MY FOOTBALL IDOL: LIONEL ANDRES CUCCUTINI MESSI
Lionel Andres Messi is a professional football player who plays for FC Barcelona and the Argentine National team.
PERSONAL LIFE:
He was born on June 24th, 1987 in Rosario, Argentina. He is 33 years old currently and married to Antonella roccuzzo. He has 3 children namely Thiago, Matteo, Ciro
CLUB CAREER:
Messi has always played for Barcelona since his early age made his debut at the famous Barcelona academy team La Masia aged 14. Since then he broke into the first team at the age of 16 and he made his debut at when he came on at the 75th minute during a friendly against Porto on November 16th 2003. Ronaldinho told his teammates that he believed the 16-year-old would become an even better player than himself. Since then Messi has created history making him the best player ever in Barcelona history.
CAREER STATISTICS:
Messi has played 777 official matches for Barcelona and he is Barcelona most capped player just surpassing His former teammate Xavi Hernandez. Messi has scored 671 goals making him Barcelona top goal scorer in their history. He has also provided 268 assists.
Messi has played 142 games for his country Argentina scoring 71 goals which makes him the record goal scorer in the history of Argentina National team.
Personal/Individual honors:
Messi is the player with the most ballon d or award in history winning it a record of Six times and he became the first player to win the prestigious award four times consecutively winning it from 2009-2012. Messi also holds the record for most golden boots won winning it Six times. He is also holds the title for most pichichi won Seven (7) an award given to the top goal scorer in the Spanish league for that season. Messi also has also won numerous individual awards like the fifa World Cup golden ball, fifa world player of the year, the best fifa men player copa America Golden ball and so much more.
CLUB/INTERNATIONAL TITLES:
Messi has won numerous titles across his career. Messi has won 10 la liga titles 7 copa del rey 8 supercopa de espana 4 uefa champions league 3 uefa super cup and 3 fifa club World Cup. With his national team Argentina Messi has won the FIFA U-20 World Cup in 2005 and the Summer Olympics in 2008.
MY OPINION ON MESSI:
Growing up Messi has always been my idol and I hope we will surely see in the nearest future and I would love to touch him and feel is he is truly human like us because Messi is not from this planet as rightly said by zlatan ibrahimovic and many other football professionals. Messi is an alien and that’s why Spanish media calls him La Pulga Atómica ("The Atomic Flea"). Many has called Messi the greatest ever player to step his leg on a football pitch and kick a ball and to me Messi is the greatest ever player in Football History. And He is the Greatest of all time( G.O.A.T) 🐐