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In 1993, The Football Association (The FA) switched to persistent squad numbers, abandoning the mandatory use of 1–11 for the starting line-up. The first league event to feature this was the 1993 Football League Cup Final between Arsenal and Sheffield Wednesday, and it became standard in the FA Premier League the following season, along with names printed above the numbers. [6]
On 30 December, Messi scored on his 500th appearance for Barcelona, in a 4–0 home win over Real Betis. [174] On 11 January 2016, Messi won the FIFA Ballon d'Or for a record fifth time in his career. [175] On 3 February, he scored a hat-trick in Barcelona's 7–0 win against Valencia in the first leg of the Copa del Rey semi-final at the Camp ...
Squad number, as depicted on an association football jersey. In team sports, the number, often referred to as the uniform number, squad number, jersey number, shirt number, sweater number, or similar (with such naming differences varying by sport and region) is the number worn on a player's uniform, to identify and distinguish each player (and sometimes others, such as coaches and officials ...
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The Herons, as Inter is nicknamed, took 32 points from 15 matches with Messi absent — or 2.13 points per game, nearly identical to their average in the 18 matches Messi has played.
Messi has a portrait of his mother, Celia, on his back. A large soccer ball adorns his left lower leg. A portrait of Jesus is on his right shoulder, and a lotus flower is among the several tattoos ...
Since 2008, Messi has been in a relationship with Antonela Roccuzzo, who he eventually married on 30 June 2017 in their hometown of Rosario. [ 388 ] [ 389 ] He has known Roccuzzo since he was five years old, as she is the cousin of his childhood best friend, Lucas Scaglia , who is also a football player. [ 390 ]
Officials wear shirts of a different colour to those worn by the two teams and their goalkeepers. [1] Black is the traditional colour worn by officials, and "the man in black" is widely used as an informal term for a referee, [28] [29] although increasingly other colours are being used in the modern era to minimise colour clashes. [30]