# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lionel-messi
# Generated: 2026-09-01T05:07:10.273Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/lionel-messi"
name: "Lionel Messi"
slug: "lionel-messi"
description: "The numbers alone don't explain it—eight Ballons d'Or, 46 team trophies, over 1,300 goal contributions—but they frame the span of what one left foot did across two decades. Argentina's long wait for a World Cup ended because he was still there in 2022."
tagline: "Argentine association football player (born 1987)"
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gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1987-06-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Lionel Andrés Messi made his debut for Barcelona at 17 in October 2004, and by the 2008–09 season had helped deliver the club's first treble, winning the first of four straight Ballons d'Or in the process. He became Barcelona's all-time top scorer, led them to a second treble in 2014–15, and left in August 2021 with 34 trophies after financial collapse forced the exit. For Argentina, the path was harder: three straight final losses between 2014 and 2016, a brief retirement, then the 2021 Copa América that broke a 28-year drought. The 2022 World Cup—his fifth attempt—delivered the title the country hadn't held since 1986. He joined Inter Miami in July 2023, won back-to-back MVPs, and led them to their first MLS Cup in 2025, the same year he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom and was named the all-time best by the IFFHS.