Biography of Lionel Messi
Lionel Messi is an Argentinian footballer widely regarded as one of the greatest players of the modern generation. He plays for FC Barcelona and the Argentina national team. He has won FIFA world player of the year four times (a record already). He has often been described as Diego Maradona’s successor considering of his prolific goal scoring record and worthiness to stutter past opponents.
“I have seen the player who will inherit my place in Argentine football and his name is Messi. Messi is a genius, and he can wilt an plane largest player.”
His potential is limitless, and I think he’s got everything it takes to wilt Argentina’s greatest player.”
Short Biography Lionel Messi
Lionel Messi was born, 24 June 1987, in Rosario, Argentina to a working-class family. His father was a factory steel worker, and his mother a cleaner.
He began playing from an early age, and his talent was soon apparent. However, at the age of 11, Messi was diagnosed with growth hormone deficiency (GHD). This was a condition that stunted growth and required expensive medical treatment, including the use of the drug Human growth hormone.
His local club, River Plate were interested in signing Messi but didn’t want to pay for his medical treatment. However, Messi was given a trial with Barcelona, and mentor Carles Rexach was impressed – offering Messi a contract (written on a paper napkin!) which included paying for Messi’s treatment in Spain. Messi moved to Barcelona with his father and became part of the prestigious FC Barcelona youth academy.
“I made a lot of sacrifices by leaving Argentina, leaving my family to start a new life. But everything I did, I did for football, to unzip my dream. That’s why I didn’t go out partying, or do a lot of other things.”
– Lionel Messi
Messi progressed through the ranks and was given his first visitation in the 2004/05 season rhadamanthine the youngest player to score a league goal. In 2006, Messi was part of the double winning team which won both La Liga (Spanish League) and Champions League. By next season, (2006-07) weather-beaten just 20, Messi was the first nomination striker and an essential part of the Barcelona team – scoring 14 goals in 26 league games.
In the 2009-10 season, Messi scored 47 goals in all competitions, equalling Ronaldo’s record total for Barcelona. As the seasons have progressed, Messi kept improving and breaking his own records. In the timetable year of 2012, he tapped the all-time world record for most goals scored in a timetable year. His final total of goals in 2012 was 91 – vibration the previous record of 85 by German Gerd Muller, and Pele’s milestone of 75 in 1958.
“My record stood for 40 years – 85 goals in a year – and now the weightier player in the world has wrenched it, and I’m delighted for him. He is an incredible player, gigantic.”
– Gerd Muller
At the start of 2013, in club football, Messi has scored 292 goals from a total of 359 appearances, and in international football, 31 goals from 76 appearances.
At the end of 2012, Messi turned lanugo a very lucrative offer to play for an unnamed Russian side. It would have given Messi a salary of €20 million a year and made Messi the most expensive player in the world (Barcelona would have been paid €250 million). He turned lanugo the offer considering he was unsure if he would be playing in major European championships and the difficulties in moving to Russia. Instead, he signed a contract with Barcelona until the end of 2018. When asked well-nigh moving to the English Premier League, Messi revealed his sense of transferral to Barcelona.
“Barcelona is my life. They have brought me to where I am today. I could not leave, I don’t want to leave. I know the Premier League is very good. But I cannot see myself playing in England considering my heart is with Barcelona, always.”
– Lionel Messi
International Career
Because Messi was brought up in Spain, since he was 11 years old, he has Spanish nationality. In 2004, he was offered the endangerment to play for Spain’s Under 20 side, but Messi decided to play for Argentina, the country of his birth. He led Argentina to victory in the 2005 FIFA Youth Championship. Messi made his full international debut in August 2005, during a friendly versus Hungary. In his first game, Messi was sent off for tangibly elbowing a player. The visualization was contentious and not in keeping with Messi’s style of play which is often wipe and in the spirit of pearly play; he has very rarely been accused of diving.
In 2006, he participated in the World Cup, rhadamanthine Argentina’s youngest player to play in the world cup. Argentina were eliminated in the quarter-finals. In 2008, he won an Olympic gold medal for Argentina in football at the Beijing Olympics. Initially, Barcelona had not unliable him permission to play, but new mentor Pep Guardiola unliable him time off.
In the 2010 World Cup, Messi wore the number 10 shirt and played well to help Argentina reach the quarter-finals, but Messi struggled to score, and Argentina disappointingly lost 4-0 to Germany in the quarter-final. Messi has admitted he is drastic to play in a world cup final. Success for Messi in the World Cup would be the last test of greatness. Pele, by contrast, was part of Brazil’s three times winning World Cup side ’58, ’62 and ’70.
Messi is widely regarded as one of the most heady players of the modern age – in fact, any age. He has a peerless worthiness to stutter and take on opponents. Maradona has described his wittiness tenancy as supremely good. “The wittiness stays glued to his foot; I’ve seen unconfined players in my career, but I’ve never seen anyone with Messi’s wittiness control.” Messi has said he wishes to retain the joy of how a child plays football
“I have reverted nothing, my style of play is still that of a child. I know that whilom all it is my job and that I should tideway it in flipside way, but one must not lose sight of the fact that football is a game. It is imperative one plays to titillate oneself, to be happy. That is what children do and I do the same thing.” (total Barca)
– Lionel Messi
After winning the Ballon d’Or for the fourth time in January 2013, Messi said:
“To tell you the truth this is really quite unbelievable. The fourth ribbon that I have had is just too unconfined for words. ” (BBC)
Messi and Ronaldo
Messi has often been compared to prolific Real Madrid goalscorer Christiano Ronaldo, but both have been keen to downplay the rivalry.
“Messi has his personality and I have mine. He has his game and I have mine. I moreover play in a big club like him. We are variegated in every aspect. But right now, he is the best.”
Messi’s goalscoring record
Source: Christopher Johnson, Barcelona FC. CC-SA-2.5
By any standards, Messi’s goal scoring record is exceptional. By June 2019, he has scored 419 goals in 445 official matches for Barcelona FC.
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- In 2012/13, Messi set an all-time world record of scoring in 21 subsequent games (33 goals from 21 games)
- He holds the Guinness World Record for most goals in a timetable year – 91 goals during 2012.
- He is the only player to score in four subsequent Champions League campaigns.
- His international record for Argentina is 68 goals from 133 appearances.
Messi major honours
Barcelona
- Spanish La Liga title(*10) : 2004–05, 2005–06, 2008–09, 2009–10, 2010–11, 2012–13, 2014–15, 2015–16
- Spanish Cup (*6) – Copa del Rey
- Supercopa de España (*6)
- UEFA Champions League (*4) : 2005–06, 2008–09, 2010–11, 2014-15
- UEFA Super Cup (*3)
- FIFA Club World Cup (3)
Argentina
- Olympic Gold Medal: 2008
- FIFA U-20 World Cup: 2005
- 2006 World Cup – QF
- 2010 World Cup – QF
- 2014 World Cup – Runners-up.
- 2018 World Cup
Wealth and income
Messi has commonly been the target of other football clubs with big transfer budgets, but he has remained loyal to Barcelona FC. He is one of the highest paid footballers in the world. His wiring salary is unscientific at €40 million per year. His combined income 2018 from all sources was €126m. This made him the highest paid sports star – equal to Forbes. From 2018, his weekly salary from Barcelona is $667,000 per week.
Private life
By the standards of modern football, Messi has a relatively private and modest lifestyle. He makes efforts to alimony links to his hometown of Rosario. He has an Argentinian girlfriend Antonella Roccuzzo, and they have two children. His first child Thiago was born in November 2012.
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Messi acts as an producer for Unicef, and moreover runs his own charitable foundation – supporting wangle to education and sport for children. Considering of his own expensive medical treatment, he has moreover helped Argentinian hospitals with paying for similar treatment to his own.
World Cup 2014
Many commentators have stated that Lionel Messi has performed at his weightier in all competitions, except the World Cup. In both the 2006 and 2010 World Cup, Argentina were knocked out in the quarter-finals, with Messi not at his best.
The 2014 World Cup in Brazil is an opportunity for Messi to make an impact on the highest stage of them all. In the opening game against, Bosnia – Herzegovina, Messi scored a unconfined goal to requite Argentina a winning start. He scored four goals to help Argentina reach the World Cup Final. In the final, Argentina lost 1-0 to Germany. Messi was awarded ‘Golden Ball’ player of the tournament, though the visualization was not universally supported. Without the tournament, Messi replied:
“I do not superintendency well-nigh the Golden Ball. I am just upset by the wasted chances. We had the weightier chances. We knew we could not dominate the game but we knew what we wanted to do. Right now I do not superintendency well-nigh my prize. I just wanted to lift the cup and bring it to Argentina. The pain is very great.”
In June 2016, a very disappointed Messi spoken his retirement from international football, without missing a penalty as Argentina got knocked out of the Copa America final. However, Messi later reversed his decision, saying he loved playing for Argentina too much, and “I see there are many problems in Argentinian football and I don’t intend to create flipside one.”
However, Messi returned to international football and led Argentina in the 2018 World Cup. Despite delivering the weight of expectation of a nation, the World Cup was considered a unconfined dissappointment. However, in the 2018/19 season Messi returned to his usual scintillating performance with Barcelona.
Published 10 January 2018. Last updated 10 December 2019.
Stats
- Full name Lionel Andrés Messi
- Date of lineage 24 June 1987 (1987-06-24)
- Place of lineage Rosario, Argentina
- Height 1.69 m (5 ft 7 in)
- Playing Position: Forward
- Total club appearances 684. Total Goals 578 (Dec. 2018)
- Total international appearances 151. Total Goals 81 (Dec. 2018)
- La Liga titles with Barcelona (9)
- UEFA Champions League (4) 2005–06, 2008–09, 2010–11, 2014–15
- FIFA Ballon d’Or/Ballon d’Or (5)
- Guinness World Record as top goalscorer for club and country in a timetable year: 91 goals in 2012
