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Lionel Messi is an Argentine professional soccer player who plays as a forward for Barcelona and the Argentina national team. He is considered one of the greatest players of all time, having won a record six Ballon d'Or awards and six European Golden Shoes. For Barcelona, Messi holds the records for most goals and assists in La Liga and has helped the club win 34 trophies, including 10 league titles and 4 UEFA Champions League titles. He is also Argentina's all-time leading goalscorer and led them to the 2014 World Cup final and 2015 and 2016 Copa America finals.

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Lionel Andrés Messi Cuccittini: (Note 1) (A)

Lionel Messi is an Argentine professional soccer player who plays as a forward for Barcelona and the Argentina national team. He is considered one of the greatest players of all time, having won a record six Ballon d'Or awards and six European Golden Shoes. For Barcelona, Messi holds the records for most goals and assists in La Liga and has helped the club win 34 trophies, including 10 league titles and 4 UEFA Champions League titles. He is also Argentina's all-time leading goalscorer and led them to the 2014 World Cup final and 2015 and 2016 Copa America finals.

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Lionel Andrés Messi Cuccittini[note 1] (Spanish pronunciation: [ljo

ˈnel anˈdɾez ˈmesi] ( listen);[A] born 24 June 1987) is an Argentine


professional footballer who plays as a forward and captains both
Spanish club Barcelona and the Argentina national team. Often
considered the best player in the world and widely regarded as one
of the greatest players of all time, Messi has won a record six Ballon
d'Or awards,[note 2] and a record six European Golden Shoes. He has
spent his entire professional career with Barcelona, where he has
won a club-record 34 trophies, including ten La Liga titles,
four UEFA Champions League titles and six Copas del Rey. A
prolific goalscorer and creative playmaker, Messi holds the records
for most goals in La Liga (444), a La Liga and European league
season (50), most hat-tricks in La Liga (36) and the UEFA
Champions League (8), and most assists in La Liga (183), a La
Liga and European league season (21)[9] and the Copa
América (12). He has scored over 700 senior career goals for club
and country.
Born and raised in central Argentina, Messi relocated to Spain to
join Barcelona at age 13, for whom he made his competitive debut
aged 17 in October 2004. He established himself as an integral
player for the club within the next three years, and in his first
uninterrupted season in 2008–09 he helped Barcelona achieve the
first treble in Spanish football; that year, aged 22, Messi won his
first Ballon d'Or. Three successful seasons followed, with Messi
winning four consecutive Ballons d'Or, making him the first player to
win the award four times and in a row. [10] During the 2011–12
season, he set the La Liga and European records for most goals
scored in a single season, while establishing himself as Barcelona's
all-time top scorer. The following two seasons, Messi finished
second for the Ballon d'Or behind Cristiano Ronaldo (his
perceived career rival), before regaining his best form during
the 2014–15 campaign, becoming the all-time top scorer in La Liga
and leading Barcelona to a historic second treble, after which he
was awarded a fifth Ballon d'Or in 2015. Messi assumed the
captaincy of Barcelona in 2018, and in 2019 he secured a
record sixth Ballon d'Or.
An Argentine international, Messi is his country's all-time leading
goalscorer. At youth level, he won the 2005 FIFA World Youth
Championship, finishing the tournament with both the Golden Ball
and Golden Shoe, and an Olympic gold medal at the 2008 Summer
Olympics. His style of play as a diminutive, left-footed dribbler drew
comparisons with his compatriot Diego Maradona, who described
Messi as his successor. After his senior debut in August 2005,
Messi became the youngest Argentine to play and score in a FIFA
World Cup during the 2006 edition, and reached the final of the 2007
Copa América, where he was named young player of the
tournament. As the squad's captain from August 2011, he led
Argentina to three consecutive finals: the 2014 FIFA World Cup, for
which he won the Golden Ball, and the 2015 and 2016 Copas
América. After announcing his international retirement in 2016, he
reversed his decision and led his country to qualification for the 2018
FIFA World Cup, and a third-place finish at the 2019 Copa América.
One of the most famous athletes in the world, Messi has been
sponsored by sportswear company Adidas since 2006 and has
established himself as their leading brand endorser. According
to France Football, he was the world's highest-paid footballer for five
years out of six between 2009 and 2014, and was ranked
the world's highest-paid athlete by Forbes in 2019. Messi was
among Time's 100 most influential people in the world in 2011 and
2012. In 2020, he was awarded the Laureus World Sportsman of the
Year.

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