Lionel Andrés Messi Cuccittini, also known as Leo Messi is an Argentine footballer who also holds Spanish nationality since 2005. Plays as a striker for F. C
Since 2009 is considered by many sporting bodies, by several players, by legendary host of former players, coaches and the media in general as "the current best player in the world" and for some athletes, players and coaches the best ever. On Thursday, January 24, 2013 the President of FIFA, Sepp Blatter, also highlighted the best in the world He received the award for Best World Player and FIFA Golden Ball in 2009. It is also the first winner of the Golden Ball FIFA since 2010 includes both awards, again winning the 2011 and 2012 editions.
Leo Messi began playing football at a young age and his potential was quickly identified by FC Barcelona. He left Rosario-while active in the Club Atlético Newell's Old Boys, and moved to Europe at age 13 with his family, where the Barcelona offered to pay the expenses of its hormonal disease (900 per month). He made his debut in the first team of FC Barcelona on November 16, 2003 in a friendly match against FC Porto trained by Jose Mourinho.60 However its debut in an official match came the following year, in the season 2004/2005, in league against RCD Espanyol. Messi managed convirtirse at age 16, the youngest player in Barcelona in a game of the First Division of the Spanish League. Barcelona eventually won League 2004/2005 and the following year the club did the double winning the Champions League 2005/06 UEFA. His breakthrough season was in 2006/07. From that moment it became part of the starting lineup, where he scored a hat-trick in El Clásico against Real Madrid and ended the season with 14 goals in 26 games. The season 2008/2009 was that of his consecration as best player in the world at that time. Barcelona won the treble that season, and Messi scored a total of 38 goals. In season 2009/2010 Messi got a club record, scoring 47 goals, of which 34 were in league competition. This ended up taking the Golden Boot and equaling the record scorer Ronaldo 1996/1997.61 season In season 2010/2011, the Flea got some titles with his club. Among the list of winners stand fifth time the League and the Champions League Championship for the third time. Also was individually awarded the Golden Ball In season 2011/2012 Messi won the inaugural Best Player Award UEFA and later his third Ballon d'For individual figures, the Flea set a record historical world 73 official goals with FC Barcelona and surpassing the previous, Archie Stark, which was in force for 87 years. Also finalized a total of 82 official goals including those converted with Argentina and achieved a new record by converting 50 goals in La Liga (a record for the Golden Boot, beating Dudu Georgescu). In the Champions League UEFA struck five goals in a game (7-1 against Bayer Leverkusen), positioned as top scorer in a single edition of the tournament with 14 goals (reaching record José Altafini) and be 4 times in a row leading scorer. In season 2011/2012, Lionel got a series of record highs among which stand out the Guinness World Record for their 91 official goals in a year, the Golden Ball for the fourth time and the Golden Boot for the third time. By obtaining these two latest awards, Messi managed to position itself as the top solo winner of two of the major individual awards worldwide. Moreover, the Argentine won a couple of national titles, highlighting the League have obtained for the sixth time in nine years.
Messi is an outstanding player of the Argentina, where he currently serves as captain of equipo.62 In 2006 he became the youngest player in the Argentina to attend a World Cup, with which he won the runner-up in the 2007 Copa America. In 2008, Beijing Olympics, won his first international honor, the Medal of Gold at the end of 2011 was selected as one of 32 most popular personalities of the year by TIME magazine, running as a candidate for the "Person of the year ", being the only athlete nominated in the list. In 2012, Lionel Messi managed to score 12 goals in a year with the national team, matching the mark set in 1998 Gabriel Batistuta
Barcelona
Football Club is an organization multisport city was founded as Spain
barcelona football club2 the November 29, 1899 for twelve sports fans
young players led by the Swiss Hans Gamper. The F. C. Barcelona
is popularly known as Barca in reference to their colors, uses the term
Catalans, Catalan Blaugranes coming from the institutional level, the
Football Club Barcelona known to his fans as Barca and is at your
service, to meet partners, supporters and general
public, the OAB who asks where is served in the official languages of
the club, who are Catalan, Castilian and English,One of the main features of F. C. Barcelona is its sports. Besides
its main section, the football, the club has four other professional
sections: the basketball, handball, roller hockey and football. Among the five professional sections, the F. C. Barcelona
Champions League sum 34 (or in the case Euroleague Basketball) Note 1
which makes it the most successful club in Europe and the only one who
has achieved the highest continental title in five different team
sports. Had
the milestone of winning the Champions League consecutively, for 17
years, since the season 1995/96 to 2011/12 with some of their other
professional and get 'double' with sections of Handball and Hockey
Skates 1996 seasons /
97, 1999/00 and 2004/05, with sections and Roller Hockey Basketball in
season 2009/10 and sections and Handball Cup in season 2010/11. Also
noteworthy is the fact that since the season 1988/89 which starts with
the football team's victory in the final of the Cup Winners Cup in Bern
against Sampdoria until 2011/12, every season for 24 years, some of the club
sports lifted a title seasons europeo. 10 As regards, in the overall
calculation of titles won by all sections excluding regional, season
2011/12 is the most successful club with 16 titles (15 if we professional sections). It is the season 2010/11 with 14 titles and the 2009/10 with 13. In
addition to these five professional sections, the club has sections
amateurs in other sports: hockey male and female, male and female
athletics, male and female skating, ice hockey, men's and women's
volleyball, rugby, beach soccer, football indoor, women's football and wheelchair basketball. The 10 sports disciplines senior men's team have brought to club 95 national championships and 117 glasses of Spain. For
the first time in its history, in the season 2011/12, will be five
professional club teams will compete for the European Cup in their
respective specialties.Another distinctive deeds is their membership of members and supporters. The
club reached 180,000 in 2011 socios11 12 making it the second football
club with more partners in the world (the first is the SL Benfica),
followed by Manchester United.13 There are also more than 1,800
supporters clubs spread worldwide. It should be noted that the F. C. Barcelona
is one of only four professional clubs in Spain (along with Real
Madrid, Athletic Bilbao and Osasuna) that is not a corporation, so that
ownership of the club lies with their partners.It
is one of the most popular teams in the country with the second largest
number of fans in Spain with 25.7% of football supporters according to a
study conducted in May 2007 by the Center for Sociological
Research (CIS) -14 and the world.15 16 is the team with the most
national titles in Spain and in Europe, 17 in their windows telling 18
nationally with 22 leagues, 26 Cups, 2 League Cups, 10 and
3 Super Cups Eva Duarte Cups and internationally with 2 Club World Cup,
4 European Cups, 4 Cup Winners Cup, Fairs Cup 3 and 4 Super Cups
Europe.17 18 F. C. Barcelona
has won 79 official titles, which makes him the team with the most
titles in España.19 20 Its two historic rivals are the Spanish RCD,
against contesting the Catalan derby, and Real Madrid, whom he faces in "
El Clásico ', this being one of the largest gatherings of football rivalry mundial.21According to statistics by the IFFHS, the F. C. Barcelona is the best team in Europe and worldwide in the first decade of the century to XXI.22 23 On December 31, 2009, the F. C. Barcelona
leads with 807 points the historical classification of world club
ranking that realized until the end of 2009 the IFFHS, with a difference
of 81 points over second in the ranking (Manchester United) .24 Note
also that according to the annual ranking of clubs making
the IFFHS in 1997, 2009 and 2011 was designated as the best team in
world football, 25 26 being also the most capped club said
clasificación.27 header is also the football team has appeared more
times on podiums FIFA World Player (15) and Golden Ball (20) .28In
2009 the club won every competition he played (League Cup Spain Super
Cup, Champions League, European Super Cup and Club World Cup), going
down in history as the first team in the world to achieve a "sextet" , to win six official titles in the same year.
this team hasthree uniformsthesehave evolvedsince1920their uniformsare
