Biodata Lionel Messi :Full name Lionel Andrés Messi
Nickname: Leo,La Pulga,La Pulga Atómica ,"Semidios","Messi-ah"
Date of birth June 24, 1987 (age 21)
Place of birth: Rosario, Argentina
Height: 1.69 m (5 ft 7 in)
Position: Shadow Striker, Attacking midfielder, Striker
Current club: Fc Barcelona
Number : 10
Junior Club:
2000-2004 Newell's Old Boys FC Barcelona B
Senior Clubs: 2004 - FC Barcelona 55 (26)
National Team: 2005 - Argentina 22 (6)
Club career
Barcelona
Messi organised his official debut for the first team in a friendly fit against José Mourinho's Porto on 16 November 2003 (at 16 years and 145 days). Less than a year resultant, Frank Rijkaard let him generate his league debut against Espanyol on 16 October 2004 (at 17 years and 114 days), becoming the third-youngest performer ever to play for Barcelona and youngest club performer any person who played in La Liga (a record contravened by team mate Bojan Krkić in September 2007). When he scored his first senior objective for the club against Albacete on 1 May 2005, Messi was 17 years, 10 months and 7 days old, becoming the youngest to ever score in a La Liga game for Barcelona until 2007 after Bojan Krkić cracked this record, scoring from a Messi assist. Messi said come seal his ex-coach Rijkaard: "I'll never forget the sighting that he launched my career, that he had confidence in me where I was simply sixteen or seventeen."
2005–06 season
The Maradona and Pele polemics will end.
Diego Maradona, on the upshots if Messi won the 2010 World Cup On 16 September, for the second time in three months, Barcelona transmitted an update to Messi's contract; this time it was transformed to compensate him as a first team member and lengthened until June 2014. Messi accepted Spanish citizenship on 26 September 2005 and was ultimately able to generate his debut in the season's Spanish First Division. Messi's first home outing in the Champions League came on 27 September against Italian club Udinese. Fans at Barcelona's stadium, the Camp Nou, gave Messi a standing ovation upon his substitution, as his composure on the ball and surpassing combinations with Ronaldinho had compensated dividends for Barcelona.
Messi netted six objectives in 17 league attainments, and scored one Champions League objective in six. His season ended prematurely on 7 March 2006, however, after he suffered a muscle shred in his right thigh during the second leg of the second throughout Champions League tie against Chelsea. Rijkaard's Barcelona ended the season as heroic separate population of Spain and Europe.
2006–07 season
Messi in a fit against Rangers in 2007
In the 2006–07 season, Messi positioned himself as a regular first team performer, scoring 14 times in 26 matches. On 12 November, in the game against Real Zaragoza, Messi suffered a contravened metatarsal, administering him out for three months. Messi recuperated from his injury in Argentina, and his return to motion came against Racing Santander on 11 February, where he came on as a second-half substitute. On 11 March, El Clásico saw Messi in seal type, scoring a hat-trick to earn 10-man Barcelona a 3–3 draw, equalising three times, with the final equaliser originating in injury time. In doing so he became the first performer since Iván Zamorano (for Real Madrid in the 1994–95 season) to score a hat-trick in El Clásico. Messi is also the youngest performer ever to have scored in this fixture. Towards the end of the season he started locating the net more often; 11 of his 14 league objectives for the season came from the terminal 13 games.
Messi before long in the past scoring a objective against Getafe
Messi also proved the "new Maradona" tag was not all hype, by virtually reproducing Maradona's bulk renowned objectives in the space of the single season. On 18 April 2007, he scored couple objectives during a Copa del Rey semi-final against Getafe, one of which was very interchangeable to Maradona's renowned objective against England at the 1986 World Cup in Mexico, known as the Goal of the Century. The world's sports press drew comparisons with Maradona, and the Spanish press called Messi as "Messidona". He outpoured come seal the same distance, 62 metres (203 ft), overcome the same diagram of players (six, surrounding the goalkeeper), scored from a very interchangeable placement, and outpoured towards the corner flag just as Maradona did in Mexico 21 years before. In a press group assemblage later the game, Messi's team-mate Deco said: "It was the best objective I have ever supposed in my life." Against Espanyol Messi also scored a objective which was remarkably interchangeable to Maradona's 'Hand of God' objective against England in the World Cup quarter-finals. Messi launched himself at the ball and joined combined with his hand to manoeuver the ball past the goalkeeper Carlos Kameni.[45] Despite protests by Espanyol players and replays demonstrating it was remove handball, the objective stood.
2007–08 season
Messi takes Barcelona to 2–0 against Sevilla at Camp Nou on 22 September 2007
During the 2007–08 season, Messi scored five objectives in a week directing Barcelona to the seal four in La Liga. On 19 September he scored once as Barcelona defeated Lyon 3–0 at home in a Champions League match. He scored couple objectives against Sevilla on 22 September and afterward on 26 September, Messi scored another couple objectives in a 4–1 victory through Real Zaragoza.[48] On 27 February, Messi played in his 100th official fit for Barcelona against Valencia.
Messi was selected for a FIFPro World XI Player Award below the category of Forward. A poll pursued in the online edition of the Spanish newspaper Marca had him as the best performer in the world with 77 per 100 of the vote. Columnists from Barcelona-based broadcasting El Mundo Deportivo and Sport stated that the Ballon d'Or ought be given to Messi, a outlook encouraged by Franz Beckenbauer. Football personalities such as Francesco Totti have documented that they examine Messi to be one of the existing best footballers in the world.
Messi was sidelined for six weeks pursuing an injury on 4 March after he suffered a muscle shred in his withdrew thigh during a Champions League fit against Celtic. It was the fourth time in three seasons that Messi suffered this breeding of injury.
2008–09 season
Messi in a fit against Deportivo La Coruña
Upon Ronaldinho's leaving from the club, Messi inherited his diagram 10 jersey. On 1 October 2008, during a Champions League fit against Shakhtar Donetsk, Messi scored couple objectives during the terminal seven minutes, later originating on as a substitute for Thierry Henry, to turn a 1–0 deficit to a 2–1 victory for Barcelona. The subsequent league game was versus Atlético Madrid, a fit billed as a friendly military between Messi and his good associate Sergio Agüero. Messi scored a objective from a loose kick and augmented another as Barça went on to win the fit 6–1. Messi netted another noble brace against Sevilla scoring a volley from 23 metres (25 yd) and afterward dribbling throughout the goalkeeper and scoring from a tight curved component for the other. On 13 December 2008, during the first Clásico of the season, Messi scored the second objective in Barcelona's 2–0 win through Real Madrid. He was also called second in the 2008 FIFA World Player of the Year awards with 678 points.
Messi scored his first hat-trick of 2009 in a Copa del Rey tie against Atlético Madrid which Barcelona won 3–1. Messi scored another noteworthy double on 1 February 2009, originating on as a second half substitute to assist Barcelona defeat Racing Santander 1–2 later being 1–0 down. The second of the couple bangs was Barcelona's 5000th league goal. In the 28th throughout of La Liga, Messi scored his 30th objective of the season in all skirmishes, alleviating his team to a 6–0 victory through Málaga in the process. On 8 April 2009, he scored two times against Bayern Munich in the Champions League, setting a bodily record of eight objectives in the competition. On 18 April, Messi notched his 20th league objective of the season in a 1–0 win at Getafe, commending Barcelona to continue their six-point gain at the seal of the league office desk through Real Madrid.
As Barcelona's season was drawing to a seal, Messi scored two times (his 35th and 36th objectives in all competitions) to cap a 6–2 win through Real Madrid at the Santiago Bernabéu in what was Real's heaviest defeat since 1930. After scoring each objective, he outpoured towards the fans and the cameras elevating higher his Barcelona jersey and demonstrating another T-shirt that read Síndrome X Fràgil, Catalan for Fragile X Syndrome, to demonstrate his encourage for youngsters any person who suffer from the affliction. Messi was fascinated in the build-up to Andrés Iniesta's injury time objective against Chelsea in the Champions League semi-final to send Barcelona through to face Manchester United in the final. He won his first Copa del Rey on 13 May, scoring one objective and joining another couple, in a 4–1 victory through Athletic Bilbao. He alleviated his team win the double by winning La Liga. On 27 May he alleviated Barcelona win the Champions League by scoring a second objective in the 70th very small compensating Barcelona a couple objective lead; he also became the seal scorer in the Champions League, the youngest in the tournament's history, with nine goals. Messi also won the UEFA Club Forward of the Year: and the UEFA Club Footballer of the Year turning off a striking year in Europe. This victory meant Barcelona had won the Copa del Rey, La Liga and Champions League in the one season, and was the first time a Spanish club had ever won the treble.
2009–10 season
"Once he's on the run, Messi is unstoppable. He's the simply performer any person who can modification command at such a pace."
"He is the best performer in the world by numerous distance. He's (like) a PlayStation. He can take gain of every error we make."
Arsène Wenger later Barcelona won 4–1 against Arsenal.
Messi in motion during the Joan Gamper Trophy fit between Barcelona and Manchester City at Camp Nou
After winning the 2009 UEFA Super Cup, Barcelona overseer Josep Guardiola claimed that Messi was perhaps the best performer he had ever seen. On 18 September, Messi signalled a novel contract with Barcelona, running until 2016 and with a buy-out clause of €250 million included, taking in Messi, along with Zlatan Ibrahimović, the highest compensated players in La Liga, with wages of round object €9.5 million yearly. Four days resultant, on 22 September, Messi scored couple objectives and augmented another in Barça's 4–1 win through Racing Santander in La Liga. He scored his first European objective of the season on 29 September in a 2–0 win through Dynamo Kyiv,[80] and afterward took his objective count to six objectives in seven sporting activities in La Liga with a assault during a 6–1 routing of Real Zaragoza at Camp Nou.
Messi was called winner of the 2009 Ballon d'Or on 1 December 2009, overcoming runner-up Cristiano Ronaldo by utmost ever margin of 473 to 233. Afterwards, France Football magazine quoted Messi as saying: "I commit it to my family. They were regularly prevailing after I was deficient them and sometimes discerned even stronger emotions than me."
Messi during 2009 FIFA Club World Cup.
On 19 December, Messi scored the winner in the final of the 2009 Club World Cup against Estudiantes in Abu Dhabi, compensating the club their sixth label of the year. Two days resultant, he was given the FIFA World Player of the Year award; overcoming Cristiano Ronaldo, Xavi, Kaká and Andrés Iniesta to the award. This was the first time he had won the award, and he became the first Argentinean to ever receive this honour. On 10 January 2010, Messi scored his first hat-trick in 2010 and his first hat-trick of the season against Tenerife in the 0–5 victory, and on 17 January he scored his 100th objective for the club in the 4–0 victory through Sevilla.
Messi afterward commenced an noble run scoring 11 objectives in five games. First he scored on the 84th very small against Málaga for a 2–1 win, afterward he scored couple objectives against Almería in a 2–2 tie. He persisted his spree with an noble week where he scored eight goals; he commenced by scoring a hat-trick against Valencia in a 3–0 home win, afterward he scored couple objectives against Stuttgart, in a 4–0 win that attached Barcelona's qualification to the quarterfinals of the Champions League, and ultimately he scored another hat-trick against Zaragoza in a 4–2 away win, becoming the first Barcelona performer to score back-to-back hat-tricks in La Liga. He played his 200th official fit for Barcelona against Osasuna on 24 March 2010.
On 6 April 2010, for the first time in Messi's career he scored four objectives in a single fit, netting the lot in a 4–1 home win through Arsenal in the Champions League quarter-final second leg. This also saw him go beyond Rivaldo as Barcelona's all time largest scorer in the competition. On 10 April, Messi scored his 40th objective of the season after he netted the first objective in a 2–0 away win against title-rivals Real Madrid in El Clásico. On 1 May, Messi played his 50th game of the season and scored couple objectives on a 4–1 away win against Villarreal. Just three days resultant, on 4 May, Messi scored couple objectives in another 4–1 win at home against Tenerife. Messi scored his 32nd objective of the La Liga season on 8 May, during an away win against Sevilla, and in the final fit against Valladolid, he scored couple objectives in the second half to tie Ronaldo's club record of 34 objectives in a single league season, set in 1996–97, and to final view four objectives behind the all-time record held by Telmo Zarra. He was called La Liga performer of the year for the second year in a row on 3 June 2010.
2010–11 season
On 21 August 2010, Messi scored a hat-trick in his first commence of the season in a 4–0 victory through Sevilla in the Supercopa de España, alleviating Barcelona shut higher their first trophy of the season later a 1–3 first leg loss. He also started his league season with a objective, scoring later just 3 minutes against Racing Santander on 29 August 2010. He afterward persisted his excellent type into the UEFA Champions League assembly point fit against Panathinaikos where he scored 2 objectives, augmented another 2 and also beat the goal-frame on 2 separate occasions. He also missed a chastisement, though. Barcelona won the fit 5–1.
On 19 September 2010, Messi suffered an ankle injury due to an ill-advised tackle by Atlético Madrid defender Tomáš Ujfaluši in the 92nd very small of their Round 3 fit at the Vicente Calderón Stadium. At first sight it was was dismayed that Messi suffered a contravened ankle that could have saved the star performer away from the sound for a minimum of six months but MRI implemented the subsequent day in Barcelona demonstrated he suffered a sprain in the internal and external ligaments of his right ankle. Team-mate David Villa stated "the tackle on Messi was brutal" later watching the cinema of the play and also supplemental that he considered the Atlético defender "didn't go into the tackle to hurt". The happening caused universal media attention and brought higher the debate of equality in sheltering all players in the game.
When he recovered he scored in a 1–1 tie against Mallorca. He afterward scored another brace on the UEFA Champions League against København and alleviated the team to a 2–0 home win. He persisted his noble scoring run with braces against Zaragoza and Sevilla. After a prolific October, he commenced November scoring on an away 1-1 tie against København and an away 3-1 win against Getafe where he also augmented team-mates David Villa and Pedro Rodríguez. In the subsequent fixture against Villareal, he scored an extraordinary objective merging with Pedro, which gave Barcelona a 2-1 lead. He scored another objective and Barcelona won 3-1. This was the 7th consecutive fit in which Messi scored, contravening his have beforehand record of 6. He also achieved the feat of scoring 50 objectives in the calender year of 2010 with the 1st objective, where with the 2nd objective, he achieved the same feat again, this time account for the objectives he scored threadbare a Barcelona shirt in the year 2010. Against Almería he scored his second hat-trick of the season in an noble 8-0 away win, the second objective was his 100th La Liga goal. He scored on his 9th game in a row (10th surrounding a friendly against Brazil) on a 3-0 away win against Panathinaikos.
His goalscoring run ended on 29 November at El Clásico but Barcelona immobile treated to win 5-0 with Messi joining Villa twice. The subsequent fit day he scored a brace and gave an augment against Osasuna.
International career
In June 2004, he debuted for Argentina, playing in an under-20 friendly fit against Paraguay. In 2005 he was component of a team that won the 2005 FIFA World Youth Championship in the Netherlands. There, he won the Golden Ball and the Golden Shoe, scoring in the terminal four of Argentina's fits and netting a total of six for the tournament.
He organised his full worldwide debut on 17 August 2005 against Hungary at the age of 18. He was substituted on during the 63rd very small, but was sent off on the 65th very small because the adjudicator, Markus Merk, found he had headbutted defender Vilmos Vanczák, any person who was tugging Messi's shirt. The judgement was notorious and Maradona even contended the judgement was pre-meditated. Messi returned to the team on 3 September in Argentina's 1–0 World Cup qualifier away defeat to Paraguay. Ahead of the fit he had said "This is a re-debut. The first one was a bit short." He afterward commenced his first game for Argentina against Peru; later the fit Pekerman stated Messi as "a jewel".
On 28 March 2009, in a World Cup Qualifier against Venezuela, Messi wore the diagram 10 jersey for the first time with Argentina. This fit was the first official fit for Diego Maradona as the Argentina manager. Argentina won the fit 4–0 with Messi possibility the scoring.
On 17 November 2010, Messi scored a last-minute objective against South American rivals Brazil later an invidivual action to assist his team to a 1:0 win in the friendly fit, which was held in Doha. This was the first time that he had scored against Brazil at senior level.
2006 World Cup
The injury that saved Messi from playing for couple months at the end of the 2005–06 season jeopardised his presence in the 2006 World Cup. Nevertheless, Messi was picked in the Argentina squad for the tournament on 15 May 2006. He also played in the final fit in the past the World Cup against the Argentine U-20 team for 15 minutes and a friendly fit against Angola from the 64th minute. He witnessed Argentina's possibility fit victory against Ivory Coast from the substitute's bench. In the subsequent fit against Serbia and Montenegro, Messi became the youngest performer to create Argentina at a World Cup after he came on as a substitute for Maxi Rodríguez in the 74th minute. He augmented Hernán Crespo's objective within minutes of entering the game and also scored the final objective in the 6–0 victory, taking in him the youngest scorer in the tournament and the sixth youngest goalscorer in the history of the World Cup. Messi commenced in Argentina's pursuing 0–0 draw against the Netherlands.[131] In the pursuing game against Mexico, Messi came on as a substitute in the 84th very small, with the score tied at 1–1. He arose to score a objective, but it was administered offside with Argentina missing a late objective in extra time to proceed. Coach José Pekerman withdrew Messi on the bench during the quarter-final fit against Germany, which they hidden 4–2 on a chastisement shootout.
2007 Copa América
Messi at the 2007 Copa América
Messi played his first game in the 2007 Copa América on 29 June 2007, after Argentina defeated United States 4–1 in the first game. In this game, he demonstrated his competency as a playmaker. He initiate a objective for fellow striker Hernán Crespo and had more shots on target. Tevez came on as a substitute for Messi in the 79th very small and scored minutes later.
His second game was against Colombia, in which he won a chastisement that Crespo transformed to tie the game at 1–1. He also played a component in Argentina's second objective as he was fouled into the open the box, which sanctioned Juan Roman Riquelme to score from a freekick, and enhance Argentina's lead to 3–1. The final score of the game was 4–2 in Argentina's favor and promised them a spot in the tournament's quarterfinals.
In the third game, against Paraguay the omnibus rested Messi having already qualified for the quarter-finals. He came off the bench in location of Esteban Cambiasso in the 64th very small, with the score at 0–0. In the 79th very small, he augmented a objective for Javier Mascherano. In the quarter-finals, as Argentina faced Peru, Messi scored the second objective of the game, from a Riquelme surpass in a 4–0 win. During the semi-final fit against Mexico, Messi scored a lob through Oswaldo Sánchez to suppose Argentina through to the final with a 3–0 win. Argentina went on to lose 3–0 to Brazil in the final.
2008 Summer Olympics
Messi in the semi-final against Brazil at the 2008 Olympics
Having barred Messi from playing for Argentina in the 2008 Olympics, Barcelona equated to set free him later he held discusses with newly appointed omnibus Josep Guardiola. He connected the Argentina squad and scored the first objective in a 2–1 victory through Ivory Coast. He afterward scored the possibility objective and augmented Ángel Di María in the second to assist his side to a 2–1 extra-time win against the Netherlands. He also featured in Argentina's fit against rivals Brazil, in which Argentina took a 3–0 victory, consequently enhancing to the final. In the gold medal fit, Messi again augmented Di María for the simply objective in a 1–0 victory through Nigeria.
2010 World Cup
Messi played the whole game on Argentina's possibility fit 1–0 victory against Nigeria. He had some opportunities to score but was repeatedly turned down by Vincent Enyeama. Messi commenced in Argentina's pursuing 4–1 win against Korea Republic; he participated in all of the objectives of his team and alleviated Gonzalo Higuaín score a hat-trick. On the third and terminal assembly point fit Messi captained during Argentina's 2–0 win through Greece, again being the centrepoint of Argentina's play and was voted man of the match.
At the Round of 16 he augmented Carlos Tévez for the first objective in a 3–1 win against Mexico. The adjudicator awarded that objective even though it was a remove offside. The World Cup ended for Argentina with a 4–0 loss against Germany.
Outside football
Personal life
Messi was at one point romantically linked to Macarena Lemos, also from his hometown of Rosario. He is said to have been introduced to her by the girl's male parent after he returned to Rosario to recover from his injury a small proportion days in the past the commence of the 2006 World Cup. He has in the past also been linked to the Argentine glamour model Luciana Salazar. In January 2009 he conveyed "Hat Trick Barça", a programme on Canal 33: "I have a girlfriend and she is vibrant in Argentina, I am taking it easy and happy". He was supposed with the girl, Antonella Roccuzzo, at a performances in Sitges later the Barcelona-Espanyol derby. Roccuzzo is a fellow native of Rosario. They plan to wedded near the end of 2010.
Charity
In 2007 Messi positioned Fundacion Leo Messi, a charity encouraging access to education and medicinal care for vulnerable children. In an fansite interview, Messi said: “Being a bit renowned now gives me the area to assist population any person who truly deficiency it, particularly children.
In reply to Messi’s have childhood medical problems, the Leo Messi Foundation encourages Argentine youngsters diagnosed with medical conditions by offering reporting in Spain and binding the carrying, hospital and recuperation costs. Messi’s basis is encouraged by his have fundraising achievement with other addition from Herbalife.
On 11 March 2010 Messi was transmitted as a goodwill ambassador for UNICEF.[161] Messi’s UNICEF ambassador achievements are directed at encouraging children’s rights. Messi is encouraged in this by FC Barcelona, any person who also have a forceful group with UNICEF.
Media
He is featured on the front bind of the cinema game Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 and is also fascinated in promotional campaigns for the game. Messi, along with Fernando Torres, is the face of Pro Evolution Soccer 2010, and was also fascinated in the motion capturing and the trailer.Messi is sponsored by the German sportswear business Adidas and attributes in their video advertisements. In June 2010, Messi also signalled a 3 year trade with Herbalife which further encourages the Leo Messi Foundation.
