| Capital: | € 380 million |
| Age: | 32 |
| Born: | June 24, 1987 |
| Country of origin: | Argentina |
| Source of wealth: | Soccer player |
| Last updated: | 2022 |
Short introduction
Born in Rosario, Lionel Messi is an Argentine soccer player with additional Spanish citizenship that is bound by a contract with FC Barcelona. Wing players and 1.70 meters strikers are considered as one of the most successful athletes in their discipline and have been crowned with the title of world soccer players several times. As a player who plays several hundred matches for FC Barcelona and remains loyal to the club since his professional debut, he is considered a club legend and, with Cristiano Ronaldo, is considered the best player at the moment. In addition, as a soccer player with an estimated annual income of 110 million euros, he is one of the best paid athletes in the world. In the Vita there are several championships and Spanish victory in the Champions League.
Early life
Lionel Messi was born on June 24, 1987 in Rosario, the third largest city in Argentina. At the age of five, he took his first step at Grandoli FC, but three years later he moved to the Argentine New Club Youth Division Newell’s Old Boys, who won the Argentina championship several times. Because of the Argentine economic crisis, his parents emigrated to Spain with him and three of his siblings in 2000. During the trial training at FC Barcelona, the striker as high as 1.40 meters was very convincing that he received a contract worth 600 euros per month in the academy in the academy Spanish club youth. In the main season, Lionel Messi scored 35 goals for the youth team in 30 matches.
Career highlights
Lionel Messi scored his first goal for the first team of FC Barcelona on May 1, 2005 against Albacete Balompié and was considered as the youngest league shooter until he was replaced by his teammate in the future Anu Fati. At the end of the same season, he also won the Spanish championship. Lionel Messi is the top scorer in the Spanish League for the first time in the 2009/10 season after scoring 34 times in one season. Lionel Messi secured the title of world soccer player for the first time in 2009 and then won the trophy five times. Messi won the World Cup with the U-20 national team in 2005 and finished second in Germany with a senior national team in Brazil in 2014.
Famous quotes
“I am more concerned about being a good person than being the best football player in the world. When it’s all over, what’s left for you? ”
“It doesn’t matter if I’m better than Cristiano Ronaldo. The important thing is that Barcelona is better than Madrid. ”
“To become a legend, you have to win a world title.”
Amazing facts
Lionel Messi stopped growing due to lack of growth hormone at the age of 11 years. Because his parents were unable to pay monthly maintenance costs for the 900 Euro hormone therapy, FC Barcelona then took over.
Lionel Messi played his first international international team against Hungary in 2005. But after only 47 seconds the replacement striker had to leave the field after seeing a red card due to attack.
It can be easily prevented that Messi does not achieve important success with the national team. So he was offered a place in the Spanish national team, which won European champions in 2008 and 2012 and world champion in 2010.