Lionel Messi is a football player from Argentina who plays for FC Barcelona. He has won the Ballon D'Or, the annual award given to the best player in the world, 7 times and an Olympic gold medal winner in 2008. He was born in 1987 in Rosario, Argentina's third-biggest city. 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 his treatment. Messi has gone on to become one of the most decorated players in football history and has broken countless records for his club and his country.
Messi has scored over 750 senior career goals for club and country, and has the most goals by a player for a single club (672).
Lionel Messi (95 goals) is third in the all-time top international goal scorers’ list and the second-most prolific active goal scorer (currently playing) after Cristiano Ronaldo.
World cup 2022:
The 2022 World Cup is arguably Lionel Messi's best of the five he has contested so far, as he feels comfortable on and off the pitch.
Messi is also having his most productive year for Argentina in terms of his goal scoring output. This is his best calendar year in terms of goals for the Albiceleste, with Messi scoring 15 so far in 2022.
The Argentine also has three Player of the Match awards so far - against Mexico, Poland, and the Netherlands.
Messi now having 10 Player of the Match awards at World Cups in total.
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