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Lionel Messi was born, 24 June 1987, in Rosario, Argentina. His mother a cleaner and His father was a factory steel worker. He began playing from an early age. Lionel Messi said, “I made a lot of sacrifices by leaving Argentina, leaving my family to start a new life. However, everything I did, I did for football, to achieve my dream.
Lionel Messi is an Argentinian football player. He was consider as the one of the best players of the modern generation. He plays for FC Barcelona and the Argentina national team. He has won FIFA world player of the year four times .He has often been described as Diego Maradona’s successor because of the number of his goals in his record and ability to dribble past opponents. Diego Maradona said”I have seen the player who will inherit my place in Argentine football and his name is Messi. Messi is a smart player and he can become the best player.” Messi plays for Barcelona Naderi said that Barcelona is his life and his record 292 of 359 matches
Gave him an offer to play in the Russian side, but he refused.
In 2012/13, the appointment of Messi scored all Universal Time scoring in 21 consecutive games (33 goals from 21 games) and holds the Guinness World Record for the largest number of number of goals in a calendar year.
Messi was often the target of other football clubs with big budgets transfer.
Messi and as an ambassador for UNICEF, also works for his charitable foundation - supporting access to education and sports for Otafal.hsal Messi "Golden Ball" in 2014 World Cup.





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