Raised by working class parents in Argentina, Lionel Messi was discovered at age 5 playing for a small neighborhood team by Barcelona FC scouts. He left his boyhood club Newell's Old Boys to move to Europe, where he was hailed as the successor to Diego Maradona. Messi has dual Argentine and Spanish citizenship and won the FIFA Ballon d'Or in January, beating teammates Xavi Hernandez and Cristiano Ronaldo. Off the pitch, his foundation supports low-income children and he serves as an international ambassador for UNICEF.
Raised by working class parents in Argentina, Lionel Messi was discovered at age 5 playing for a small neighborhood team by Barcelona FC scouts. He left his boyhood club Newell's Old Boys to move to Europe, where he was hailed as the successor to Diego Maradona. Messi has dual Argentine and Spanish citizenship and won the FIFA Ballon d'Or in January, beating teammates Xavi Hernandez and Cristiano Ronaldo. Off the pitch, his foundation supports low-income children and he serves as an international ambassador for UNICEF.
Raised by working class parents in Argentina, Lionel Messi was discovered at age 5 playing for a small neighborhood team by Barcelona FC scouts. He left his boyhood club Newell's Old Boys to move to Europe, where he was hailed as the successor to Diego Maradona. Messi has dual Argentine and Spanish citizenship and won the FIFA Ballon d'Or in January, beating teammates Xavi Hernandez and Cristiano Ronaldo. Off the pitch, his foundation supports low-income children and he serves as an international ambassador for UNICEF.
Raised by working class parents in Argentina, Lionel Messi was discovered at age 5 playing for a small neighborhood team by Barcelona FC scouts. He left his boyhood club Newell's Old Boys to move to Europe, where he was hailed as the successor to Diego Maradona. Messi has dual Argentine and Spanish citizenship and won the FIFA Ballon d'Or in January, beating teammates Xavi Hernandez and Cristiano Ronaldo. Off the pitch, his foundation supports low-income children and he serves as an international ambassador for UNICEF.
Raised in a humble family, he is the son of Jorge Horacio
Messi, a factory worker, and Celia María Cuccittini, a
part-time cleaner. He has two brothers and one sister. At the age of five he started at Grandoli, a small team from his neighborhood that his father Leo Messi trained was discovered by Futbol Club Barcelona. He left Rosario's Club Atlético Newells Old Boys to move to Europe Compared to Diego Armando Maradona, who declared him his successor. In addition to Argentine nationality, he also has Spanish. On January, he received the FIFA Ballon d'Or, in a delivery cere, after beating his teammate Xavi Hernández and Real Madrid striker Cristiano Ronaldo in the vote. . It has its own foundation in charge of supporting low-income children to fulfill their dreams; He is also an international ambassador for UNICEF. One of his favorite hobbies is playing with PlaStation. Above all, he likes soccer video games and it seems that he is almost invincible, according to his teammates.