LIONEL MESSI

                                 Lionel Messi

Lionel Messi began playing football at an early age for the place where he grew up club, Newell's Old Boys. From the age of 11, he experienced a hormone insufficiency. As his folks were not able pay for treatment in Argentina, they chose to move to Barcelona, Spain. Not long after arriving, Lionel attempted his fortunes with a trial at FC Barcelona, in spite of being just 13 years old. He exceeded expectations at the trial and quickly wound up beginning for the Barcelona B group, averaging more than an objective for every amusement. 

Lionel Andrés "Leo" Messi conceived 24 June 1987 in Rosario) is a football player who right now plays for FC Barcelona and the Argentina national group as a forward or winger. Known as one of the best football players of his era, Messi got a few Ballon d'Or and FIFA World Player of the Year designations by the age of 21, and won in 2009 and 2010. His playing style and capacity have attracted correlations with Diego Maradona, who himself pronounced Messi as his "successor". 

Messi started playing football at a youthful age and his potential was immediately recognized by Barcelona. He cleared out Rosario-based Newell's Old Boys' childhood group in 2000 and moved with his family to Europe, as Barcelona offered treatment for his development hormone insufficiency. Making his presentation in the 2004–05 season, he broke his group record for the most youthful footballer to score an alliance objective. Real respects soon took after as Barcelona won La Liga in Messi's presentation season, and won a twofold of the alliance and Champions League in 2006. His leap forward season was in the 2006–07 season; he turned into a first group consistent, scoring a cap trap in El Clásico and completing with 14 objectives in 26 class recreations. Messi then had the best period of his playing vocation, the 2008–09 season, in which he scored 38 objectives to have basic impact in a treble-winning effort. This record softening season was then obscured up the accompanying 2009–10 crusade, where Messi scored 47 objectives in all rivalries, equalling Ronaldo's record complete for Barcelona. He surpassed this record in the 2010–11 season with 53 objectives in all rivalries. 

Messi has won five La Liga titles, three Champions League titles, scoring in two of those finals, against Manchester United in both 2009 and 2011. He was not on the contribute as Barcelona vanquished Arsenal 2006, yet got a victors' award from the competition. In the wake of scoring 12 objectives in the 2010–11 Champions League, Messi turns into the third player after Gerd Müller and Jean-Pierre Papin to top-score in three progressive European Champion Clubs' Cup crusades. Be that as it may, Messi is the first to win the Champions League top scorer titles for three back to back years after Champions League changed its configuration in 1992. 

Messi was the top scorer of the 2005 FIFA World Youth Championship with six objectives, incorporating two in the last amusement. Presently, he turned into a built up individual from Argentina's senior global group. In 2006, he turned into the most youthful Argentine to play in the FIFA World Cup and he won a runners-up decoration at the Copa América competition the next year. In 2008, in Beijing, he won his first global honor, an Olympic gold decoration, with the Argentina Olympic football group.