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Lionel Andres Messi (born 24 June 1987) is an Argentine footballer whoplays in La Liga for FC Barcelona and captains the Argentina nationalteam, mainly as a forward.

By the age of 21, Messi received Ballon d'Or and FIFA World Player ofthe Year nominations. The following year he won both the Ballon d'Orand FIFA World Player of the Year in 2009, and won the inaugural FIFABallon d'Or in 2010 and 2011. He also won the 2010-11 UEFA Best Playerin Europe Award. His playing style and small stature has drawncomparisons to Diego Maradona, who himself declared Messi as his"successor".

Messi has won five La Liga titles and three Champions League titles.After scoring 12 goals in the 2010-11 Champions League, Messi becameonly the third player (after Gerd Muller and Jean-Pierre Papin) totop-score in three successive European Champion Clubs' Cup campaigns,and the first since the Champions League changed its format in 1992.Messi is the fourth football player to win three Ballons d'Or, afterJohan Cruyff, Michel Platini and Marco van Basten and the second playerto win three consecutive Ballons d'Or, after Michel Platini (however,two of his Ballons d'Or are FIFA Ballons d'Or, which he wonconsecutively). In 2012, Messi made UEFA Champions League history bybecoming the first player to score five goals in one match, in a 7-1win against Bayer Leverkusen. With two goals in the next round againstA.C. Milan, he matched Jose Altafini's record of 14 goals in a singleUEFA Champions League season. After a further two goals the followingweek against Real Zaragoza, Messi became the first player since GerdMuller in the 1972-73 campaign to score 60 goals in a single Europeanseason.

Messi was the top scorer of the 2005 FIFA World Youth Championship withsix goals, including two in the final game. In 2006, he became theyoungest Argentine to play in the FIFA World Cup and he won arunners-up medal at the Copa America tournament the following year. In2008, in Beijing, he won his first international honour, an Olympicgold medal, with the Argentina Olympic football team.