Lionel Messi born 24 June 1987 in Rosario, Argentina. From the age of 5 years, Lionel plays football in a small club of his city. Very talented, the boy nevertheless encounter serious obstacles when experiencing health difficulties. A hormonal disease prevents it from growing and jeopardizes his career possible. After two years of treatment, Lionel has sufficiently grown up and joined the youth team of Barcelona. He later joined FC Barcelona and quickly became indispensable to the club. Despite its 69 meter, it dribble as a person and his talent dazzles fans. Author of 400 goals, Lionel Messi is the only player in the world to quadruple gold ball and he is the first scorer of Argentina. The record holder managed to lead his team in the final of the 2014 World Cup face the Mannschaft. Recognition of football is such a neologism borrowed its name joined the Spanish dictionary "imessionante". The adjective refers to the extraordinary way the attacker to play football.
More discreet than some of his colleagues, Messi admits love live a quiet life in the company of his wife Antonella and her son Thiago. He thus prefers evenings out with cartoons to players. Far from flashy, the player is nevertheless the second highest paid footballer in the world in 2013, behind David Beckham