Name : Lionel Andrés "Leo" Messi Cuccittini
Birthdate : June 24, 1987
Birthplace : Rosario, Argentina
Salary: 20 million EUR (2014)
Current teams: FC Barcelona (#10 / Forward), Argentina national football team (Midfielder, Forward)
Lionel Andrés "Leo" Messi Cuccittini is an Argentine professional footballer who plays for Spanish club Barcelona and the Argentina national team. He is a forward and serves as captain for Argentina. Messi was born in Rosario, Santa Fe province, from partner Jorge Horacio Messi, a factory worker, and Celia María Cuccittini iron, a part-time cleaner. From the lineage of his father, he was from Ancona, a town in Italy, where his ancestor, Angelo Messi, emigrated to Argentina in 1883. He had two older brothers, Rodrigo and Matías, and a sister, María Sol. At the age of five, Messi started playing football for Grandoli, the local football club who trained his father, Jorge. In 1995, Messi joined Newell's Old Boys is based in his hometown, Rosario. He became part of the local forces lost only once in four years, and was known as "Machine 87", from the year of their birth.
At the age of 11, Messi was diagnosed with growth hormone deficiency. Elite team River Plate interested in the development, but they did not have enough money for treatment, which reached $ 900 per month. Carles Rexach, the sporting director of FC Barcelona, has found Talente Messi because he has relatives in Lleida, and his father set up a trial with the team. Rexach, without carrying paper in hand at the time, filed a contract bid on Messi at the top of a paper serviette. Barcelona offered to pay for treatment Messi if he wants to move to Spain. Messi and his father moved to Barcelona, and he went into the club's youth academy.
Messi plays for Barca youth team, Infantil B and Cadete B & A from 2000 to 2003 (scoring 37 goals in 30 games in the Cadete A). 2003-04 season, he set records in five different teams: performing one match in Juvenil B (one goal), and was promoted to Juvenil A (14 games, 21 goals). Then he appeared to FC Barcelona C in Tercera Division, on 29 November 2003 and for FC Barcelona B in Segunda División B on March 6, 2004. He played for the teams throughout the season (eight games, five goals, and five games, without goals). Even before the debut debut, Messi has appeared officially for the first time to the first team on 16 November 2003 within the age of 16 years and 145 days, in a friendly match against FC Porto.
Less than a year after its debut, Frank Rijkaard gave first La Liga debut opportunity for Messi in a match against RCD Espanyol on October 16, 2004 (17 years 114 days), becoming the third youngest player to play for Barca and the club's youngest player in La Liga, before finally record broken by Bojan Krkic in September 2007. When he scored his first senior face Albacete Balompié on May 1, 2005, Messi was 15 years, 10 months and 7 days, became the youngest scorer in the history of Barcelona before returning broken by Krkic in 2007, which Messi scored on assists. Messi said about his former coach, Rijkaard: "I will never forget the fact that he is the start of my career, which gave me the confidence I had at the age of 16 and 17 years". During that season, he also played for FC Barcelona B, scored 6 goals from 17 matches.
In December 2012, Barcelona announced that Messi would sign a five-year contract extension which will keep him at the club until 2018 and raising his base salary to €16 million ($21.2 million) net, which will make him the highest on-field earner in football. As the tax bracket for this level of income in Spain is 56%, it means that Barcelona will have to pay Messi's income tax of a little over €20 million ($26.5 million). His formal buy-out clause remains at €250 million.
Records :
World
Most FIFA Ballon d'Or awards: 4
Guinness World Records title for the most goals in a year (2012): 91 goals (96 goals including club friendlies)
Most international goals in a calendar year (2012): 25 (shared with Vivian Woodward and Cristiano Ronaldo)
Youngest two-time/three-time/four-time Ballon d'Or winner: 23/24/25 years
Most FIFA Club World Cup Golden Balls: 2 (2009,2011
Most appearances in the top 3 candidates for the Ballon d'Or: 8 times (2007-2014)
Most appearances in the FIFPro World XI: 8 times (2007-2014) (shared with Cristiano Ronaldo)
Europe
Most goals scored in a season (club): 73 goals
Most goals scored in a year (club): 79 goals
Most UEFA Champions League top scorer awards: 5
Most consecutive Champions League top scorer awards: 4
Most hat-tricks in UEFA Champions League: 5
Highest scorer in a UEFA Champions League game - shared with Luiz Adriano: 5 goals
Most goals scored in the UEFA Champions League: 77 goals (shared with Cristiano Ronaldo)
Argentina
Most goals scored in a year (national team): 12 goals (shared with Gabriel Batistuta)
Youngest player that have scored a goal at the FIFA World Cup: 18 years and 357 days old (2006 vs Serbia & Montenegro)
Most goals scored in International friendlies: 24
Most goals scored, alongside Javier Saviola, in all U-20 International competitions (2004-2005): 11 goals (14 goals including friendlies)
Most goals scored in one FIFA World Cup qualification (2014): 10
Spain
Most goals scored in La Liga history: 283 goals
Most assists made in La Liga history
Most goals scored in La Liga in a season: 50 goals
Most consecutive La Liga matches scored in: 21 matches (33 goals)
Most La Liga hat-tricks in a season (co-record): 8 hat-tricks (shared with Cristiano Ronaldo)
Youngest player to score 200 La Liga goals: 25 years
Most goals scored in El Clasico: 21
Most goals scored in Derbi barceloní matches: 12 goals
Most braces in La Liga history: 80
Most goals scored in the Supercopa de España: 10 goals
Only top goalscorer and top assists supplier in the same league season: 2011/12 (50 goals and 15 assists)
First player to score in every game for half of La Liga season (2012/13): 30 goals (in 19 consecutive Matches)
Highest goalscoring average in a La Liga Season (2012/2013): 1,44 goals/game (46 goals in 32 matches)
Most Home goals in a league season (2011/12): 35 goals (in 19 Home matches)
Most Away goals in a league season (2012/13): 24 goals (in 19 Away matches)
Most Away matches scored in, in a league season (2012/13): 15 games
Teams scored against in a season (2012/13): 19 (shared with Ronaldo and Cristiano Ronaldo)
Barcelona
Top goalscorer in Barcelona history: 425
Top goalscorer in official competitions: 397
Top goalscorer in La Liga: 275
Top scorer in international competitions: 80
Most hat-tricks in Barcelona history: 32
Most La Liga hat-tricks overall: 24
Most away goals scored in Barcelona history in La Liga: 120 goals
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