Full Name: Lionel Messi
Place of Birth: Argentina, June 24, 1987
Age: 21 years (yes really young ...)
Height: 169 cm
Weight: 67 kg
Back number: 10
Statistics in the Primera Liga this season (up to this writing):
Main: 14 times
Goals: 10
Assists: 6
Note:
A club appearances and goals of senior
calculated from the domestic league only and
correct as of 21:12, 29 September 2007.
2 Appearances and goals in the national team
correct as of 26 September 2007.
3 Lionel Andrés Messi (born on June 24, 1987 in Rosario) is an Argentine football player. His position is striker. Currently he reinforces FC Barcelona in La Liga (Spanish League). Ability often makes it dubbed as "the new Diego Maradona".
At first the player plays the agency acted in 169 cm Grandoli club, club care Jorge Messi, who was none other than her father's Messi. Then he switched to Newell's Old Boys. However, this club could not afford the cost of hormone therapy that reaches 500,000 pounds per month. Fortunately Barcelona immediately capture great potential and offered him Leo Messi moved to Spain to join the Catalan club to finance all of this plus the cost of therapy.
"I only took less than 10 minutes to believe that he is a future star." Said the coach of Barcelona B at the time, Carles Rexach. "Throughout my career for 40 years, I never saw a player who is really talented. someone with minimal knowledge of football would be able to realize the great ability of messi. "
His talent attracted worldwide attention when in action with Argentina national football team at the World Youth Cup and Barcelona in 2005. In 2006 he successfully helped Barcelona before an injury in the quarterfinals of resistance against Chelsea in the Champions League. Messi, who has a rather small body that is very agile on the field and often open up space for his colleagues are chasing a goal.
