Monday, May 20, 2013

Lionel Messi is a legend of Football History

 
Lionel Andrés Messi (Rosario, Argentina, June 24, 1987), better known as Leo Messi, 11 is an Argentine footballer who also holds Spanish nationality since 2005.9 plays as a striker for FC Barcelona in the Primera Division in Spain and Soccer national team of Argentina, which is also Captain.
Since 2009 is considered by many sporting bodies, 12 13 14 15 16 by several players, 17 18 19 20 21 23 24 25 entrenadores22 reporters in general26 27 28 29 as "the current best player in the world" and for some athletes, players and technicians the best historia.3031 32 33 34 35 36 37 Received award for Best Player of the FIFA Golden Ball in 2009. It is also the first winner of the Golden Ball FIFA since 2010 includes both awards, regaining editions of 2011 and 2012.38 39 40 41 42 Having received consecutive Gold cuartoBalón, Messi managed to surpass the record of Michel Platini and in turn , obtaining recognition for the fourth consecutive best player in the world by FIFA, a landmark that also exceed those achieved in the past and alternately three times by Ronaldo and Zinedine Zidane. By his skill and playing style have compared Diego Armando Maradona, who himself declared Messi as his "successor" 43 44 45 Messi has broken several records with FC Barcelona, ​​as it is the top scorer in the history of club, the eighth leading scorer in the Primera Division Spain and the foreign player with most appearances for the club blaugrana.46
Leo Messi began playing football at a young age and his potential was quickly identified by FC Barcelona. He left Rosario-while active in the Club Atlético Newell's Old Boys, and moved to Europe at age 13 with his family, where Barcelona offered to pay the expenses of its hormonal disease (900 per month). He made his debut in the first team of FC Barcelona on November 16 de2003 in a friendly match against FC Porto trained by Jose Mourinho.47 However its debut in an official match came the following year, in the season 2004/2005, in league against RCD Espanyol. Messi managed convirtirse at age 16, the youngest player in Barcelona in a game of the First Division of the Spanish League. Barcelona eventually won League 2004/2005 and the following year the club won the Champions League dobleteganando Cup 2005/06. His breakthrough season was in 2006/07. From that moment it became part of the starting lineup, where he scored a hat-trick in El Clásico against Real Madrid and ended the season with 14 goals in 26 games. The season 2008/2009 was that of his consecration as best player in the world at that time. Barcelona won the treble that season, and Messi scored a total of 38 goals. In season 2009/2010 Messi got a club record, scoring 47 goals, of which 34 were in league competition. This ended up taking the Golden Boot and equaling the record scorer Ronaldo 1996/1997.48 season In season 2010/2011, the Flea got some titles with his club. Among the list of winners stand fifth time the League and the Champions League Championship for the third time. Also was individually awarded the Golden Ball In season 2011/2012 Messi won the inaugural Best Player Award UEFA and later his third Ballon d'For individual figures, the Flea set a record historical world 73 official goals for FC Barcelona and surpassing the previous, Archie Stark, which was in force for 87 years. Also finalized a total of 82 official goals including those converted with Argentina and achieved a new record by converting 50 goals in La Liga (a record for the Golden Boot, beating Dudu Georgescu). In the Champions League UEFA struck five goals in a game (7-1 against Bayer Leverkusen), positioned as top scorer in a single edition of the tournament with 14 goals (reaching record José Altafini) and be 4 times in a row leading scorer.
Messi is an outstanding player of the Argentina, where he currently serves as Captain of equipo.49 In 2006 he became the youngest player in the Argentina to attend a World Cup, with which he won the runner-up in the Copa America 2007. In 2008, Beijing Olympics, won his first international honor, the Medal of Gold at the end of 2011 was selected as one of 32 most popular personalities of the year by TIME magazine, running as a candidate for the "Person of the year ", being the only athlete nominated in the list.

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