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Lionel Messi (født 24. juni 1987) er en argentinsk fodboldspiller, der spiller for FC Barcelona og Argentinas fodboldlandshold.
Han startede i sin fars klub Grandoli, som 5-årig og var kun 13 år da han blev optaget FC Barcelonas fodboldskole La Masia. 1. maj 2005 blev han den yngste målscorer for Barcelona nogensinde.[2] Da Messi var barn blev han diagnosticeret med væksthormon-mangel, så han ikke kunne vokse.[3] Lægerne mente at han aldrig blev fodboldspiller eftersom hans familie ikke havde penge til den dyre medicin.[4]
Messi har (pr. juni 2010) spillet 44 kampe og scoret 13 mål for det argentinske landshold og blev blandt andet udtaget til landets trup til VM i 2006. Som spiller i FC Barcelona har han været med til at vinde det spanske mesterskab og Champions League, han har pt scoret 4 mål i 6 kampe i denne sæson.
I 2007 blev han nomineret til FIFA World Player of the Year sammen med Cristiano Ronaldo og Kaká, men måtte tage til takke med en 2. plads, slået af Kaká.[5] Ved 2008-afstemningen blev han ligeledes nr. 2.[6] Han blev nomineret til FIFA World Player of the Year igen i 2009 og denne gang vandt han. I 2009 vandt han også France Footballs Ballon d'Or. I 2010 var han nomineret til Fifa Ballon d'Or sammen med sine holdkammeraterIniesta og Xavi, han endte med dog at vinde for andet år i træk.
Han er blevet sammelignet med legenden Diego Maradona, der selv har udtalt at Messi er den spiller der ligner ham mest rent fodboldmæssigt. Nu skal i høre om Diego Maradona.
Diego Armando Maradona Franco (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈdjeɣo maɾaˈðona]; born 30 October 1960) is a retired Argentine footballplayer, and current manager of Al Wasl FC in Dubai. Many experts, football critics, former and current players consider Maradona the greatest football player of all time.[1][2][3][4] He won FIFA Player of the Century award which was to be decided by votes on their official website, their official magazine and a grand jury.
He is the only player in football history who set world-record contract fees twice. The first, when he was transferred to Barcelona for a then world record £5m and the second, when he was transferred to Napoli for another record fee £6.9m. Over the course of his professional club career Maradona played for Argentinos Juniors, Boca Juniors, Barcelona, Napoli, Sevilla and Newell's Old Boys. In his international career, playing for Argentina, he earned 91 caps and scored 34 goals.
He played in four FIFA World Cup tournaments, including the 1986 tournament, where he captained Argentina and led them to theirvictory over West Germany in the final, winning the Golden Ball award as the tournament's best player. In that same tournament's quarterfinal round, he scored both goals in a 2–1 victory over England that entered football history, though for two different reasons. The first goal was via an unpenalized handball known as the "Hand of God", while the second goal followed a 60 m (66 yd) dribble past five England players, voted "The Goal of the Century" by FIFA.com voters in 2002.[5]
Maradona is considered one of the sport's most controversial and newsworthy figures. He was suspended from football for 15 months in 1991 after failing a drug test, for cocaine, in Italy, and he was sent home from the 1994 World Cup in the USA after testing positive forephedrine. After retiring from playing on his 37th birthday in 1997,[6] he gained weight, suffered ill health and the effects of cocaine use. In 2005, a stomach stapling operation helped control his weight gain, and he overcame his cocaine addiction. His outspoken manners have sometimes put him at odds with journalists and sport executives. Although he had little managerial experience, he became head coach of the Argentina national team in November 2008, and held the job for eighteen months, until his contract expired after the 2010 World Cup.
