m-biography.blogspot.com - Biography Lionel Messi is an Argentine soccer player who currently plays for FC Barcelona and is the captain of national football team Argentina, played as a striker. He is the top scorer in Barcelona history. At the age of 21, Messi had been nominated for the Ballon d'Or and the FIFA World Player. In 2009, he won the Ballon d'Or and the FIFA World Player and the first award of the FIFA Ballon d'Or in 2010 and 2011.
Early life
Messi was born in Rosario, Province of Santa Fe. From the lineage of his father, he came from Ancona, a town in Italy, where his ancestor, Angelo Messi, emigrated to Argentina in 1883. He had two older brothers, Rodrigo and Matías, and a sister, María Sol. In the age of five, Messi started playing football for Grandoli, a local football club that trained his father, Jorge.
In 1995, Messi joined Newell's Old Boys which is based in his hometown, Rosario. He became part of the local forces that have only lost once in four years and is known as “the Machine 87“, from their year of birth.
At the age of 11, Messi was diagnosed with growth hormone deficiency. An elite team of River Plate is interested in its development, but they don't have enough money for his treatment, which reached $900 per month. Carles Rexach, the sporting director of FC Barcelona, has found a talented Messi because he has relatives in Lleida, and his father set up a trial with the team.
Rexach, without bringing the paper in hand at the time it bid the contract on Messi on a napkin to eat out of paper. Barcelona offered to pay for the treatment of Messi if he wants to move to Spain. Messi and his father then moved to Barcelona, and he entered the youth academy of the club.
Career
Messi playing for the junior team of Barca Infantil B and Cadete B & A from 2000 to 2003 (scoring 37 goals in 30 matches in Cadete A). The 2003-04 season, he scored a record five teams different: perform one match in Juvenil B (one goal) and got promoted to Juvenil A (14 matches, 21 goals). Later he performed for FC Barcelona C in the Tercera Division, on 29 November 2003 and for FC Barcelona B in Segunda División B on 6 March 2004.
He played for the team throughout the season (eight matches, five goals and five matches, zero goals). Even before debut-debut, Messi has been performing officially for the first time for the first team on 16 November 2003 at the age of 16 years and 145 days, in a friendly match against FC Porto.
Less than a year after the debut, Frank Rijkaard gave a chance to debut at the La Liga for Messi in a match against RCD Espanyol on 16 October 2004 (at 17 years and 114 days), becoming the third-youngest player ever to play for Barcelona and youngest club player in La Liga, before eventually record broken by Bojan Krkić in September 2007. When he scored senior first face Albacete Balompié on 1 May 2005, Messi was 15 years, 10 months and 7 days, becoming the youngest goalscorer in the history of Barcelona before heading back broken by Krkic in 2007, who scored from an assist from Messi.
Messi said about his former coach, Rijkaard: “I'll never forget the fact that he started my career, which gave me confidence when I was 16 and 17 years“. During that season, he also played for FC Barcelona B, scoring 6 goals from 17 matches.
The style of Play
Many people said that his playing style is often compared with senior compatriot, Diego Maradona because of the same dominant player the left leg. Messi uses the outside of his left foot for dribbling while the inside is used for the finish, and feed or assist his colleagues.
Body posture that is short and powerful legs make it more agile, able to avoid the tackle when the dribble time quickly. In the team, he is able to play a role as a playmaker or adapt a pattern of offensive smoke.
Life outside of Football
Messi underwent a romantic relationship with Macarena Lemos, also from his hometown in Rosario. He is said to have been introduced to him the girl's father when he returned to Rosario after recovering from the injury a few days before the start of the 2006 World Cup. Previously, she has also been associated with glamor Model Argentina Luciana Salazar. In January 2009 he told “Hat Trick Barça“, a program on Canal 33:“I have a boyfriend and he lives in Argentina, I am relaxed and happy“.
He is also seen with the girl, Antonella Roccuzzo at a carnival in Sitges after the Barcelona against Espanyol. Roccuzzo is a native fellow Rosario. On 2 November 2012, Messi became a father for the first time after the birth of his son Thiago. FC Barcelona's official website briefly stated: “Leo Messi is a father“.
In addition, the Argentine striker added on his page Facebook: “Today I'm the happiest man in the world, my son was born and thanks to God for the gift of this“ In March 2013, Messi paid the offering up of his son Thiago by having had his name and print a small palm scratched in the calf of his left.
Messi has two cousins also involved in football: Maxi, a winger for Club Olimpia of Paraguay, and Emanuel Biancucchi, who plays as a midfielder for the Spanish side Girona FC.
Biodata Lionel Messi
Full name : Lionel Andres Messi Cuccitinni
Place of Birth : Rosario, Argentina
Date of Birth : 24 June 1987
Nationality : Argentinian
Height : 1.69 m
Club Career : FC Barcelona
Children : Thiago Messi