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Argentine footballer Lionel Messi, widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time, has been awarded throughout his career a total of eight Ballon d'Or awards and three The Best FIFA Men's Player awards, the most for any player.
Messi's dribbling abilities allow him to weave past several defenders and orchestrate attacking plays. Messi's pace and technical ability enable him to undertake individual dribbling runs towards goal, in particular during counterattacks, usually starting from the halfway line or the right side of the pitch.
Messi (middle) with PSG teammates Kylian Mbappé (left) and Neymar. On 10 August, Messi joined French club Paris Saint-Germain (PSG). [310] He signed a two-year deal until June 2023 with an option for an extra year. [311] Messi chose 30 as his squad number, the same he wore as a teenager when he made his senior debut for Barcelona. [312]
Messi’s first touch of the ball was a silky sequence that we’ve all seen many times — a run, a give-and-go and Messi just weaving his way up the field. He got to the end line and eventually ...
With 140 goals, Cristiano Ronaldo is currently the all-time top scorer in the Champions League, with Lionel Messi and Robert Lewandowski being the only other players to have reached triple figures. Ronaldo has also finished as the top scorer for the most individual seasons in the competition's history, doing so seven times.
[3] [4] [5] Only Ronaldo (four times), Messi, Lewandowski and Benzema (twice each) have scored multiple hat-tricks in the knockout stage. [6] Only Lewandowski has scored a hat-trick for three clubs ( Borussia Dortmund , Bayern Munich and Barcelona ), with a further thirteen players having scored hat-tricks for two clubs.
Messi's World Cup: The Rise of a Legend is a biographical documentary series produced in a collaboration between Apple TV+, SMUGGLER Entertainment and Pegsa Group.The series follows Lionel Messi's triumphant career, his overall impact on football and shows his journey of highs and lows with the Argentina national football team across five World Cups, culminating with his fairytale ending of ...
Messi made his debut for Argentina in a 2–1 away win over Hungary on 17 August 2005, [7] and scored his first international goal the following year in his sixth appearance, against Croatia. [1] His goal against Serbia and Montenegro , on 16 June 2006, at the age of 18 years and 358 days, made him the youngest-ever scorer for Argentina at a ...