Messi ran more than half the length of the field and beat six players before slotting the ball into the net from a tight angle. He left the field in tears.Ĭomparisons with Diego Maradona seemed apt when Messi scored a stunning goal in a Copa del Rey game against Getafe in April 2007.
He was sidelined for six weeks again after tearing a thigh muscle this March against Celtic. He tore a thigh in a Champions League tie against Chelsea in 2006 before breaking his foot the following season. No injury is ever likely to faze Messi after coming through his childhood difficulties, but he does seem to have had some bad ones. It is said she was only 14 when they met. Messi is said to be dating an Argentinian teenager called Maracena Lemos, an aspiring model whom he met during a period of recuperation from injury.
He overcame injury to feature in the 2006 World Cup and helped his team reach the Copa America final last year. Messi is a Spanish citizen but chose to represent Argentina. They defeated their Rivals Real Madrid 6-1 in the El Classico at the Bernabeu and took revenge over Manchester United by defeating then in the UEFA Champions league finals. He scored 38 Goals in all competitions helping his team win the Treble- The Spanish Cup, La Liga and the UEFA Champions League. They missed out of the La Liga title to Real and were defeated by a single goal in the UEFA Champions league semifinals by Manchester United It was chiefly through his form that the Catalan club reached the Champions League semifinals after a domestic title challenge had long since fizzled out.Ģ007-2008 was "so near yet so far" for Messi and Barca. Yet, through it all Messi, despite another lengthy spell out injured, has been the star. He became the youngest Barca player ever to score a hat trick against its fiercest rival Real Madrid in ‘El Clasisco’ and netted 11 goals in the last 13 games of the season.īarca fell short in its title defence in 2007 and has lost even more ground to Real Madrid in what has been a difficult 2007-08 campaign. He also missed three months of the following season with a broken metatarsal but the second half of the 2006-07 campaign was when he truly came of age. He shone even in a Barcelona team boasting the ilk of Ronaldinho and Samuel Eto’o but missed the successful conclusion to Barca’s UEFA Champions League run having had his season ended prematurely by a thigh injury.
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He was in the first team by 17 and a full international the following year.
Messi tried out for Barca and the club was so impressed it agreed to pay for his medical treatment.īarca is now receiving enormous return on its investment after Messi rose through the youth ranks to the very top. His parents could not afford it but after some tentative signs of awareness in Messi’s talent from Barcelona, they decided to move to Spain. He showed all the signs of having a promising footballing career ahead of him but at the age of 11 he was diagnosed with a growth hormone deficiency that required expensive treatment. He played at a club called Grandoli, which was coached by his father, from the age of five and later moved to Newell’s Old Boys. Messi was born in Rosario, Argentina, and showed a great aptitude for football as a child. Yet, Messi’s story could have ended before it begun had Barca not taken him under its wing at an early age. That is a difficult tag to carry, but so far he has borne it well. Barcelona is reaping the benefits of his growing maturity on the highest stage and at home in Argentina he has become the latest player to earn the moniker of ‘the new Maradona’.
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