Lionel Messi

 Lionel Andrés Messi, otherwise called Leo Messi, is an Argentine expert footballer who plays as a forward for Ligue 1 club Paris Saint-Germain and chiefs the Argentina public group. Frequently thought to be the best player on the planet and generally viewed as probably the best player ever, Messi has won a record six Ballon d'Or awards,[note 2] a record six European Golden Shoes, and in 2020 was named to the Ballon d'Or Dream Team. Until leaving the club in 2021, he had spent his whole expert profession with Barcelona, where he won a club-record 35 prizes, including ten La Liga titles, seven Copa del Rey titles and four UEFA Champions Leagues. A productive goalscorer and inventive playmaker, Messi holds the records for most objectives in La Liga (474), a La Liga and European association season (50), most full go-arounds in La Liga (36) and the UEFA Champions League (8), and most aids La Liga (192), a La Liga season (21) and the Copa América (17). He likewise holds the record for most worldwide objectives by a South American male (80). Messi has scored more than 750 senior vocation objectives for club and country, and has the most objectives by a player for a solitary club. 

Brought up in focal Argentina, Messi moved to Spain to join Barcelona at age 13, for whom he made his cutthroat introduction matured 17 in October 2004. He laid down a good foundation for himself as an indispensable player for the club inside the following three years, and in his first continuous season in 2008–09 he assisted Barcelona with accomplishing the primary high pitch in Spanish football; that year, matured 22, Messi won his first Ballon d'Or. Three effective seasons followed, with Messi winning four continuous Ballons d'Or, making him the main player to win the honor multiple times and in a row.[10] During the 2011–12 season, he set the La Liga and European records for most objectives scored in a solitary season, while laying down a good foundation for himself as Barcelona's record-breaking top scorer. The accompanying two seasons, Messi completed second for the Ballon d'Or behind Cristiano Ronaldo (his apparent profession rival), prior to recapturing his best structure during the 2014–15 mission, turning into the unequaled top scorer in La Liga and driving Barcelona to a memorable second high pitch, after which he was granted a fifth Ballon d'Or in 2015. Messi accepted captaincy of Barcelona in 2018, and in 2019 he won a record 6th Ballon d'Or. 

An Argentine worldwide, Messi is the two his country's most noteworthy appearance-producer and their unequaled driving goalscorer. At youth level, he won the 2005 FIFA World Youth Championship, completing the competition with both the Golden Ball and Golden Shoe, and an Olympic gold decoration at the 2008 Summer Olympics. His style of play as a humble, left-footed dribbler drew examinations with his comrade Diego Maradona, who portrayed Messi as his replacement. After his senior presentation in August 2005, Messi turned into the most youthful Argentine to play and score in a FIFA World Cup in 2006, and arrived at the last of the 2007 Copa América, where he was named youthful player of the competition. As the crew's commander from August 2011, he drove Argentina to three continuous finals: the 2014 FIFA World Cup, for which he won the Golden Ball, and the 2015 and 2016 Copa América, winning the Golden Ball in the 2015 version. In the wake of reporting his worldwide retirement in 2016, he turned around his choice and drove his country to capability for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, a third-place finish at the 2019 Copa América, and won the 2021 Copa América, while winning the Golden Ball and Golden Boot grant for the last mentioned. 

Messi has supported active apparel organization Adidas beginning around 2006. As per France Football, he was the world's most generously compensated footballer for a considerable length of time out of six somewhere in the range of 2009 and 2014, and was positioned the world's most generously compensated competitor by Forbes in 2019. Messi was among Time's 100 most powerful individuals on the planet in 2011 and 2012. In February 2020, he was granted the Laureus World Sportsman of the Year, in this way turning into the main footballer and the principal group activity competitor to win the honor. Soon thereafter, Messi turned into the subsequent footballer (and second group activity competitor) to outperform $1 billion in vocation profit.