Best Soccer Player In The World Lionel Messi
Lionel Andrés "Leo" Messi is an Argentine footballer who plays as a forward for La Liga club FC
Barcelona and the Argentina national team. He serves
as the captain of his country's national football team. By the age of 21, Messi
had received Ballon d'Or and FIFA World Player of the Year
nominations. The following year, in 2009, he won his first Ballon
d'Or and FIFA World Player of the Year
awards. He followed this up by winning the inaugural FIFA
Ballon d'Or in 2010, and again in 2011, and 2012. He also won the 2010–11 UEFA Best Player in Europe Award.
At the age of 24, Messi became Barcelona's all-time top scorer in all official
club competitions.
Consistently rated by commentators, coaches and colleagues as the best
footballer in the world and as one of the greatest players in the history of
the game, Messi is the first football player in history to win four FIFA/Ballons d'Or, which he won consecutively.
Messi has won five La Ligas, two Copas del
Rey, five Supercopas de España, three Champions Leagues, two Super
Cups and two Club World Cups. In March 2012, Messi made UEFA Champions League history by becoming the
first player to score five goals in one match, achieving the feat in a 7–1 win
over Bayer Leverkusen. He also matched José
Altafini's record of 14 goals in a single Champions League season. Messi became the
first player to top-score in four successive Champions League campaigns. He set
the European record for most goals scored in a season during the 2011–12
season, with 73 goals. In the same
season, he set the current goalscoring record in a single La Liga season,
scoring 50 goals.
Messi was the top scorer of the 2005 FIFA World Youth Championship
with six goals. In 2006, he became the youngest Argentine to play in the FIFA
World Cup and he won a runners-up medal at the Copa América tournament the following year, in
which he was elected young player of the tournament. In 2008, he won his first
international honour, an Olympic gold medal, with the Argentina Olympic football
team. Sportspro
has rated Lionel Messi as the third most marketable athlete in the world. His
playing style and stature have drawn comparisons to compatriot Diego
Maradona, who himself declared Messi his "successor".
Source: Wikipedia
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