Messi

The best soccer player in the world today, the little Argentine wizard “Lionel Messi” will soon be coming to the United States to take part in a fabulous exhibition game. He has hogged the limelight since he burst onto the scene as a very special talent to play for FC Barcelona. Many already put him in the company of the greatest players of all time. Grab your Messi tickets and catch this amazing player dazzle you with his skills.

Messi was born on 24^th June, 1987. He began to play soccer aged five for a team named Grandoli.  He then made the switch to Newell’s Old Boys. It wasn’t long before his talents were noticed by the scouts of FC Barcelona and Messi enrolled himself at the “La Masia,” the club’s famous youth academy.

He started to hone his soccer skills and climbed one step at a time to finally make his first team debut for the club on 16^th November, 2003 in a friendly game against FC Porto. He made his debut in the league for Barcelona in a match against local rivals Espanyol. He scored his debut goal for the first team in a game against Albacete ages only seventeen years and ten months old.

He was made a part of the first squad starting 2005-2006 season and hasn’t looked back since. Messi played twenty six games for the club next season and netted fourteen goals in the process. The highlight of the campaign came in a game against their arch rival Real Madrid. The match ended 3-3 with Messi scoring his first hat-trick in a pulsating encounter.

He played a big part in taking Barcelona to the semifinals of the Champions League next season. He reached new heights in the 2008-2009 campaign and broke multiple records to help his team win the Copa del Rey, La Liga and the Champions League. He also won the first of his four “World Player of the Year” awards at the end of that season. For the second successive year at the end of 2009-2010 season, he again proved a majore factor in ensuring that Barcelona became the champions of Spain . Next campaign saw Barca win both the La Liga and the Champions League one more time on the way to once again being crowned World Player of the Year. Real Madrid won the La Liga back from Barcelona after three years but Messi still scored an incredible seventy two goals, creating a new European record.

He has also played for Argentina seventy-nine times, scoring thirty goals. He is the only player in the history of the sport to be crowned the best player in the world as many as four times. He has also the all time scorer for Barcelona now which is an incredible achievement. Now that he is making his way to these shores make sure you grab Messi tickets and catch the best player in the world live.