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Lionel Andrés "Leo" Messi (Spanish articulation: [ljoˈnel anˈdɾes ˈmesi] ( tune in); conceived 24 June 1987) is an Argentine expert footballer who plays as a forward for Spanish club FC Barcelona and the Argentina national group. Frequently considered the best player on the planet and appraised by numerous in the game as the best ever, Messi is the main football player in history to win five FIFA Ballons d'Or, four of which he won sequentially, and the primary player to win three European Golden Shoes.[note 2] With Barcelona he has won eight La Liga titles and four UEFA Champions League titles, and in addition four Copas del Rey. Both a productive goalscorer and an inventive playmaker, Messi holds the records for most objectives scored in La Liga, a La Liga season (50), a football season (82), and a timetable year (91), and in addition those for most helps made in La Liga and the Copa América.

Brought up in focal Argentina, Messi was determined to have a development hormone insufficiency as a tyke. At age 13, he migrated to Spain to join Barcelona, who consented to pay for his restorative treatment. After a quick movement through Barcelona's childhood foundation, Messi made his aggressive presentation matured 17 in October 2004. In spite of being damage inclined amid his initial vocation, he built up himself as an essential player for the club inside the following three years, completing 2007 as a finalist for both the Ballon d'Or and FIFA World Player of the Year honor, an accomplishment he rehashed the next year. His initially continuous battle came in the 2008–09 season, amid which he helped Barcelona accomplish the primary treble in Spanish football. At 22 years of age, Messi won the Ballon d'Or and FIFA World Player of the Year honor by record voting edges.

Three fruitful seasons took after, with Messi winning three continuous FIFA Ballons d'Or, including a phenomenal fourth. His own best crusade to date was the 2011–12 season, in which he set the La Liga and European records for most objectives scored in a solitary season, while setting up himself as Barcelona's untouched top scorer in authority rivalries in March 2012. He again battled with harm amid the accompanying two seasons, twice completing second for the Ballon d'Or behind Cristiano Ronaldo, his apparent profession rival. Messi recaptured his best frame amid the 2014–15 battle, breaking the untouched goalscoring records in both La Liga and the Champions League in November 2014, and drove Barcelona to a notable second treble.

An Argentine worldwide, Messi is his nation's record-breaking driving goalscorer. At youth level, he won the 2005 FIFA World Youth Championship, completing the competition with both the Golden Ball and Golden Shoe, and an Olympic gold decoration at the 2008 Summer Olympics. His style of play as a modest, left-footed dribbler drew correlations with countryman Diego Maradona, who proclaimed the young person his successor. In the wake of making his senior presentation in August 2005, Messi turned into the most youthful Argentine to play and score in a FIFA World Cup amid the 2006 release, and achieved the last of the 2007 Copa América, where he was named youthful player of the competition. As the squad's skipper from August 2011, he drove Argentina to three successive finals of the 2014 World Cup, for which he won the Golden Ball, and the 2015 and 2016 Copas América. He was indicted charge misrepresentation conferred from 2007 to 2009, for which he got a fine and a suspended jail sentence.

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