Lionel Messi, La Liga all time top-goal scorer, has secured his place as one of the all time world great’s. His is one of, if not the very best, ever to play the game.
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| Is Lionel Messi the greatest player of all time..?? |
At the age of thirteen a young Lionel Messi moved from his home town club, Rosario Argentina, to the famous Barcelona FC. At a young age Messi had to get nightly growth hormone injections to make him grow. It was a few 100 dollars a month so it was hard for Lionel’ family to pay for it, however the club helped Messi’s family pay for the injections.
Messi scored his first goal for Barcelona in May 2005 against Albacete. In one of his first ever interviews Messi said his favourite player was the Brazilian Ronaldo, he was his hero because he was the best forward he has seen, he was so fast and could score from nothing.
Messi has won lots of silverwear and broken many records such as the most goals scored in Europe, and the most goals scored in a season. He has won four ballon`dors in his career and has been a phenomenal player ever since the day he joined Barcelona at the early age of 13. This year Messi has already scored 8 goals in 6 appearances with two assists in the Champion’s League qualifiers helping Barcelona qualify with ease from the group stages.
Leo Messi, full name Luis Lionel Messi, was born on June 24th 1987. His family are quoted as saying Messi was ‘born a talent and grew into a superstar’. On December 14th 2000 Barcelona's Sporting Director Carles Reach held a meeting with the 13 year old Messi and his father Jorge. Interestingly the contract signed between the young Messi and Carles the Sporting Director was signed on a napkin as there was no paper to hand. No one knew at the time that this napkin would turn out to be one of the most important sporting documents in sporting history.
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| Lionel Messi's remarkable Barcelona career started with a signed napkin |
Messi competes against Cristiano Ronaldo nearly every year not only for domestic and European titles but also for individual honours, they are the two giants in world football today. Some people think Ronaldo is the best player in the world and others think it’s Messi, if I was to choose I would say Messi is the all-time player but for 2014-2015 I would say it has to be Ronaldo. Some of the stats for this year are…
Ronaldo Messi
36 goals 37 goals
14 assists 18 assists
33 appearances 33 appearances
In one of the most lucrative leagues in the world, the Spanish la liga, giants Barcelona and Real Madrid are almost neck and neck in the table. Real Madrid are currently on 54 points and Barcelona on 53 points and both played the same amount of games. This year will be tough to decide who will win but with Messi playing a big part in Barcelona’s success they could possibly slip past real Madrid and be the league winners for the 23rd time in Barcelona’s history.
Last year in the World Cup Messi admitted he did not earn the golden ball award, despite the Argentinian superstar winning the award for the most outstanding player of the tournament. Argentinian legend Maradona was critical of Messi during the World Cup saying, ‘Messi, I would give him heaven if possible but it is not right when someone wins something he shouldn’t have won just because of some marketing plan’.
Messi is an outstanding player and at only 27 he can becme even better as the years’ progress. There are still many more trophies to win and records to break for Lionel Messi.
by Alan McLagan
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