulse gold football four, who won in a row, and the first player to
win three gold shoes in Europe with Barcelona won eight
league titles
and four titles in the Champions League and four COPAS del Rey. Both scorer
prolific designer and creative game, Messi holds the record for the greatest
number of goals scored in the League, the league season (50), a football season
(82), and the calendar year (91) and most play a crucial assists in La Liga and
the Copa America .
Born and raised in central
Argentina, Messi was diagnosed with a growth hormone deficiency in childhood.
At 13, he moved to Spain to Barcelona, who agreed to pay his medical
treatment costs. After a rapid rise through the youth ranks at Barcelona,
Messi gave his debut competitiveness October 17, 2004 at the age despite
being prone to injuries early in his career was a player joined the club over
the next three years, ending in 2007 in the finals of both the Golden Ball and
a player of world football this year, a feat repeated in the following year.
The owner of the first campaign of non-stop in the 2008-09 season, where he
helped Barcelona to their first hat-trick in the Spanish football. At 22, Messi
won the Golden Ball award and World Player of the Year voting record margins of
football.
It came three successful seasons with Messi to win three consecutive FIFA de balloons, or including room unprecedented. It was the best season so far in the season 2011-12, when he scored in the league and European records for most goals in a single season, while placing himself in Barcelona is known for the best scorer in March 2012. competitions officers struggling again with injuries during the next two seasons, twice runner for the Golden ball award behind Cristiano Ronaldo, his conception of race rival. Messi regained his best form during the 2014-15 campaign, breaking all-time top scorer in both folders and the Champions League in November 2014 and led Barcelona to a historic second trilogy.
Messi and former Argentina
international is the first time top scorer in the country. In the junior
category, he won the 2005 Juniors World Championship football, ending the
tournament with both the Golden Ball and Golden Boot and a gold medal at the
Summer Olympics in 2008. The playing style as a player with the ball a little
bit of the left foot, he will make comparisons with his compatriot Diego
Maradona, who said the young man behind him. After his debut in August 2005,
Messi became the youngest player to play and score in the World Cup in
Argentina in 2006, and reached the final of the Copa America in 2007, where he
was named young player tournament. As captain of the team in August 2011, which
led Argentina to three consecutive World Cup finals in 2014, which won the
Golden Ball and the 2015 and 2016 Copa America. After the final defeat fourth,
Messi has retired from international football 29 years, having represented his
country in the seven major championships. He was convicted later of tax fraud
conducted during the period from 2007 to 2009, which was fined and sentenced to
suspended prison sentences.
