Lionel Messi´s
biography.
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Year: 2014
Lionel Messi
Full name: Lionel Andrés Messi
Nickname: Leo
Parents: Jorge Horacio Messi, a factory
worker, and Celia María Cuccittini
Date of birth: 24/06/1987 (Age 27)
Place of birth: Rosario
Nationality: Argentina
Height: 169 cm.
Weight: 67 kg.
Position: Forward
T shirt: 10
Selection: Argentina
• Lionel Andrés Messi Cuccittini,
also known as Leo Messi is an
Argentine footballer and Olympic
medalist of Italian descent who
also holds Spanish nationality
since 2005.
• In 1995, he went to train in the ranks of Newell's Old Boys,
the club with which he won the Friendship Cup in Peru in
1997.
• At eight years he was diagnosed with a deficiency in
growth hormone, which prevented him from having a
development normal physical. The treatment was very
expensive and their parents could not afford it. Leo Messi
was discovered by FC Barcelona. He left the Club Atlético
Newell's Old Boys of Rosario to move to Europe with his
family, where the Catalan club expenses you paid for your
hormonal disease (USD 900 per month).
• In 2009/2010 managed to score 47 goals this season, 34
of which were in the league competition. He won the
Golden Boot equaling Ronaldo's record scorer in
1996/1997 season.
• Lionel Messi received the October 29, 2012 the Golden
Boot, the award recognizes the top scorer of the
European leagues. The 50 goals scored in 37 games in the
2011-2012 season makes him the second time in the
continental scorer, something we already got two
seasons ago when he scored 34 goals.
Messi's first goal for Barcelona
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB_w5R4vhI8
Messi's first goal with the selection
Argentina
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GgA-ZyHo8k
Records
• It's been 10 years since that October 16, 2004 in which a small
player with the number 30 on the back came on as the
Catalan derby football match between Barcelona and
Espanyol past.
• 1. 91 goals in a year, an absolute record
When the 2011-2012 season had been ended Messi as the best
scorer in a single season in the history of European football with
72 goals, surpassing the 67 goals of the German Gerd Müller.
But the Argentine did not stop there and kept getting marks in
12 months seems difficult magic that can be overcome. In 2012
Messi surpassed the South American record of 75 goals the
Brazilian Pelé achieved in 1958 and later established the
absolute mark of the world since, with 85 goals, the "Bomber"
Müller since 1973.
With a goal against Valladolid Messi left the record 91 goals in a
single year, 79 T and 12 Barcelona Argentina.
• 2.-Four-time winner of the Golden Ball
Not only is the only player to be recognized as the best player in
the world four times, but did so in four consecutive years.
Beyond the controversial election of 2010, when he surpassed
his peers in the Barcelona World Champions with Spain Iniesta
and Xavi, Messi's statistics, both individually and securities,
those years were spectacular.
3.-Increased number of consecutive games scoring in
The League
In the 2012-2013 season Messi managed one of the most
difficult marks for any player to score at least one goal in 19
consecutive games.
It is, he scored against each of the teams in the top division of
the League.
• .4.- Top scorer in the history of Barcelona
First he surpassed 232 goals in official matches Caesar then leave
behind the mark of 369 goals set Paulinho Alcántara between 1912
and 1927, adding friendlies. Messi has 389 goals for Barca shirt.
5.-Top scorer for Argentina in a year
In 2012 Messi also responds to critics who accused him of not paying
the selection of Argentina. Messi equaled the record of 12 goals in a
single year of Gabriel Batistuta.
• 6. Golden Boot with most goals in Europe
The number of goals achieved in the Spanish League also
allowed him to be the top scorer in European football, setting a
new record since the award was established since 1998, the
previous record of 47 was held by Georgescu from the 19761977 season
• 7.- Most goals scored in a season in La Liga
That season he scored 50 goals and had surpassed the mark set
last year Cristiano Ronaldo 41.
8.- Most goals scored in "Classic" against Real Madrid
The Argentine beat countryman Alfredo Di Stefano as the top
scorer in the history of this match with 21 points.
9.- Four times top scorer in the Champions League
Since the 2008-2009 season until 2012 Messi was the top scorer
of the highest international competition in Europe.
10. Most goals scored in a Champions League match
He became the first player, and so far only, to score five goals in
one match of the Champions League.
• His Family :
• In Barcelona
• In the selection Argentina