At 17, Messi became the youngest player to ever score for Barcelona in the league (he's since been overtaken) when he netted the second goal in a 2-0 win over Albacete on May 1, 2005. In the 87th minute, coach Frank Rijkaard brought Messi off the bench for his ninth appearance. ...
Lionel Messi scores twice in FC Barcelona 4-0 winTIM BOOTH
MUNICH, Germany — Barcelona still can’t say for sure if Lionel Messi will start against Bayern Munich in the first leg of the Champions League semi-finals. Article content On the eve of the match, assistant coach Jordi Roura was as circumspect about Messi’s chances...
Inter Miami's Lionel Messi will not play in this week's MLS All-Star Game, Major League Soccer said on Monday, eight days after the Argentine superstar left the Copa America final with an ankle injury.
Online Auction: 30 November–14 December 2023 • 12:00 PM EST • New York “I dreamed of it so many times, I wanted it so much that I still can’t believe it.” When Lionel Messi lifted the World Cup in Qatar last December in front of over 1.5 billion people tuning in from ar...
19Robert Lewandowski (Dortmund, Bayern, Barcelona) 17Karim Benzema (Lyon, Real Madrid) 15Thomas Müller (Bayern) Which player has scored the most goals in a Champions League round of 16 game? Lionel Messi: Every Champions League goal
Lionel Messi could be on his way out of Barcelona - but which club would be best-placed to land the player everyone dreams of signing? Tuesday night's announcement that Messi had informed Barcelona he wanted to leave sent shockwaves through football and no ...
Latest transfer news: Lionel Messi has Barcelona dream as Liverpool target Brazilian right-back ©IMAGO The January transfer window is now little more than a distant memory in European football and as such clubs across the continent are already making plans for the...
132Lionel Messi (ARG, Barcelona, Paris) 113Robert Lewandowski (POL, Lech Poznań, Dortmund, Bayern, Barcelona) 92Karim Benzema (FRA, Lyon, Real Madrid) 77Raúl González (ESP, Real Madrid, Schalke) 70Filippo Inzaghi (ITA, Parma, Juventus, AC Milan) ...
In Barcelona, it is the same. Messi's first coach at Barcelona's youth academy, Xavier Llorens, says he knew right away that Messi was special because of the way the ball stuck to his foot when he ran -- almost as if it was connected to his shoelaces -- but also, he adds, "he...