100 things to know about Lionel messi
All of us know that Lionel Messi is one of the greatest football player of all time . Many of us are familiar with the recent records made by Lionel Messi . Today we are going to talk about other facts about Lionel Messi that many of us don’t know . Here is the list ->>>>>>>>
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- § Born Luis Lionel Andres Messi on june 24 1987 in Rosario Argentina.
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- § Parents: Jorge and Ceclia Messi.
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- § Joined the Newell’s old boys youth team at the age of 8.
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- § Diagnosed with growth hormone deficiency.
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- § Joined Barcelona at the age of thirteen because his parents couldn’t afford to pay his medical bills.
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- § Played in the youth team from 2000 to 2004.
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- § Made his debut on October 16 2004 against Espanyol at the age of 17, wearing jersey number 30.
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- § He obtained his Spanish citizenship on 26 September 2006.
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- § He was the youngest player to play in La Liga until 2007.
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- § He came to limelight in 2005, at the age of 16, after making his first appearance for Barcelona and scoring.
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- § He converted two penalties that help Argentina to beat Nigeria for the youth championship in 2005.
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- § He made his first champions league debut on September 27 2005 against Udinese.
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- § He scored a Maradona’s kind of “HAND OF GOD” against Espanyol.
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- § He drew comparison to Maradona’s 1986 world cup “goal of the century” against England in 2006, beating six Getafe players including the goalkeeper to score.
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- § He was nominated for FIFAPro world XI award in 2007.
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- § He wore jersey number 19.
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- § He was also nominated for the world best player in 2007, but came second behind C Ronaldo.
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- § He was nominated for 2007 Ballon D’Or, but came third behind Kaka and Ronaldo.
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- § He scored his first hat rick in 2007 in an El classico match breaking a 12 years record by Ivan Zamorano of Real Madrid.
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- § He scored 14 goals in 2006/07 season.
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- § He played his 100th official game for Barcelona on on February 2007.
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- § He failed to score against Manchester united who beat Barcelona and went on to win the champions league.
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- § In 2008/9 season, he wore jersey number 10.
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- § He scored the 5000th Barcelona goal.
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- § He scored one the four goals that won Barcelona copa del Rey against Athletic Bilbao on may 13 2009.
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- § He won the champions league on 27 2009/10 season.
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- § He won the footballer of the year 2009.
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- § He also won UEFA Club forward, and footballer of the year 2009.
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- § He scored 38 goals at the end of 2009/10 season.
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- § He won UEFA Super cup in 2009.
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- § He also won the 2009 world club cup.
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- § He was ranked the most paid La Liga player alongside Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
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- § On April 6 2010 he scored his first 4 goals against arsenal.
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- § He broke Rivaldo’s record as the all time greatest champions league goal scorer for Barcelona.
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- § He equalled Ronaldo’s record of 34 goals for a single season.
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- § He played his 200th official match for Barcelona on august 24 2010.
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- § He won La Liga’s best player of the year award.
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- § He also won the world best player 2010.
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- § He won the Spanish super cup 2010.
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- § He won the world club cup and (MVP) respectively in 2011.
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- § He won the Ballon D’Or beating his team mates, Xavi and Iniesta.
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- § February 2012, Messi made his 200th appearance for Barcelona.
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- § On march 20 2012, Messi broke the all time leading goal scorer record of Cesar Sanchez. (232 goals)
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- § On April 3 2012, Messi broke Van Nistelrooy’s 12 goals in a single champions league season record.
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- § Messi broke Gerald Muller’s record of 67 goals in one season with a hat-trick against Malaga on May 2 2012.
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- § On 26 may 2012, Lionel Messi won Copa del Rey.
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- § He made Champions league top scorer with total of 14 goals.
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- § On November 11 Messi took his goal tally to 76, beating Pele’s (1958) record of 75 goals in a calendar year.
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- § On 9 December 2012, Messi scored 2 goals against real Betis to beat Gerd Muller’s record of 85 goals in a calendar year. (40 years record)
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- § At the end of 2012, Messi scored a total of 91 goals, setting a new record.
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- § On January 2013, Messi won the Ballon D’Or for 2012, making it four consecutive times.
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- § Messi finished 2012/13 season as the highest goal scorer. Scoring a total of 46 goals.
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- § Lionel Messi lost the UEFA European best player for 2012 to Frank Ribery.
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- § On march 16 2014 Messi became Barca’s all time leading goal scorer, beating Paulino Alcantara.
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- § On march 23 2014, Messi became top El Clasico goal scorer, with hat-trick against Real Madrid.
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- § He had about two months goal drought.
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- § Messi ended the season with 41 goals.
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- § On 16 may 2014, Messi signed a new deal with Barcelona.
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- § Lionel Messi’s Argentina lost the 2014 world cup to Germany.
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- § He won the 2014 world cup golden ball.
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- § He has a girl friend named, Antonella
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- § Leonel Messi has two sons named Thiago Messi, Mateo Messi.
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- § He tattooed his first son’s name and hand print on his left calf.
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- § Leo is a UNICEF good will ambassador.
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- § He also has his own charity foundation.
- § Married his long time girlfriend ( Antonella Roccuzzo) in 2017
- § In 2018 lionel messi became the first player to score against 37 out of 40 teams
- § He set record of scoring maximum goals at group stages in UCL
- § Messi is also the player with highest amount of hattricks in UCL
- § Messi is the only player to reach 150 assists in LA-LIGA
MESSI , the synonym of football has set huge
amount of records . Many football pundits and experts believe that Messi is the
best player of all time . We hope MAGICAL MESSI will show his magical game in
upcoming years also.
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