With Lionel Messi some physical appearances that really separate him from the rest would be his size. Lionel Messi is pretty short for his age, Messi is about 5' 5 because he has a medical conditions where he can't grow. Fun fact the team that he is in FC Barcelona is paying for his medical …show more content…
In Lionel Messi his background was a armature Argentinean who got rejected by the local team and out of nowhere playing in one of the biggest team in the world. A lot of people criticized Messi because of his size but when he got the ball all of those criticisms went out of the window. For example, people of Barcelona thought that because of his size he was useless but after a couple of years his skills improved and that so call useless player turned out to be one of the best players in the world. Like all great players they get some prize well for Lionel Messi it was the ballon d'or. For example, in 2009 people didn't expect that he will win the ball but if that was a surprise then him winning it for four consecutive years must have been a