Who Is Lionel Messi?
Luis Lionel Andres ("Leo") Messi (b. June 24, 1987) is an Argentinian soccer player who plays forward for the FC Barcelona club and the Argentine national group. At 13 years old, Messi moved from Argentina to Spain after FC Barcelona consented to pay for his medicinal medications. There he turned into a star and drove his club to titles. In 2012, he set a record for most objectives in a date-book year, and in 2016, he was named Europe's Ballon d'Or victor for the fifth time.
Lionel Messi, April 2017. (Photograph: Josep Lago AFP Getty Images)
Lionel Messi, April 2017. (Photograph: Josep Lago AFP Getty Images)
Lionel Messi's Net Worth
Starting at 2017 Lionel Messi is justified regardless of an expected $80 million, considering his compensation in addition to rewards and supports, as per Forbes.com. That makes Messi the second most generously compensated soccer player and the third most generously compensated competitor on the planet, after kindred soccer awesome Cristiano Ronaldo and b-ball star LeBron James. Universally viewed as the best soccer player in the diversion, Messi has turned into the business face of soccer with supports from Adidas, Pepsi, EA Sports and Turkish Airways, among different organizations.
How Tall Is Lionel Messi?
Lionel Messi is 5 feet, 7 inches tall and weighs 72 kilograms (159 pounds). With his short stature, speed and persistent assaulting style, Messi has attracted correlations with another acclaimed Argentinian footballer: Diego Maradona.
Birthday
Lionel Messi was conceived on June 24, 1987, in Rosario, Argentina.
Spouse and Wedding
On June 30, 2017, Lionel Messi wedded Antonella Roccuzzo, his long-lasting sweetheart and the cousin of his closest companion and kindred soccer player Lucas Scaglia. Messi met Roccuzzo in the place where they grew up of Rosario when he was five years of age. Their marriage, a common function named by Argentina's Clarín daily paper as the "wedding of the century," was held at a lavish inn in Rosario, with various kindred star soccer players and Colombian pop star Shakira on the 260-man list of attendees.
Messi's Sons
Messi turned into a father in November 2012 when Roccuzzo brought forth a child, Thiago. In September 2015, the couple's second child, Mateo, was conceived.
Early Life
As a young man, Lionel Messi followed along when his two more established siblings played soccer with their companions, unintimidated by the greater young men. At eight years old, he was selected to join the adolescent arrangement of Newell's Old Boys, a Rosario-based club.
Conspicuously littler than the vast majority of the children in his age gathering, Messi was in the long run analyzed by specialists as torment from a hormone lack that limited his development. Messi's folks, Jorge and Ceclia, settled on a regimen of daily development hormone infusions for their child, however it soon demonstrated difficult to pay a few hundred dollars for each month for the solution. Thus, at 13 years old, when Messi was offered the opportunity to prepare at soccer powerhouse FC Barcelona's childhood institute, La Masia, and have his doctor's visit expenses secured by the group, Messi's family gotten and moved over the Atlantic to make another home in Spain. In spite of the fact that he was frequently yearning to go home in his new nation, Messi moved rapidly through the lesser framework positions.
