Lionel messi

 

 

The full name Lionel Andres Messi is Messi. Small Messi was born in Argentina precisely in Rosario on June 24, 1987. Although diminutive, but nimbleness, agility and shrewdness menggocek ball makes it very excited to play ball and her favorite position is as a striker. Many observers ball dub Messi as the incarnation of Maradona because of his playing style is similar. See photo - photo & wallpaper Messi action at the bottom of this profile article.
At first the player plays 169 cm body is acting in Grandoli club, club upbringing Jorge Messi, who was none other than his father Messi. Newell's Old Boys as a professional club is very interested in the talent of Messi. Messi's desire to increase her height is very large, resulting in an agreement between Massey with the football club Newell's Old Boys, that he would move to Newell's Old Boys with the requirements for her growth hormone costs borne Leh Newell's Old Boys. But this club could not afford the cost akhhirnya hormone therapy which exceed 500,000 pounds per month. Fortunately Barcelona immediately arrested Leo Messi great potential and offered him a move to Spain to join the Catalan club is a plus to finance the entire cost of therapy.

"I only took less than 10 minutes to believe that he is a future star." Said the coach of Barcelona B at the time, Carles Rexach. "Throughout my career for 40 years, I've never seen a player who is really talented. someone with minimal knowledge of football will be aware of messi great ability. "
His talent attracted the attention of the world while acting with the Argentine national football team at the World Youth Cup and Barcelona in 2005. In 2006 he succeeded in helping Barcelona before an injury in the quarterfinals of resistance against Chelsea in the Champions League. Messi, who has a rather small body is very agile on the field and often open space for his colleagues who pursue goals.
Lionel Messi Achievements:
* * Join with Barcelona at the age of 13 years in 2000 and shone in the junior game before coach Frank Rijkaard made him make his debut at the age of 16 years in a friendly against Porto in November 2003.
* * Takes the heyday of Argentina to the 2005 World Junior Championships competition in the Netherlands, scoring two penalty goals in a 2-1 victory against Nigeria. As with Maradona, before he ended the tournament as the best player and leading scorer.
* * Switch so the Spanish citizenship in September 2005.
Reaching Peak
* * Making his debut for Argentina in a friendly against Hungary in August 2005, the same opponent as Maradona faced when making his debut when he was 16 cope. Messi out of the field less than a minute as a substitute, for elbowing defender opponent, then pulled her jersey.
* * The existence of bureaucratic argument about whether it can be considered as a European Union player to make it unable to support Barcelona in every game until October 2005. He scored six goals in 17 appearances when his club won the league, La Liga for the second consecutive time in two seasons.
* * Race against time to appear on the 2006 World Cup and played only a small part in this tournament. Coach Jose Pekerman was criticized severely for not removing it from the seat bench, when Argentina ran aground on the quarter-finals of the German host, after a penalty shootout.
* * Not performed for three months in the 2006-07 season because of a leg injury and then a brilliant hat-trick scored against Real Madrid when that game ended 3-3 at the Nou Camp in March.
* * Massey six-week break due to injury in early 2008, after a muscle bruise in his left leg Champions League match against Celtic.
* * Takes Argentina won the gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the second as the FIFA World Player 2008 after Portugal winger Cristiano Ronaldo, who later switched to Manchester United and now at Real Madrid.
* * In May 2009 he helped Barcelona win the Champions League final, scored the second goal for kemengan 2-0 over Manchester United that his club champion for the third time after victories in 1992 and 2006.
* * September, Messi signed a two-year contract extension so he remained at Barca till 2016.
* * December 2009, Messi won the Ballon d'Or and successfully led Barcelona won the Club World Champion title. And the end of 2009 at the close with one more award to Messi, FIFA World Player.