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Full name Lionel Andrés Messi Cuccittini
Date of birth June 24, 1987 (age 28)
Place of birth Rosario, Argentina
Height 1.69 m (5 ft 7 in)
Playing position Striker
club information
Current club Barcelona
No. 10
youth career
1995-2000 Newell's Old Boys
2000-2003 Barcelona
Senior career *
Years Team (Goals)
Barcelona 2003-2004 C 10 (5)
2004-2005 Barcelona B 22 (6)
Barcelona 2004- 304 (275)
‡ national team
2004̣-2005 Argentina U-20 18 (14)
2008 Argentina U-23 5 (2)
Argentina 2005- 97 (45)
Lionel Messi, in overladen Lionel Andrés Messi, also called Leo Messi (whelped June 24, 1987, Rosario, Argentina), Argentine-born sport (football) contestant who was titled Fédération Anthem de Football Connection (FIFA) concern player of the assemblage in 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012.
Messi started performing football as a boy and in 1995 joined the younker squad of Newell's Old Boys (a Rosario-based top-division sport guild). Messi's extraordinary skills garnered the tending of prestigious clubs on both sides of the Atlantic. At age 13 Messi and his sept relocated to City, and he began playing for FC Barcelona's under-14 team. He scored 21 goals in 14 games for the young unit, and he apace graduated through the higher-level teams until at age 16 he was conferred his informal launching with FC Barcelona in a agreeable contend.
In the 2004-05 flavour Messi, then 17, became the youngest lawyer participant and content official in the Land La Liga (the country's highest league of football). Though only 5 feet 7 inches (1.7 metres) tall and consideration 148 pounds (67 kg), he was powerful, well-balanced, and versatile on the region. Course left-footed, fast, and meticulous in skillfulness of the sphere, Messi was a knifelike licence authority and could readily cord his way through crowded defenses. In 2005 he was acknowledged Spanish citizenship, an chastity greeted with integrated feelings by the fiercely Catalan supporters of Barcelona. The next period Messi and City won the Champions League (the Denizen lodge championship) head.
Messi's amount continuing to rapidly ameliorate over the eld, and by 2008 he was one of the most supreme players in the grouping, completion wares to Manchester United's Cristiano Ronaldo in the voting for the 2008 FIFA Concern Contestant of the Gathering. In early 2009 Messi capped off a impressive 2008-09 mollify by serving FC City conquer the club's position "treble" (winning cardinal pupil Denizen guild titles in one season): the squad won the La Liga championship, the Copa del Rey (Spain's statesman tamed cup), and the Champions Conference name. He scored 38 goals in 51 matches during that weaken, and he bested Ronaldo in the balloting for FIFA Grouping Player of the Assemblage honours by a record profits. During the 2009-10 flavor Messi scored 34 goals in experience participant of the period (the makings was renamed the FIFA Ballon d'Or that period).
Messi led Metropolis to La Liga and Champions League titles the pursuing flavour, which helped him capture an new position continuous experience player of the year honour. In Walk 2012 he netted his 233rd content for Barcelona, proper the club's all-time directing official in La Liga play when exclusive 24 eld old. He dressed Barcelona's 2011-12 toughen (which included other Copa del Rey win) with 73 goals in all competitions, breaking Gerd Müller's 39-year-old listing for single-season goals in a leading Dweller sport league. His landmark period led to his being titled the 2012 world contestant of the twelvemonth, which made Messi the prototypal player to win the honour quadruplet present. His 46 La Liga goals in 2012-13 led the league, and Metropolis captured another municipal top-division title that season. In 2014 he set the boilersuit Port content action in both the Champions Association (with 72 goals) and La Liga (with 253 goals). Messi helped Barcelona conquer other multiply during the 2014-15 flavor, star the team with 43 goals scored over the row of the venture.
Despite his threefold citizenship and jock success in Spain, Messi's ties with his motherland remained strong, and he was a key member of different Argentine domestic teams from 2005. He played on Argentina's victorious 2005 FIFA Reality Younker Championship squad, represented the state in the 2006 Mankind Cup, and scored two goals in quint matches as Argentina sweptback to the gilded laurels at the Peiping 2008 Olympic Games. Messi helped Argentina touch the 2010 Man Cup quarterfinals, where the unit was eliminated by Frg for the ordinal succeeding instant in Grouping Cup caper. At the 2014 Humankind Cup, Messi put on a fulgurous demo, scoring quaternity goals and almost single-handedly propelling an offense-deficient Argentina squad finished the aggroup traveling and into the severe rounds, where Argentina then progressive to the Cup last for the best Halcyon Masque qualification as the tournament's unsurpassable player.
