José Alejandro Cabrera Pérez

Grado: 7ª
2022

MESSI'S CAREER
Lionel Andrés Messi Cuccittini (Rosario, June 24,
1987), known as Leo Messi, is an Argentine
footballer who plays as a forward or midfielder.
Historical player of the Barcelona Football Club, to
whom he was linked for twenty years, since 2021 he
has been a member of the Paris Saint-Germain
squad of Ligue 1 in France. He is also international
with the Argentine national team, a team of which
he is captain.

Frequently considered the best player in the world

and one of the best of all time, he is the only
footballer in history who has won, among other
distinctions, the Ballon d'Or seven times, six FIFA
awards for the best player of the world and six
Golden Boots. In 2020, he became the first
footballer and the first Argentine to receive a
Laureus award, as well as being included in the
Ballon d'Or Dream Team.

With Barcelona he has won 35 titles, including ten

from La Liga, four from the UEFA Champions
League and seven from the Copa del Rey.

A prolific scorer, he holds, among others, the

records for the most goals in a season, 11 in a
calendar year (in 2012, with 86 goals, he entered the
Guinness World Records) and in the same club, in
addition to being the top scorer for La Liga, the
Spanish Super Cup, the European Super Cup and
the non-European player with the most goals in the
UEFA Champions League. He is also the top scorer
for Barcelona and the Argentine national team and
the footballer with the most assists, since records
are kept, in official matches.

Born and raised in the city of Rosario, at the age of

13 he settled in Spain, where Barcelona agreed to
pay for the treatment of the hormonal disease that
he had been diagnosed with as a child. After a rapid
progression through the Barcelona Youth Academy,
he made his official first-team debut in October
2004, aged seventeen. Despite being injury-prone
early in his career, as early as 2006 he established
himself as a pivotal player for the club. His first
uninterrupted campaign was the 2008-09 season, in
which Barcelona reached the first treble in Spanish
football.

In 2009, at the age of twenty-two, he won his first

Ballon d'Or and the FIFA World Player of the Year
award. Three successful seasons followed, in which
he won an unprecedented four Ballon d'Ors in a
row. His personal best campaign so far is the 2011-
12 season, in which he set the record for most goals
in a season, both in La Liga and in other European
competitions.