Born(DOB June 24,1987) in Rosario, Santa Fe,Argentina, Lionel Messi's special talent was discovered at an early age by Barcelona, who took him to Spain and arranged specialised treatment for his growth hormone deficiency.
Making his debut in the 2004-05 season he broke his team record for the youngest footballer to score a league goal.
Lionel Messi scored his first goal for Barcelona in official competition on May 01,2005 at the age of 17 years, 10 months and 7 days.
Claimed a Liga/UEFA Champions League double in 2005/06 but did not become a regular starter until the following season, when he soared to prominence with, among other exploits, a memorable hat-trick in El Clásico against Real Madrid CF (3-3) and finished the season with 14 goals in 26 league games.
Won the 2005 FIFA U-20 World Cup and the 2008 Olympic Games with Argentina and in between times became his country's youngest representative at the FIFA World Cup, in 2006.
Enjoyed a remarkable 2008/09 season, winning every competition Barcelona entered and registering 38 goals, including a top-scoring nine in the UEFA Champions League, where he doubled the Azulgrana's lead in the final against Manchester United FC with a rare header.
In the 2009-10 season, Lionel Messi scored 47 goals in all competitions, equalling Ronaldo's record total for FC Barcelona.
Lionel Messi surpassed this record in the 2010-11 season with 53 goals in all competitions, a record which he has since surpassed again in the still-ongoing 2011-12 season
Ended 2009 with an extra-time winner in the FIFA Club World Cup final and a clean sweep of the game's major individual honours − the FIFA World Player of the Year and the Ballon d'Or.
Became the youngest Barça player to reach 100 goals when he scored against Sevilla FC in the Liga on 16 January 2010; ended the season with another league title and 47 goals in all competitions, a tally that included a four-goal haul against Arsenal FC in the UEFA Champions League quarter-final.
Finished as the UEFA Champions League's leading scorer for the third season running in 2010/11, scoring his 12th goal in the Wembley final against United and 53 in total in another prolific campaign.
Won the inaugural UEFA Best Player in Europe Award at a ceremony in Monaco, a day before he opened the scoring in the 2011 UEFA Super Cup as Barcelona defeated FC Porto 2-0, and in January 2012 was awarded the FIFA Ballon d'Or for the third year in succession
Eclipsed César Rodríguez's club best of 232 goals for the Blaugrana in style by scoring a hat-trick in a 5-3 triumph over Granada CF on 20 March 2012 – two weeks later he broke the 12-goal record he jointly held for the most strikes in a single UEFA Champions League season when he converted two penalties against quarter-final opponents AC Milan.
Lionel Messi was one of 5 FC Barcelona players named in the FIFA/FIFPro World XI.
The full lineup is:
Iker Casillas (Real Madrid CF); Daniel Alves (FC Barcelona), Sergio Ramos (Real Madrid CF), Gerard Piqué (FC Barcelona), Nemanja Vidić (Manchester United FC); Andrés Iniesta (FC Barcelona), Xabi Alonso (Real Madrid CF), Xavi Hernández (FC Barcelona); Lionel Messi (FC Barcelona), Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid CF), Wayne Rooney (Manchester United FC)
Lionel Messi Scores 300+ Career Goals
Lionel Messi scored the 300+goal mark where Barcelona defeats Rayo Vallecano 5-0 in Madrid on Saturday Oct 27,2012 to go three points clear at the top of La Liga.David Villa, Xavi Hernandez and Cesc Fabregas got the other goals for Barca.
Lionel Messi surpassed Pele's milestone of goals in a calendar year
Lionel Messi's goals were the 300th and 301st of his career, a total made up of 270 for Barca and 31 for Argentina in only 419 matches
Lionel Messi surpassed Pele's milestone of goals in a calendar year by scoring for the 75th and 76th time in 2012 to move within nine of Gerd Muller's all-time record as Barcelona won 4-2 at Mallorca in the Spanish league on Nov 11,2012 Sunday.
Lionel Messi now needs 10 more goals by end of next month to better Bayern Munich and West Germany legend Gerd Muller's world record of 85, scored back in 1972.
Lionel Messi’s seventh double of the season increased his league-leading tally to 15 goals. He has 20 in all competitions this season.
Lionel Messi Scores 86th Goal and breaks the 40-year-old record
Lionel Messi broke German great Gerd Mueller's 40-year-old record for most goals in a year by scoring for the 86th time in 2012 on Sunday Dec 9,2012 for Barcelona to lead 2-0 against Real Betis
Lionel Messi Scores 86th Goal and breaks the 40-year-old record
FC Barcelona's Argentinian forward Lionel Messi celebrates after scoring during the Spanish league football match Real Betis vs FC Barcelona at the Benito Villamarin stadium in Seville,Spain
Lionel Messi broke Germany's Gerd Mueller's 40-year-old record(set in 1972) for most goals in a year by scoring for the 86th time in 2012 on Sunday Dec 9,2012 for Barcelona to lead 2-0 against Real Betis in the La Liga soccer match at the Benito Villamarin stadium, in Seville, Spain
Lionel Messi's Goals Month-by-Month in 2012
- January 7
- February 10
- March 13
- April 9
- May 8
- June 4
- July 0
- August 7
- September 5
- October 10
- November 9
- December 4
Here is a look at his year in numbers
3 Only player to win the Ballon d'Or three years in a row. He is favourite to be named the winner again next month
4 Only player to be European Cup top scorer four years in a row
4 Most goals scored by a player in the Fifa Club World Cup, jointly held with Denilson
5 Only player to score five goals in a Champions League match, against Bayer Leverkusen
7 Number of minutes in which Messi has not scored in 2012 – the 1st, 2nd, 10th, 14th, 15th, 46th and 69th minutes
8 Most La Liga hat-tricks in one season by any player
10 Most consecutive La Liga matches scored in, record jointly held with (Brazilian) Ronaldo and Mariano Martín
10 Most goals scored by a player in the Spanish Super Cup
12 Most goals scored in a year by a player for Argentina, jointly held with Gabriel Batistuta
14 Most goals scored in a single European Cup season, shared with Jose Altafini of Milan in 1962-63
15 Most La Liga hat-tricks by a FC Barcelona Player
15 Away league goals scored by Messi this season, more than every other La Liga club except Real Madrid
17 Most goals scored by a Barcelona player in El Clásico matches
17 Fastest hat-trick by a Barcelona player, 17 minutes against Mallorca
21 Most hat-tricks by a Barcelona player in all competitions
25 Most international goals (ie goals not scored in domestic club football) for club and country in a year, jointly held with Vivian Woodward
50 Most goals scored by a player in a La Liga season. Also won him the 2011-12 Golden Boot
56 League goals scored by Messi in 2012. Only five Premier League teams have scored more – Manchester United, Manchester City, Arsenal, Tottenham and Everton
56 Most goals scored in the Champions League by a Barcelona player
57 Most goals scored in European competition by a Barcelona player
63 Messi has scored one goal for every 63 minutes played in 2012 for club and country
72 Most club goals scored by a player in a single season, beating Archie Stark's previous best for Bethlehem Steel in the 1924-25 American Soccer League
74 Most club goals scored by a player in a calendar year
82 Most goals scored by a player in a single season for club and country
86 Most goals scored by a player in a calendar year for club and country, surpassing Gerd Müller for Bayern Munich and West Germany in 1972
91 Total goals scored by Messi in 2012, including five in friendlies for Barcelona
192 Most goals for a Barcelona player in La Liga, beating César Rodríguez Alvarez's 190
249 Wins by Messi out of 352 matches for Barcelona, 70.7% of his matches
283 Most goals by a Barcelona player in all competitions, beating César Rodríguez Alvarez's 232
5,405 Minutes of football played by Messi in 2012, equivalent to more than 60 completed matches
Lionel Messi Scores 91st and final goal of the year 2012
Lionel
Messi polished off his record year with his 91st and final goal of
2012 in Barcelona’s 3-1 win against Real Valladolid at the Jose
Zorrilla Stadium in Valladolid, Spain on Saturday Dec 22,2012 in the
Spanish La Liga Soccer Match.
Lionel Messi,Cristiano Ronaldo,Andres Iniesta Nominated for 2012 FIFA Ballon d'Or
Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo and Andres Iniesta are the finalists for FIFA's World Player of the year 2012 Award.
Primera Liga & Champions League in 2012 |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Messi | Ronaldo | Iniesta | |
| Games played | 50 | 51 | 39 |
| Total minutes | 4,380 | 4,541 | 2,835 |
| Goals | 72 | 53 | 6 |
| Total shots | 205 | 288 | 48 |
| On target | 139 | 149 | 23 |
| Shot conv. rate | 35.1% | 18.4% | 12.5% |
| Assists | 17 | 11 | 16 |
| Passes | 3,178 | 1,848 | 2,667 |
| Passes per game | 63.6 | 36.2 | 68.4 |
They were picked from a list of 23 candidates for this year's Ballon d'Or, with Lionel Messi looking to become the first player to win the award four times.
Lionel Messi - Barcelona and Argentina
Messi has already won the Ballon d'Or three times - 2009, 2010 and 2011 - and is odds-on favourite to become the first player to win the title a record fourth time
Messi scored 14 goals in the 2011-12 Champions League, breaking the record of 12 that he had previously shared with former Manchester United striker Ruud Van Nistelrooy
Messi scored the most goals - in domestic and international games combined - in a calendar year 2012.Messi finished 2012 with 91 goals.
Cristiano Ronaldo - Real Madrid and Portugal
Ronaldo scored 46 goals in total for Los Blancos - becoming the only player in La Liga history to score 40 goals or more in a season twice.
Ronaldo finished the 2011-12 campaign with 60 goals in all competitions, including at least one against each of Real's 19 domestic league opponents - the first time that feat had been achieved.
In Oct 2012,Ronaldo became the first person to score in six consecutive El Clasicos,Real Madrid drew with FC Barcelona 2-2
Andres Iniesta - Barcelona and Spain
played the leading role as Spain won Euro 2012 to clinch back-to-back European Championship titles
won three man-of-the-match awards during last summer's competition in Poland and Ukraine, and was named UEFA Player of the Tournament
named the best player of the 2011-12 Champions League tournament
Lionel Messi wins the FIFA Ballon d'Or for the 4th year in a row
Lionel Messi received 41.60% of the points in votes cast by national team coaches and captains plus invited journalists.Ronaldo got 23.68 % and Iniesta scored 10.91 %
Note
France great Michel Platini, and former Holland forwards Johan Cruyff and Marco van Basten all won the old Ballon d'Or trophy for European footballer of the year thrice.
Lionel Messi Signs Contract Extension with FC Barcelona till 2018 - Thursday Feb 14,2013
Lionel Messi shaking hands with Barcelona's president Sandro Rosell after signing his new contract
With his previous contract set to expire in 2016, Messi will now remain at Barcelona until June 2018.
Lionel Messi(25)joined Barcelona's youth academy as a 13-year-old and made his first-team debut at 16.
Lionel Messi is -
- FC Barcelona's leading scorer of all time
- top scorer in the Champions League for the last 4 years and
- became the 1st to score 5 goals in a single CL match in FCB's 7-1 win against Bayer Leverkusen in March 2012
- Scored a record 91 goals for club and country in 2012 calendar year
CLUB AND COUNTRY MATCHES
Total Barcelona matches: 63
Total Argentina matches: 11
Total matches combined: 74
Total Messi played: 69
Matches missed: 5
Total minutes of football Barcelona and Argentina played: 6,660
Total minutes Messi played: 5,973
Minutes missed: 687
LEAGUE DOMINATION
Total Barcelona league matches: 39
Total Messi played in: 38
Total Barcelona league minutes played: 3,510
Total Messi minutes: 3,361
Minutes missed: 149
The striker only failed to score in 10 of 39 league matches in 2012 – so he scored in 75% of Barcelona’s league games.
HOW
Goals scored: 91
Left foot: 81
Right foot: 7
Head: 3
TEAM
Barcelona: 79
Argentina: 12
Goals Scored
For Celta -Insa 38, Oubina 88
For FCB - Tello 43, Messi 73
The match ended 2-2 as Borja Oubina headed a late equaliser as Celta Vigo held leaders Barcelona to a 2-2 draw in La Liga on Saturday March 30,2013.
The draw maintains Barcelona's 13 point lead at the top of La Liga following Real Madrid's 1-1 draw with Real Zaragoza
With a goal against Celta Vigo, FC Barcelona's Lionel Messi became the first player to score against every Spanish league opponent in consecutive order.
Lionel Messi has scored a staggering 43 goals thus far this (La Liga) season - more than 16 of the remaining 19 La Liga teams. His 23 goals away from the Camp Nou equals the season record (set by Cristiano Ronaldo in 2011-12); and that's with another four away games left to play.
Lionel Messi Wins Best Player & Best Attacker Award in La Liga 2012-13 season
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