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    Lionel Messi is an Argentine professional soccer player who plays forward for Barcelona and the Argentina national team. He is considered the best player in the world and has won a record six Ballon d'Or awards. Messi has spent his entire career with Barcelona, where he has won 34 trophies including 10 La Liga titles and 4 UEFA Champions League titles. He holds the all-time records for goals and assists in La Liga and Champions League. Internationally, Messi is Argentina's all-time leading scorer and won an Olympic gold medal in 2008.

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    Lionel Messi is an Argentine professional soccer player who plays forward for Barcelona and the Argentina national team. He is considered the best player in the world and has won a record six Ballon d'Or awards. Messi has spent his entire career with Barcelona, where he has won 34 trophies including 10 La Liga titles and 4 UEFA Champions League titles. He holds the all-time records for goals and assists in La Liga and Champions League. Internationally, Messi is Argentina's all-time leading scorer and won an Olympic gold medal in 2008.

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    Lionel Messi is an Argentine professional soccer player who plays forward for Barcelona and the Argentina national team. He is considered the best player in the world and has won a record six Ballon d'Or awards. Messi has spent his entire career with Barcelona, where he has won 34 trophies including 10 La Liga titles and 4 UEFA Champions League titles. He holds the all-time records for goals and assists in La Liga and Champions League. Internationally, Messi is Argentina's all-time leading scorer and won an Olympic gold medal in 2008.

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    Lionel Messi is an Argentine professional soccer player who plays forward for Barcelona and the Argentina national team. He is considered the best player in the world and has won a record six Ballon d'Or awards. Messi has spent his entire career with Barcelona, where he has won 34 trophies including 10 La Liga titles and 4 UEFA Champions League titles. He holds the all-time records for goals and assists in La Liga and Champions League. Internationally, Messi is Argentina's all-time leading scorer and won an Olympic gold medal in 2008.

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    Lionel Messi

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    "Messi" redirects here. For other uses, see Messi (disambiguation).
    This article uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is
    Messi and the second or maternal family name is Cuccittini.
    Lionel Messi
    Lionel Messi 20180626.jpg
    Messi with Argentina at the 2018 FIFA World Cup
    Personal information
    Full name Lionel Andres Messi Cuccittini[1]
    Date of birth 24 June 1987 (age 32)[2]
    Place of birth Rosario, Argentina
    Height 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)[3]
    Playing position(s) Forward
    Club information
    Current team
    Barcelona
    Number 10
    Youth career
    1994�2000 Newell's Old Boys
    2001�2004 Barcelona
    Senior career*
    Years Team Apps (Gls)
    2003�2004 Barcelona C 10 (5)
    2004�2005 Barcelona B 22 (6)
    2004� Barcelona 474 (438)
    National team�
    2004�2005 Argentina U20 18 (14)
    2008 Argentina U23 5[?] (2)
    2005� Argentina 138 (70)
    Honours[show]
    * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and
    correct as of 7 March 2020
    � National team caps and goals correct as of 18 November 2019
    Lionel Messi This article is part of a series about
    Lionel Messi
    Argentine professional footballer
    International goalsCareer achievementsComparisons to Cristiano Ronaldo
    Eponym

    Messi (cougar)
    Films

    Messi (2014)Messi (2017)


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    Lionel Andres Messi Cuccittini[note 1] (Spanish pronunciation: [ljo?nel an?d?ez ?
    mesi] (About this soundlisten);[A] born 24 June 1987) is an Argentine professional
    footballer who plays as a forward and captains both Spanish club Barcelona and the
    Argentina national team. Often considered the best player in the world and widely
    regarded as one of the greatest players of all time, Messi has won a record six
    Ballon d'Or awards,[note 2] and a record six European Golden Shoes. He has spent
    his entire professional career with Barcelona, where he has won a club-record 34
    trophies, including ten La Liga titles, four UEFA Champions League titles and six
    Copas del Rey. A prolific goalscorer and a creative playmaker, Messi holds the
    records for most goals in La Liga (438), a La Liga and European league season (50),
    most hat-tricks in La Liga (36) and the UEFA Champions League (8), and most assists
    in La Liga (181) and the Copa America (12). He has scored over 700 senior career
    goals for club and country.
    Born and raised in central Argentina, Messi relocated to Spain to join Barcelona at
    age 13, for whom he made his competitive debut aged 17 in October 2004. He
    established himself as an integral player for the club within the next three years,
    and in his first uninterrupted season in 2008�09 he helped Barcelona achieve the
    first treble in Spanish football; that year, aged 22, Messi won his first Ballon
    d'Or. Three successful seasons followed, with Messi winning three consecutive
    Ballons d'Or, including an unprecedented fourth. During the 2011�12 season, he set
    the La Liga and European records for most goals scored in a single season, while
    establishing himself as Barcelona's all-time top scorer. The following two seasons,
    Messi finished second for the Ballon d'Or behind Cristiano Ronaldo (his perceived
    career rival), before regaining his best form during the 2014�15 campaign, becoming
    the all-time top scorer in La Liga and leading Barcelona to a historic second
    treble, after which he was awarded a fifth Ballon d'Or in 2015. Messi assumed the
    captaincy of Barcelona in 2018, and in 2019 he secured a record sixth Ballon d'Or.

    An Argentine international, Messi is his country's all-time leading goalscorer. At


    youth level, he won the 2005 FIFA World Youth Championship, finishing the
    tournament with both the Golden Ball and Golden Shoe, and an Olympic gold medal at
    the 2008 Summer Olympics. His style of play as a diminutive, left-footed dribbler
    drew comparisons with his compatriot Diego Maradona, who described Messi as his
    successor. After his senior debu

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