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Lionel Andrés Messi was born on June 24, 1987, in Rosario, Argentina. At the age of five, he started playing football for Grandoli, a club coached by his father.later on Messi joined the youth team of Newell’s Old Boys in 1995.  By the age of 13 messi joined the barcelona youth academy and ever since he's became the best in the world.

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Messi began football at a young age and his potential was quickly seen by Barcelona. He left Newell's Old Boys' youth team in September 2000 and moved with his family to Europe in February 2001

Charly Rexach, the then first team director of FCB, famously got Messi to sign his first contract with the club on a paper napkin.

Messi has donated around one million euro for the clinical and healthcare support in his home country Argentina During COVID pandemic.

Messi relocated to Spain from Argentina aged 13 to join Barcelona, for whom he made his competitive debut aged 17 in October 2004.

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He led Argentina’s national team to win the 2021 Copa América and the 2022 World Cup, when he again won the Golden Ball award.

Messi is a player who has been named the world’s best men’s player of the year six times (2009–12, 2015, and 2019)

.During the season in 2012 Lionel Messi put up an astonishing 91 goals, shattering the old record of 85 that was held by Gerd Muller Over a total of 69 games, Messi scored 79 for Barcelona and another 12 for his home country of Argentina.

Lionel Messi is the best men's soccer player of all time. Winning the World Cup cemented that part of his legacy but he never really needed it. Even before the start of the tournament, many already considered him the best of all time.

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WHY HE SHOULD BE RECOGNIZED.
leo messi has now become the greatest soccer player of all time he was one of the youngest players to play in the competitive league la liga at the age of 17 he won the la liga trophy and later on won the supercopa de espana and at the age of 22 he won his first ballon D'or being named the best men's player of the year and since he has won 37 awards including 7 ballon D'ors and the 2022 world cup. leo messi has also donated over 1 million to charity

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https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lionel-Messi
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