Leonel Messi- The Legend Footballer

Lionel Messi is one of the Argentina's best footballer of the world in football history. The main player in history to win five FIFA Ballons, he was additionally the first player to win three European Golden Shoes. He smashed numerous world records and as of now holds the records for most objectives scored in La Liga, a La Liga season (50), a schedule year (91), a solitary season (73), and a Champions League (5), among a few others. Naturally introduced to a football-cherishing family in focal Argentina, he built up an energy for the game at an early age and spent his teenage playing football with his siblings. He joined the group of Newell's Old Boys as a young man and started playing for FC Barcelona's under-14 group when he was 13. Having made his aggressive presentation as a 17 year old, Messi immediately settled himself as a best player for the Barcelona club. His first enormous achievement came in the 2008–09 season, amid which he helped Barcelona accomplish the primary achievement in Spanish football. Over the following years he continued to build up himself as Barcelona's record-breaking top scorer in authority rivalries and is likewise Argentina's untouched driving goalscorer with 55 objectives in 112 matches. He resigned in 2016 after Argentina's misfortune to Chile in the Copa América Centenario last.

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• He had an astonishing begin in the 2015 season. He gave a shining execution alongside colleagues Luis Suárez, and Neymar to score a sum of 122 objectives in all rivalries that season, a record in Spanish football. Messi himself scored 58 of the 122 objectives.
• Proceeding with his dash of achievement in 2016, Messi scored two objectives and helped the other two in a 4–1 derby win over Espanyol at the Camp Nou in the main leg of the Round of 16 of the 2015–16 Copa del Rey in January 2016. In February that year, he achieved his 300th alliance objective in a 1–3 away win against Sporting Gijon.
• He scored his 500th senior vocation objective for club and nation on 17 April 2016 in Barcelona's 2–1 home misfortune to Valencia. In the 2015-16 season, he scored a sum of 41 objectives and gave 23 helps.
• He declared his retirement from universal football taking after Argentina's misfortune to Chile in the last of Copa América Centenario on 26 June 2016. 

“Messi has his personality and I have mine. He has his game and I have mine. I also play in a big club like him. We are different in every aspect. But right now, he is the best.”—Christiano Ronaldo

Award and Achievement

Messi's achievement at the field of football has been praised by the world over through the various honors, respects and accomplishments that he has been gave with. 

• Messi has won the prestigious Ballon d'Or five circumstances. He has won it in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2015.
• Messi had won honors in the player of the year class. Some of them are World Soccer Young Player of the Year, FIFPro World Young Player of the Year and Copa America Young Player of the Tournament.
• Messi has in his kitty 20 Player of the Year grants including FIFA World Player of the Year (1), World Soccer Player of the Year (3), Goal.com Player of the Year (2), UEFA Best Player in Europe Award (1), UEFA Club Footballer of the Year (1), FIFA U-20 World Cup Player of the Tournament (1), La Liga Player of the Year (3), La Liga Foreign Player of the Year (3) and La Liga Ibero-American Player of the Year (5).
• Messi has been granted as the top goalscorer on various events. Some of them incorporate IFFHS World's best Top.
• He was also awarded as Division Goal Scorer, IFFHS World's Top Goal Scorer, UEFA Champions League Top Goalscorer, FIFA U-20 World Cup Top Goalscorer and Copa del Rey Top Goalscorer.
• Messi was respected with the European Golden Shoe thrice in 2010, 2011 and 2012. He won the FIFA Club World Cup Golden Ball twice in 2009 and 2011. He was labeled as the European Golden Boy in the year 2005.
• He was only footballer of the Argentine football national group that won the gold award in the 2008 Summer Olympics.

His Contribution

• Messi established the Leo Messi Foundation, a charity supporting access to education and health care for vulnerable children in 2007. This was in response to Messi’s own medical ailments that he faced as a child. The foundation works towards providing children diagnosed with illnesses treatment in Spain funds covering the transport, hospital and recuperation costs. Most of the funds collected by the organization is through Messi’s own effort with a little aid by Herbalife.
• Messi was the goodwill ambassador for UNICEF in 2010. He worked towards supporting children’s rights.
• In 2013, Messi donated a sum of €600,000 for the restoration of a children's hospital by the name Victor J Vilela Children's Hospital, in his hometown of Rosario, Argentina. The donated amount was basically used in restoring the oncology unit of the hospital and paying for doctors to travel to Barcelona for training.

“I made a lot of sacrifices by leaving Argentina, leaving my family to start a new life. But everything I did, I did for football, to achieve my dream.     That’s why I didn’t go out partying, or do a lot of other things.”– Lionel Messi

Other Facts which you dont Know

• Despite his fame, he still maintains close connections with the people of Rosario, his hometown. He is also the international ambassador of Rosario.
• In 2012/13, Messi set an all time world record of scoring in 21 consecutive games (33 goals from 21 games)
• He holds the Guinness World Record for most goals in a calender year – 86 goals during 2012.
• He is the only player to score in four consecutive Champions League campaigns.
  

  As of February 2014, Messi has scored 343 club goals out of 434 appearances (including Barcelona B team)
• His international record for Argentina is 37 goals from 83 appearances.
• Messi holds the record for the most hat-tricks scored (four in total) in Champions League.
• He is the only player with four FIFA Ballon d'Or awards and three European Golden Shoe awards. Additionally, he won the Golden Ball award twice and the European Golden Boy award once.