June 24,1987 might be the birthday of many people in this world...But,for the soccer world,its the date when a genius,highly gifted Argentine was born..His name is LIONEL ANDRES MESSI,commonly known as LIONEL MESSI... Well..He is currently playing for the mighty Catalan side called BARCELONA... He was the Youngest player to feature in a World Cup at the age of 19.. Regarding his league team,Barcelona,the young maestro has promised everything for his club.. He was Signed from Barcelona B team in the year 2004 and won the Spanish La Liga that season and won another title next year.Those two years almost belonged to Barcelona because of the likes of MESSI, RONALDINHO, DECO, XAVI, GUDJOHNSEN and others.. He has got a medal under his name for his team's success in UEFA Champions League in the year 2005-06... It was a dream come year for Messi in 2005 as he won all the 3 major titles with his Spanish Team and won U-20 World Cup for Argentina... He is compared with the Argentine Legend DIEGO MARADONA and often referred as "MARADONA II" since his style of play and Physical feature replicates the star.. Messi is well known for his fast tempo in the game irrespective of having the ball or not,his stunning dribbling skill and get past the defenders.. Well..the moment to forget about him was he was given RED CARD in his first game for Argentina and was sent out against Hungary..He was substitute in that match and made his entry to the match in the 63rd minute and was sent off 40 seconds after that...He has scored 9 goals for his team in 29 appearances.. His team was second best in the Copa America 2007 losing to their rival team in South America BRAZIL by 3-0..The Young genius is yet to win a World Cup under his name and his team depends more on him..
Messi was the 3rd youngest player to play for Barcelona FC and the star was voted as the second best FIFA Player of the year 2007 behind his South American star KAKA of Brazil.. Apart from scoring the goals,he has assisted many goals for his team and one of them is that he helped his teammate BOJAN KRKIC to score,becoming the youngest player in the Barcelona history to score,breaking the record of MESSI!!!who did this in the year 2007.. One of Messi's superb goal came against Bayern Munich when he hammered past the goalkeeper with a superb lobbed shot.. There are many more days to come and this young Argentine has more to prove his talent than what he has done now.. I wish him a good luck for his future in any league team he plays for and his national team too...
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