He showed an enormous aptitude for football and was in the youth teams for Newell's Old Boys, his local team. Faced with mounting medical expenses to treat a growth hormone condition, Messi's family accepted an offer to move the 13-year-old prodigy to FC Barcelona, who would pay for ...
Last spring, Messi finished the 2022–23 season in France. He played for Paris Saint-Germain. As his contract with that team neared its end, fans wondered where he’d go next. Would he return to Barcelona? That team signed him when he was a 13-year-old soccerphenom. Or would he join...
Messi's scoring accelerated at such a rate that he overtook Cesar Rodriguez -- whose 232-goal record had stood since the 1950s -- as Barcelona's top scorer on March 21, 2012. Not bad for a 24-year-old. Messi's strike rate peaked that year, too: He tallied an unprecedented 50 le...
The 34-year-old inked a two-year contract with the French club. The move saw him reunite with former teammate Neymar as well as the talented Kylian Mbappé. Messi made his debut for the club on August 29, 2021, and scored his first goal that September. PSG won two Ligue 1 titles ...
"This is thanks to the hard work and effort I have put in, and above all to my teammates. I have the best players in the world at their positions playing beside me." The 31-year-old Messi is Barcelona's all-time leading scorer. The club credits him with 572 goals in 65...
This is the most pivotal factor for Messi, his family and why they chose to come to MLS, but most importantly, Miami. After leaving Argentina as a 13-year-old, Messi wanted to feel closer to home, and he wanted to be happy again after a difficult period in Paris. Now in So...
The furor came after the 36-year-old Messi came on as a substitute six minutes from the end of Miami's previous match in Saudi Arabia last Thursday. "I played the minutes that I did to see how I felt," he explai...
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Messi made his debut as a 16-year-old on October 16, 2004 when he was a second half substitute in a 1-0 win away to Espanyol and since then he has had a couple of coaches at the club - Frank Rijkaard, Pep Guardiola, Tito Vilanova, Tata Martino, Jordi Roura and current boss Ernest...
SpainPosition:Attack - Right WingerFoot:leftPlayer agent:RelativesCurrent club:Inter Miami CFJoined:Jul 15, 2023Contract expires:Dec 31, 2025Outfitter:adidasSocial-Media: Youth clubs Grandoli FC (1992-1995), Newell's Old Boys (1995-2000)