Lionel "Leo" Messi Andres Kuchetana (in Spanish: Lionel Andrés "Leo" Messi); born June 24, 1987, is a soccer player who currently plays for FC Barcelona and Argentina striker and suites. Is considered one of the best footballers of his generation, where he ran several times for a Golden Globe Award and the best footballer in the world, the age of 20 and 21 and won their enactment 22.kornt his game and his skills with those of Bdiego Maradona, who declared himself
Messi began playing football at a young age and was soon discovered his abilities at the hands of Barcelona. He left Rosario-based Newell's Old Boys youth team in 2000 and moved with his family to Europe, as Barcelona offer him treatment for lack of growth hormones. In his first appearance in the 2004-05 season, he broke a record registered on behalf of his team for the youngest player to score a goal in the league. It was honored, but the biggest honor for him was Barcelona won the league in his first season with him, as happened to the League Cup and the Spanish Super Cup and the Champions League in 2006.
Inception began in the 2005-2006 season, joining the first team, and in the 2006-07 season, scored three goals (hat-trick) in the Clasico, and finished the season with 14 goals in 26 games. Perhaps it was the 2008-09 season of the most successful seasons, where Messi scored 38 goals in it and played a key role in getting the triple League Cup and Spain and the Champions League. The next season, 2009-10, Messi scored 47 goals in all competitions, to be able to offset Ronaldo's former number with Barcelona. And surpassed that figure in the 2010-11 season and fifty three goals in all competitions.
Before the start of the ball season 2015/16 in Europe Messi he had won seven titles with Barcelona, Spanish League, and four Champions League titles, scoring in the finalists, against Manchester United in the Champions League final in 2009 and 2011. Although it was not present on the pitch when Barcelona beat Arsenal in the Champions League final in 2006, but he received the medal winners of the tournament. After scoring 12 goals in the Champions League from 2010 to 2011, Messi became the third player (after Gerd Müller and Jean-Pierre Papin) overlies the top scorer in three consecutive seasons from European clubs heroine Cup campaigns. However, Messi is the first won the title of top scorer in the Champions League for three consecutive years after changing the Champions League in 1992.
Messi was top scorer in the World Cup U-20 in 2005 with six goals, including two in the final. Shortly thereafter, an important player and has become essential in the Argentina team. In 2006, he became the youngest Argentine to play in the FIFA World Cup Championship and won a silver medal at the Copa America the following year. In 2008, in Beijing, he won his first international titles, an Olympic gold medal, with the Argentina Olympic, the most important Anjazath with the first team Argentina his final match in the World Cup 2014 which was held in Brazil, but Argentina settled for second place and silver medal after the loss to the German team's lead to 0-1 after the final game that stretched into extra two games and earned Messi the best player of the tournament award.
