Lionel Messi Research Paper

Lionel Andrés Messi is an Argentine professional soccer player who plays as a forward for Spanish club FC Barcelona and the Argentina national team. Lionel Messi is commonly known as “Leo Messi”. Messi was born on June 24, 1987, and is currently 30 years old. At the age 13, Messi moved from Argentina to Spain after FC Barcelona agreed to pay for his medical treatments. After that, he became a star and because of him, his club led to the championships. When Messi was a young boy, he always played soccer along with his two older brothers and their friends. When he was eight years old, he was called in to join the youth program “ Newell’s Old Boys” a Rosario based club. Messi was smaller than most of the kids his age in the group. Soon he was diagnosed by his doctors as suffering from a hormone deficiency that stopped him from growing. Messi’s parents decided on a regimen of nightly growth-hormone injections for Messi, soon it was impossible for his parents to pay hundreds of dollars per months for the medication. When Messi was 13 and he was offered the chance to train at a soccer powerhouse FC Barcelona’s youth academy, La Masia, and have his bills covered by the team. Soon …show more content…
He put himself in the record books in 2005, as the youngest player to ever score a goal for the franchise. In the same year, he led Argentina to the title in the under-20 World Cup, scoring on a pair of penalty kicks to propel the team over Nigeria. At the end of 2012 Messi, had made 91 goals in the club and international play, eclipsing the 85 netted in a single calendar year. The soccer great came back to earth somewhat that year due to the persistence of hamstring injuries, but he regained his record-breaking form by becoming the all-time leading scorer in La Liga and Champions League play in late 2014. After helping Barcelona achieve a historic second treble in 2015, he was honored with his fifth FIFA Ballon d'Or