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LIONEL MESSI

Lionel Andrés Messi Cuccittini known as Leo


Messi is an Argentine footballer who plays as a
forward or midfielder.From 2023, is part of the
Inter Miami squad of the Canadian-American
MLS.

He is also international with the Argentine national


team, of which he is captain.

With the Barcelona Football Club, to which he was


linked for more than twenty years, he won 35 titles,
including ten in the League, four in the UEFA
Champions League and seven in the Copa del Rey.

Frequently considered the best player in the world and one of the best of all
time11, he is the only one in history to have won, among other distinctions, the
Ballon d'Or eight times, eight FIFA awards for the best player in the world.
World Cup, six Golden Boots and two Golden Balls from the Soccer World
Cup. In 2020 he became the first footballer and the first Argentine to receive a
Laureus award and was included in the Ballon d'Or Dream Team.

He holds the record for most goals in a season, 12 for the same club and in a
calendar year and he can have more. He is also the all-time top scorer for
Barcelona and the Argentine national team, in La Liga, Spanish Super Cup,
European Super Cup and the non-European player with the most goals in the
UEFA Champions League and he can continue to be.
.
Born in the city of Rosario, at the age of 13 he settled in Spain, where Barcelona
agreed to pay for the treatment of the hormonal disease that he had been
diagnosed with when he was a child. After rapid progression through
Barcelona's youth system, he made his official debut with the first team in
October 2004, at the age of seventeen. Despite being injury prone early in his
career, in 2006 he established himself as a key player for the club. Its first
uninterrupted season was 2008-09, in which Barcelona achieved the first treble
in Spanish football. Due to his playing style as a small left-handed dribbler13,
he was soon compared to his compatriot Diego Maradona who, in 2007,
declared him his "successor."

In 2009, at the age of twenty-two, he won his first Ballon d'Or and the FIFA
World Player of the Year award. Three successful seasons followed, in which
he won four Ballon d'Ors in a row, an unprecedented feat. To date, his best
personal campaign was 2011-12, when he set the record for most goals in a
season, both in La Liga and other European competitions. During the next two
seasons he also suffered injuries and, in 2014, he lost the Ballon d'Or to
Cristiano Ronaldo, whom he considers his rival. He regained his best form
during the 2014-15 campaign, in which he surpassed the records for all-time top
scorer in La Liga and the Champions League and achieved a historic second
treble with Barcelona, as well as winning his fifth Ballon d'Or. 'EITHER. . .
Earn it in 2019, 2021 and 2023.

As an Argentine international, he has represented his country in fourteen major


tournaments. At the youth level, in 2005 he participated with the U-20 team in
the South American Championship in Colombia and won the World Cup in
Holland, a tournament in which he finished as the best player and top scorer
and, with the U-20 team, he received the medal of gold in the 2008 Olympic
Games. After making his debut in the senior team in August 2005, at the 2006
World Cup in Germany he became the youngest Argentine to play and score in
a World Cup. The following year, in the Copa América, he was named best
young player of the tournament. As captain since August 2011, he reached the
finals of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, the 2015 Copa América and the Copa
América Centenario with his team, in addition to winning the 2021 Copa
América against Brazil at the Maracaná and, in 2022, the La Finalísima against
Italy at Wembley and the Qatar World Cup against France at the Lusail stadium.

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