Born in 1987, in Rosario, Argentina, Lionel Messi is an Argentinean soccer player who is currently playing for a European soccer club FC Barcelona as a forward. He has played in Barcelona since his professional career as a soccer player started. Also the Messi is Spanish as well too; because he has lived in Spain for aver five years and therefore he got his Spanish citizenship. With only 169 centimeters of height, and 68 kg of weight, Lionel Messi has achieved lots of things with the national and club teams, but also many personal awards during his young career as a professional player that is still going on.
Messi started to play soccer at a very young age, in his hometown Rosario, Argentina. While in Argentina Messi played fo show more conten 😃
With just 17 years old Messi made his first appearance in an official match against Fc Espanol, in 2004. In Addition, Messis first accomplishment was becoming the youngest Fc Barcelona player, to score a goal in the first division Spanish League at that time. This was also the same year that Messi was able to make his debut in the Spanish first division league, and also winning the league along with other great players like, Ronaldinho, Deco, and Eto’o, etc.
Moreover, Messi only nineteen years old had to make a choice, which was whether to play for the Argentineans or the Spain national team. This was because he had not play for any of this national team yet, and since he was born in Argentina, but had the Spanish citizenship he could have played for any it would not be a problem. For Messi it was a tough decision to make, because he probably did not what was more obvious to do, if play for the nation where he was born, or play and defend the colors for the nation that help him overcome his disorder and also to become a professional soccer player. After all, Messi decided to play for the Sub-20, Argentinean squad that went to the Sub-20 world cup, in Holland. During this tournament Messi was named, “The most valuable player”, of the tournament. And was also awarded with the, “Golden Boot”, that the turnament gives to the,” MVP”. Furthermore, Messi was selected to play for the, “South American Cup’’, in Venezuela, with the Argentinean national
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