Lionel Messi Biography, Age, Career, Achievements, Family, Awards & Net-Worth.
Leo Messi, also known as Lionel Andrés Messi, is an Argentine professional football player who plays forward for Ligue 1 team Paris Saint-Germain and captains the Argentina national team. He was born on June 24, 1987. Messi, who is recognized as one of the all-time best players, has a record seven Ballon d’Or victories, a record six European Golden Shoes, and in 2020, he was selected for the Ballon d’Or Dream Team. He spent his entire professional career with Barcelona, retiring from the team in 2021 after winning a club-record 35 trophies there, including 10 La Liga championships, seven Copa del Rey championships, and four UEFA Champions Leagues. Messi is an outstanding goal scorer and playmaker who holds the records for the most goals in La Liga (474), the most goals in a La Liga and European league season (50), the most hat-tricks in La Liga (36) and the UEFA Champions League (8), and the most assists in La Liga (192), the most assists in a La Liga season (21) and the Copa América (17). Additionally, he holds the record for the most goals scored outside of South America by a man (90). Messi has the most goals by a player for a single club with over 750 in his professional career for club and nation.
Since 2006, Messi has been an Adidas sportswear brand ambassador. He held the title of highest-paid footballer in the world for five out of the six years between 2009 and 2014, according to France Football, and was named the world’s highest-paid athlete by Forbes in 2019 and 2022. In 2011 and 2012, Messi was listed as one of Time’s top 100 world influencers. He became the first football player and the first athlete from a team sport to win the Laureus World Sportsman of the Year award when he received it in February 2020. Later that year, Messi overcame the $1 billion mark in career earnings to become the second football player (and second athlete in a team sport.
Lionel Messi Biography.
Messi was born on June 24, 1987, in Rosario, Santa Fe. He is the third of four children and the husband of steel plant manager Jorge Messi and magnet factory worker Celia Cuccittini. He is the great-grandson of immigrants from the north central Adriatic Marche area of Italy and Catalonia, and he is predominantly of Italian origin on his mother’s side. He is also of Spanish and Italian descent on his father’s side. Leo, who grew up in a close-knit football-loving family, became passionate about the game at a young age while playing with his older brothers Rodrigo and Matas, as well as his cousins Maximiliano and Emanuel Biancucchi, who both went on to play professionally. Messi became a member of the Rosario club when he was six years old and has been a longtime follower of Newell’s Old Boys. As a member of “The Machine of ’87,” the nearly unstoppable youth squad named after the year they were born, he amused fans by performing ball tricks during halftime of the first team’s home matches throughout the six years he played for Newell’s. He also scored nearly 500 goals during that period. When he was diagnosed with a growth hormone shortage at age 10, it put his career as a professional player in jeopardy. The Newell’s agreed to contribute because his father’s health insurance would only pay for growth hormone therapy for two years, which would have cost at least $1,000 a month. However, they eventually broke their word.
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In February 2002, Messi eventually signed up for the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) after spending a year at Barcelona’s youth facility, La Masia. Now participating in all matches, he made friends with his colleagues, namely Cesc Fàbregas and Gerard Piqué. Messi joined the “Baby Dream Team,” Barcelona’s greatest-ever young team, when he finished his growth hormone therapy at the age of 14. In his first full season (2002–03), the Cadetes A accomplished an unprecedented treble by winning the league, the Spanish Cup, and the Catalan Cup, and he led the team in scoring with 36 goals in 30 games.
Lionel Messi Profile
| Full name | Lionel Andrés Messi | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 24 June 1987 | ||
| Place of birth | Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina | ||
| Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Forward | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Paris Saint-Germain | ||
| Number | 30 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1992–1995 | Grandoli | ||
| 1995–2000 | Newell’s Old Boys | ||
| 2000–2003 | Barcelona | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Goals) |
| 2003–2004 | Barcelona C | 10 | (5) |
| 2004–2005 | Barcelona B | 22 | (6) |
| 2004–2021 | Barcelona | 520 | (474) |
| 2021– | Paris Saint-Germain | 34 | (10) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2004–2005 | Argentina U20 | 18 | (14) |
| 2008 | Argentina U23 | 5 | (2) |
| 2005– | Argentina | 164 | (90) |
Lionel Messi Family & Relationship
Messi has been in a relationship with Rosario native Antonela Roccuzzo since 2008. His boyhood best buddy, Lucas Scaglia, a football player, is the cousin of Roccuzzo, whom he has known since he was five years old. During a year of secrecy, Messi first acknowledged their relationship in an interview in January 2009 before making it official a month later at a carnival in Sitges following the Barcelona-Espanyol derby. Three sons were born to Messi and Roccuzzo: Thiago (born in 2012), Mateo (born in 2015), and Ciro (born 2018). After scoring in Argentina’s 4-0 victory over Ecuador on June 2, 2012, Messi placed the ball beneath his shirt to mark his partner’s first pregnancy. He then revealed the news in an interview two weeks later. Thiago was born on November 2, 2012, in Barcelona. Messi revealed that they were expecting a second kid in April 2015. He wed Roccuzzo on June 30, 2017, in Rosario at the opulent Hotel City Center. His wife made the announcement that they were expecting their third child in October 2017.
Messi has a deep bond with the people in his immediate family, especially his mother Celia, whose image is inked on his left shoulder. His work life is essentially managed as a family business: his older brother, Rodrigo, manages his daily schedule and publicity, and his father, Jorge, has been his agent since he was 14. The Leo Messi Foundation is run by his mother and other brother, Matas, who also handle his personal and professional affairs in Rosario.
Lionel Messi Generosity
Due in part to the medical challenges he encountered as a child, Messi has devoted most of his career to humanitarian endeavors aimed at disadvantaged children. He has supported the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), an organization with which Barcelona has a close affiliation, with his time and money since 2004. Since being named a UNICEF goodwill ambassador in March 2010, Messi has traveled to Haiti to raise awareness of the condition of the nation’s children in the wake of the devastating earthquake. Four months later, he completed his first field assignment for the organization.
In addition to his work with UNICEF, Messi established the Leo Messi Foundation, a nonprofit that promotes children’s access to health care, education, and sports. It was started in 2007 as a result of Messi’s visit to a Boston hospital for seriously ill children; this visit had such an impact on him that he decided to donate a portion of his profits to the community.
Lionel Messi Career
Barcelona
La Liga (2004–05, 2005–06, 2008–09, 2009–10, 2010–11, 2012–13, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2017–18, 2018–19)
Copa del Rey (2008–09, 2011–12, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2020–21)
Supercopa de España (2006, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2016, 2018)
UEFA Champions League (2005–06, 2008–09, 2010–11, 2014–15)
UEFA Super Cup (2009, 2011, 2015)
FIFA Club World Cup (2009, 2011, 2015)
Paris Saint German.
Ligue 1 (2021–22)
Trophée des Champions (2022)
Argentina
FIFA World Youth Championship (2005)
Summer Olympics (2008)
Copa América (2021; runner-up: 2007, 2015, 2016)
FIFA World Cup runner-up (2014)
CONMEBOL–UEFA Cup of Champions (2022)
Lionel Messi Individual Achievements and Awards.
Ballon d’Or/FIFA Ballon d’Or (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2019, 2021)
FIFA World Player of the Year (2009)
The Best FIFA Men’s Player (2019)
European Golden Shoe (2009–10, 2011–12, 2012–13, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19)
FIFA World Cup Golden Ball (2014)
FIFA Club World Cup Golden Ball (2009, 2011)
Laureus World Sportsman of the Year (2020)
La Liga Best Player (2008–09, 2009–10, 2010–11, 2011–12, 2012–13, 2014–15)
Pichichi Trophy ( 2009−10, 2011–12, 2012−13, 2016–17, 2017−18, 2018–19, 2019–20, 2020–21)
Argentine Footballer of the Year ( 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021)