Lionel Messi
Argentine association football player (born 1987) · Argentina · Footballers · also Spain · also Italy
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Something wrong?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.
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At age 13, Messi enrolled at Barcelona's youth academy, La Masia.
In 2004, Messi (pictured in 2005) began his 17-year professional career with FC Barcelona
Messi dribbling past Patrice Evra of Juventus during the 2015 UEFA Champions League final
Messi, wearing the captain's armband, against Real Valladolid in 2018
Messi (middle) with Paris Saint-Germain teammates Kylian Mbappé (left) and Neymar in 2021.
Messi with Inter Miami in 2025
Messi evades Brazil's Marcelo in the semi-final of the 2008 Summer Olympics.In their own words 10
, I knew that at some point God was going to give it to me and I don't know why, but I felt it was going to be like this. Once again he made me very happy.
I never set out to be the best player in history. I think I'm just another footballer. On the pitch we are all the same and when the game starts I always try to improve myself.
Barcelona gave me everything, they took a chance on me when nobody else would. I never have any desire to play for anybody else, I will be here for as long as they want me.
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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.
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