Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro, more commonly known as Cristiano Ronaldo is a Portuguese international footballer born in Funchal February 5, 1985. He currently plays as a striker for Real Madrid.
Born into a poor family, Cristiano Ronaldo joined his first football club to his 10 years at FC Andorinha in 1995. He then joined the club CD Nacional and SC Portugal. Sporting integrates it into the occupational group and was noticed by Manchester United, the club he joined in 2003. With Manchester, he won the English league and the Champions League. It is crowned Golden Ball in 2008 and finished second at the 2007 and 2009 and is also elected, 12 January 2009, the best FIFA footballer of the year 2008 and remains second in 2009 behind Argentina's Lionel Messi .
He is also the most expensive player in football history with a transfer of 94 million negotiated between Manchester United and Real Madrid. His qualities as a technician, his many strokes of genius, and its top speed (racing 33.6 km / h, making it the fastest player in the world according to a German study published in 2009) led to many observers to consider him one of the best players in the world [5].
A statue was raised by the representative in Madrid [6], not to the Santiago Bernabeu stadium but on the plaza Ramales of the Spanish capital. This sculpture gray over ten meters high the Portuguese player was erected by Nike, the sponsor of the star of the club merengue.
Born into a poor family madéroise, Aveiro Cristiano is the son of Maria Dolores dos Santos Aveiro and José Dinis Aveiro. He was born February 5, 1985 in Santo António, Funchal municipality on the island of Madeira [7]. He is the father of a baby boy born June 17, 2010, Cristiano Junior, whose identity remains unknown to the mother [8]. He has an older brother (Hugo) and two older sisters (Lilian Elma and Catia). His middle name, Ronaldo, was given by his father as his favorite actor (and former President) Ronald Reagan was
Cristiano Ronaldo started the game at the age of 10 years in the club where his father worked at that time, FC Andorinha. For the 1995-1996 season, he joined the Clube Desportivo Nacional, one of the best clubs in the archipelago. Cristiano participates in only one season at this club because it is quickly engaged by the Sporting Club de Portugal, following the transfer, he left the island of Madeira and settled in 1996 in the Portuguese capital, Lisbon when he is older than 11 years [7].
Sporting Clube de Portugal SCP SelecçãoAu and he played in all age groups during the first five seasons and is frequently upgraded. He decided to abandon his studies to devote himself entirely to his football career, he is spotted by the Romanian coach Laszlo Boloni, Team A SCP when he was 16. During his match with Team A SCP, 29 September 2002, he scored two goals against SC Braga in a match of Superliga [7]. He began his international career with the Selecção in 2003, during a match against Kazakhstan. His father died September 6, 2005, following a hepatitis and kidney problems
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maradona biographie
Diego Armando Maradona, born October 30, 1960 (1960-10-30) (age 50) in Lanús (Buenos Aires province), is a former Argentine footballer became coach. He moved to the position of attacking midfielder in the jersey number 10.
Nicknamed El Pibe de Oro ("The golden boy"), Pelusa, El Diez, Dieguito, or The Master, it is considered one of the greatest players in football history [2].
Player prodigy of the 1980s and 1990s, winning the World Cup Soccer 1986, he was also one of the most controversial sport and society because of his unsavory relationships at that time, two controls positive in 1991 in Italy and in 1994 during the American world and his addiction to cocaine, which greatly disrupted his playing career.
October 28, 2008, he was named coach of the Argentina national team. After the 2010 World Cup in which Argentina tilts heavily against Germany in the quarterfinals (0-4), his contract as coach was not renewed.
Born in Lanús, Diego Maradona was the fourth child and first son of a poor family originating from the Argentine province of Corrientes. It also has two brothers younger than him (Hugo and Eduardo who will also become footballers). At 11, he was noticed by a recruiter, Francis Cornejo, who joined the team of Cebollitas (small onions), the junior team of the club Argentinos Juniors. Very handy with a ball, he entertains the audience with his juggling half-time matches in the first division. Despite his young age he is already attracting the media by his talent and amazing crowds. The newspapers are going to see the phenomenon as well as television. Thus, at 12, he told a TV interviewer came: "I have two dreams, playing in a World Cup, and won with Argentina."
Ten days before her sixteenth birthday, he made his professional debut with the team of Argentinos Juniors. He quickly became the leader of the team, making Argentinos Juniors, a club under the table, one of the leading lights of the championship. It will not win any title, however, with his first team, scoring 115 goals still in 166 matches.
His talent is such that it honors its first national team selection by February 27, 1977, at 16, for a match against Hungary. Cesar Luis Menotti, the coach, do not argue, however, retain the World Cup Soccer 1978, considering it too young. But the coach will catch up one year later by naming him captain in charge of Argentina to win the Junior World Cup hopes. The trophy is acquired in the final against the USSR, beaten 3-1. Maradona is voted best player of the tournament and won the same year the Golden Ball Argentina.
In 1981, the Boca Juniors team spends a fortune to remove the prodigy Argentinos. Maradona only play two seasons for the blue and gold of Buenos Aires, but they were surely among the most significant of his career. He won the championship course, but also humiliates the rival legendary Boca, River Plate, scoring two goals in the victory, and being heavily involved in the third. During this season, he scored 28 goals in 40 games.
Nicknamed El Pibe de Oro ("The golden boy"), Pelusa, El Diez, Dieguito, or The Master, it is considered one of the greatest players in football history [2].
Player prodigy of the 1980s and 1990s, winning the World Cup Soccer 1986, he was also one of the most controversial sport and society because of his unsavory relationships at that time, two controls positive in 1991 in Italy and in 1994 during the American world and his addiction to cocaine, which greatly disrupted his playing career.
October 28, 2008, he was named coach of the Argentina national team. After the 2010 World Cup in which Argentina tilts heavily against Germany in the quarterfinals (0-4), his contract as coach was not renewed.
Born in Lanús, Diego Maradona was the fourth child and first son of a poor family originating from the Argentine province of Corrientes. It also has two brothers younger than him (Hugo and Eduardo who will also become footballers). At 11, he was noticed by a recruiter, Francis Cornejo, who joined the team of Cebollitas (small onions), the junior team of the club Argentinos Juniors. Very handy with a ball, he entertains the audience with his juggling half-time matches in the first division. Despite his young age he is already attracting the media by his talent and amazing crowds. The newspapers are going to see the phenomenon as well as television. Thus, at 12, he told a TV interviewer came: "I have two dreams, playing in a World Cup, and won with Argentina."
Ten days before her sixteenth birthday, he made his professional debut with the team of Argentinos Juniors. He quickly became the leader of the team, making Argentinos Juniors, a club under the table, one of the leading lights of the championship. It will not win any title, however, with his first team, scoring 115 goals still in 166 matches.
His talent is such that it honors its first national team selection by February 27, 1977, at 16, for a match against Hungary. Cesar Luis Menotti, the coach, do not argue, however, retain the World Cup Soccer 1978, considering it too young. But the coach will catch up one year later by naming him captain in charge of Argentina to win the Junior World Cup hopes. The trophy is acquired in the final against the USSR, beaten 3-1. Maradona is voted best player of the tournament and won the same year the Golden Ball Argentina.
In 1981, the Boca Juniors team spends a fortune to remove the prodigy Argentinos. Maradona only play two seasons for the blue and gold of Buenos Aires, but they were surely among the most significant of his career. He won the championship course, but also humiliates the rival legendary Boca, River Plate, scoring two goals in the victory, and being heavily involved in the third. During this season, he scored 28 goals in 40 games.
zidane biographie
Zinedine Yazid Zidane, born June 23, 1972 in Marseille, often nicknamed Zizou, is a French international footballer, born of an Algerian family.
He is cited among the greatest football players of all time and is listed among the 125 world's best players still alive in 2004 in a joint filing of Pele and the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA). Favorite sport of the French in 2006 [1], it is classified three times World Player of the Year by FIFA in 1998, 2000 and 2003 [2] and Golden Ball in 1998. He was twice placed second best French player of all time by France Football. In 2004 he was elected European Footballer of the half-century's ahead of UEFA and legends such as Cruyff, Beckenbauer or Platini.
Playing an attacking midfielder, he was the playmaker of prestigious European clubs such as Juventus and Real Madrid, with whom he has won numerous national and international titles.
Capped 108 times with the France team, Zinedine Zidane is illustrated primarily in international victory at the 1998 World Cup where he scored two headed goals in the final against Brazil won 3-0 and the European Championships in 2000 also won.
Famous number 10 of the Blues, he put an end to his career following the 2006 World Cup, during which he distinguished himself and received the title of best player in the world [3]. On July 9, 2006, he played his last game at the final of the World Cup between Italy and France. He illustrates it with ambivalence by entering his 31st goal in a French jersey Destination successful, but also by his red card for expulsion on a whim in the chest of Marco Materazzi
The parents of Zinedine are from Kabylia in the wilaya of Bejaia in Algeria, his father Smail Zidane from the town of Ath Slimane Aguemoun. Remarks in which he mentions his identity is collected by the newspaper The Observer [7].
Zinedine Zidane signed its first license in 1982 at a club near his home area: the U.S. Saint-Henri [8] and then passes Septèmes SW, Provence [9], with whom he plays in the category up chicks 'at the age of fourteen. In 1986 he was selected in the first year for the junior championship league. At year end, it is called the Regional Centre for Popular Education and Sport (CREPS) Aix-en-Provence for a three-day course. There he was noticed and recruited by the AS Cannes through the recruiter Varraud Jean, himself a former ASSE's [10].
After a one-week course he joined in 1987 at the age of fifteen, the training center at Cannes under the command of Guy Lacombe [11]. It is placed in a foster home, the Elineau [12]. At 16, Jean Fernandez integrates the professional workforce.
It begins in First Division May 20, 1989, against FC Nantes team Marcel Desailly and Didier Deschamps at the time, the Beaujoire. It has not yet 17. On February 8, 1991, he scored his first goal in the first division, always against FC Nantes and receives a red Clio as he has promised the club president Alain Pedretti, it scores a goal. The club qualified for the UEFA Cup and Zidane discovers Europe. The following year the club was eliminated from the UEFA Cup and down in D2. Zidane then joined Bordeaux in the summer of 1992.
He is cited among the greatest football players of all time and is listed among the 125 world's best players still alive in 2004 in a joint filing of Pele and the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA). Favorite sport of the French in 2006 [1], it is classified three times World Player of the Year by FIFA in 1998, 2000 and 2003 [2] and Golden Ball in 1998. He was twice placed second best French player of all time by France Football. In 2004 he was elected European Footballer of the half-century's ahead of UEFA and legends such as Cruyff, Beckenbauer or Platini.
Playing an attacking midfielder, he was the playmaker of prestigious European clubs such as Juventus and Real Madrid, with whom he has won numerous national and international titles.
Capped 108 times with the France team, Zinedine Zidane is illustrated primarily in international victory at the 1998 World Cup where he scored two headed goals in the final against Brazil won 3-0 and the European Championships in 2000 also won.
Famous number 10 of the Blues, he put an end to his career following the 2006 World Cup, during which he distinguished himself and received the title of best player in the world [3]. On July 9, 2006, he played his last game at the final of the World Cup between Italy and France. He illustrates it with ambivalence by entering his 31st goal in a French jersey Destination successful, but also by his red card for expulsion on a whim in the chest of Marco Materazzi
The parents of Zinedine are from Kabylia in the wilaya of Bejaia in Algeria, his father Smail Zidane from the town of Ath Slimane Aguemoun. Remarks in which he mentions his identity is collected by the newspaper The Observer [7].
Zinedine Zidane signed its first license in 1982 at a club near his home area: the U.S. Saint-Henri [8] and then passes Septèmes SW, Provence [9], with whom he plays in the category up chicks 'at the age of fourteen. In 1986 he was selected in the first year for the junior championship league. At year end, it is called the Regional Centre for Popular Education and Sport (CREPS) Aix-en-Provence for a three-day course. There he was noticed and recruited by the AS Cannes through the recruiter Varraud Jean, himself a former ASSE's [10].
After a one-week course he joined in 1987 at the age of fifteen, the training center at Cannes under the command of Guy Lacombe [11]. It is placed in a foster home, the Elineau [12]. At 16, Jean Fernandez integrates the professional workforce.
It begins in First Division May 20, 1989, against FC Nantes team Marcel Desailly and Didier Deschamps at the time, the Beaujoire. It has not yet 17. On February 8, 1991, he scored his first goal in the first division, always against FC Nantes and receives a red Clio as he has promised the club president Alain Pedretti, it scores a goal. The club qualified for the UEFA Cup and Zidane discovers Europe. The following year the club was eliminated from the UEFA Cup and down in D2. Zidane then joined Bordeaux in the summer of 1992.
raul biographie
Raúl González Blanco, Raúl said, is a Spanish international footballer born June 27, 1977 in Madrid, who plays as a striker for German club Schalke 04.
Considered the best Spanish player and one of the best players in football history, Raul is best known as the iconic number 7 and captain of Real Madrid that he will leave in 2010 after sixteen years at the club . He holds the record for most games played (741) and goals scored for "merengue" (323). It is also the top scorer of all time in the Champions League with 71 goals, competition he won three times and the top scorer in the Spanish league activity.
With 44 goals, he spent eight years as top scorer in the history of the Spanish before David Villa will beat his record March 25, 2011 against the Czech Republic.
It is the only player to have won three times as the best striker of the year by UEFA (1999/2000, 2000/2001, 2001/2002).
In private life, Raúl is married to former model Mamen Sanz from Spain June 30, 1999, and is the father of four boys and a girl: Jorge, Hugo, Hector Mateo and Maria.
Childhood and Beginnings Raul Gonzalez grew up in a modest family in Colonia Marconi, San Cristobal de Los Angeles, a poor neighborhood of Madrid. Here he began playing football in 1988. A few years later, his father enrolled in the youth teams of Atlético Madrid, his family being staunch supporters of the club. In his first season, the position of left winger, he scored 65 goals and won the championship of Spain minimal. Cadets spent the following year he was champion again. Despite this, the club president, Jesus Gil y Gil was forced to dissolve all categories young because of serious economic concerns. There, in 1992, as Raul joined Real Madrid, neighbor and biggest rival Atletico. In his first season with the Cadets, he scored 71 goals in 33 games. It passes quickly in the junior B (- 18) and then Junior A. In 1994 he joined Real Madrid and starts against the C team in Corralejo Fuerteventura with 5 goals! With exceptional debut, 16 goals in seven games, he was summoned by the Spanish under 18.
Considered the best Spanish player and one of the best players in football history, Raul is best known as the iconic number 7 and captain of Real Madrid that he will leave in 2010 after sixteen years at the club . He holds the record for most games played (741) and goals scored for "merengue" (323). It is also the top scorer of all time in the Champions League with 71 goals, competition he won three times and the top scorer in the Spanish league activity.
With 44 goals, he spent eight years as top scorer in the history of the Spanish before David Villa will beat his record March 25, 2011 against the Czech Republic.
It is the only player to have won three times as the best striker of the year by UEFA (1999/2000, 2000/2001, 2001/2002).
In private life, Raúl is married to former model Mamen Sanz from Spain June 30, 1999, and is the father of four boys and a girl: Jorge, Hugo, Hector Mateo and Maria.
Childhood and Beginnings Raul Gonzalez grew up in a modest family in Colonia Marconi, San Cristobal de Los Angeles, a poor neighborhood of Madrid. Here he began playing football in 1988. A few years later, his father enrolled in the youth teams of Atlético Madrid, his family being staunch supporters of the club. In his first season, the position of left winger, he scored 65 goals and won the championship of Spain minimal. Cadets spent the following year he was champion again. Despite this, the club president, Jesus Gil y Gil was forced to dissolve all categories young because of serious economic concerns. There, in 1992, as Raul joined Real Madrid, neighbor and biggest rival Atletico. In his first season with the Cadets, he scored 71 goals in 33 games. It passes quickly in the junior B (- 18) and then Junior A. In 1994 he joined Real Madrid and starts against the C team in Corralejo Fuerteventura with 5 goals! With exceptional debut, 16 goals in seven games, he was summoned by the Spanish under 18.
ronaldinho biographie
Ronaldo de Assis Moreira (born March 21, 1980 in Porto Alegre, capital of the State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil), more commonly known by the nickname Ronaldinho Gaúcho Ronaldinho or simply [3], is a football player operating at Flamengo and the Brazilian team for the position of attacking midfielder
Considered an atypical player, Ronaldinho was actually imposed in Europe as a winger on the left, with his dazzling dribbling, his incredible ball control and field antics that have earned him win the Golden Ball in 2005 . He was adored by the socios of the FC Barcelona club, with whom he won the Champions League in 2006.
He has been named player of the decade in 2009 [4] for its outstanding performance achieved in the years 2000 to 2006.
According to a ranking published by U.S. magazine Forbes, Ronaldinho is the player who won the most money in 2006 with 23.5 million euros of revenue [5].
His youth [edit] Cadet of three children Antonio silva, Mahamadou silva, silva abdoulaye João Moreira Da Silva and Dona Miguelina, Ronaldo de Assis Moreira souley Aboud said "Ronaldinho" was born March 21, 1980 at the University Hospital of São Lucas [6] in Porto Alegre (RS), Brazil. He comes from a poor family whose father - who was in the 1970s a good attacking midfielder moving to local amateur club, Cruzeiro - worked as a welder and rounds his income by monitoring car parking of Gremio Porto Alegre [7]. Ronaldinho's father takes him from an early age out of the training and make him free kicks, corners, penalties and all that can change his son. In 1988, while "Ronnie" was only 8 years old, his father dies and Roberto Assis, the eldest of the family, became the model for Ronaldinho, as he said later: "My brother is a true hero me. This is an example, whether as a father, brother or footballer "[8].
Roberto Assis is a great hope for his club and that's Ronaldinho grew up in the world of football in the heart of Vila Nova, and began to follow in the footsteps of his brother. Shared between the school and sports, Ronaldinho among college Alberto Torres Vila Nova to 7 years before moving with his family to enter college (football school) Langendonck [6] in Porto Alegre in 1986 [9 ]. His passion for the game is already compulsive. And when his friends are tired, he finds his dog yohann. An untiring training partner that dribble as well in the family garden and inside the house, surrounded by furniture. In 1991, aged 11, Ronaldinho joined Belo Horizonte for a tournament. In 1995, he knows his first call in the selection of young people from Grêmio. The school is then put in brackets.
Considered an atypical player, Ronaldinho was actually imposed in Europe as a winger on the left, with his dazzling dribbling, his incredible ball control and field antics that have earned him win the Golden Ball in 2005 . He was adored by the socios of the FC Barcelona club, with whom he won the Champions League in 2006.
He has been named player of the decade in 2009 [4] for its outstanding performance achieved in the years 2000 to 2006.
According to a ranking published by U.S. magazine Forbes, Ronaldinho is the player who won the most money in 2006 with 23.5 million euros of revenue [5].
His youth [edit] Cadet of three children Antonio silva, Mahamadou silva, silva abdoulaye João Moreira Da Silva and Dona Miguelina, Ronaldo de Assis Moreira souley Aboud said "Ronaldinho" was born March 21, 1980 at the University Hospital of São Lucas [6] in Porto Alegre (RS), Brazil. He comes from a poor family whose father - who was in the 1970s a good attacking midfielder moving to local amateur club, Cruzeiro - worked as a welder and rounds his income by monitoring car parking of Gremio Porto Alegre [7]. Ronaldinho's father takes him from an early age out of the training and make him free kicks, corners, penalties and all that can change his son. In 1988, while "Ronnie" was only 8 years old, his father dies and Roberto Assis, the eldest of the family, became the model for Ronaldinho, as he said later: "My brother is a true hero me. This is an example, whether as a father, brother or footballer "[8].
Roberto Assis is a great hope for his club and that's Ronaldinho grew up in the world of football in the heart of Vila Nova, and began to follow in the footsteps of his brother. Shared between the school and sports, Ronaldinho among college Alberto Torres Vila Nova to 7 years before moving with his family to enter college (football school) Langendonck [6] in Porto Alegre in 1986 [9 ]. His passion for the game is already compulsive. And when his friends are tired, he finds his dog yohann. An untiring training partner that dribble as well in the family garden and inside the house, surrounded by furniture. In 1991, aged 11, Ronaldinho joined Belo Horizonte for a tournament. In 1995, he knows his first call in the selection of young people from Grêmio. The school is then put in brackets.
messi bioghraphie
Lionel Andrés Messi, Leo Messi often called, was born June 24, 1987 in Rosario, Argentina, is an Argentine footballer, also having Spanish nationality. Gaucher, he moves with his number 10 to the position of attacking midfielder for FC Barcelona and the Argentine national team.
In 2009, Messi won an unprecedented six times in the history of football with FC Barcelona. His extraordinary year is rewarded by all the major individual awards. He was elected largely best player in the Spanish league, club best player by UEFA, World Player of the FIFA and finally won the Golden Ball with a record number of votes.
In 2010, he became Pichichi and European Golden Boot for the first time in his career thanks to his 34 goals in La Liga. In that season scoring a total of 47 goals in all competitions, Messi equal the record for goals in a season Ronaldo FC Barcelona. At the end of the year, he won a second straight gold ball all competitions
In 2011, he became the third consecutive top scorer in the Champions League race he won at Wembley. He becomes best scorer, tied with Ruud Van Nistelrooy, in an edition of League Champions.De more Messi beats the record of goals from Ronaldo in a season with FC Barcelona in a total of 53 goals in all competitions. Messi won the league for the fifth time in his career.
At only 23, Messi has already won 15 major titles: 3 Champions League (he was injured for the final of 2006), five Spanish championships, four Super Cups in Spain, a Spanish Cup, a Super d Europe and a World Cup with FC Barcelona club, club in which he played since the age of thirteen and for which he is already the third best scorer. With the selection of Argentina, he won the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.
Youth: a fate orLionel Andres Messi was born in Rosario, Santa Fe His parents are Jorge Horacio Messi and Maria Celia Cuccittini. His family is originally from the Italian city of Ancona, where his ancestor, Angelo Messi, emigrated to Argentina in 1883 [4].
At the age of five years, dragged through the streets of his city with his childhood friend, Lucas Leroy. His grandmother took him take tests in the local club Grandoli, coached by his father, he surpasses the opponents 12. His extraordinary talent propelled him quickly into the club Newell's Old Boys.
At age 10, when he is only 1.11 meters, Diego Schwarzstein detects a hormonal disease, bones do not develop at the right speed impair normal growth [5]. In fact, a potential career is in jeopardy. "Without growth hormone, Lionel would have been at best 1.50 meters in adulthood," according to his father, Jorge, in L'Equipe Magazine. At the time, no club wants Argentine undertake to pay his salary because of the economic crisis that began to plague the country. Messi's family can not afford the treatment cost 900 euros a month which is to inject 75 micrograms of Levothyroxine for thirty months [5]. Several clubs are interested in Argentine Riverplate which the player but do not take the risk to support financial processing.
Jorge's father, Lionel, went to Barcelona where he has to test at Barcelona in July 2000. During a final visit after a month of test, Carles Rexach (the head of the training center), despite the reservations of the club, makes the decision that will change the future, and Messi is Messi's father to sign on a paper towel, a contract "symbolic" of support for Leo by FC Barcelona.
After this successful trial, the Masia, the training center of Barcelona, supports education and medical care of the Argentine moved with his family in Catalonia. Messi is grateful forever to FC Barcelona for allowing him to realize his dream. He said many times that the club was his family and he wants to play his entire career before playing may be his last year in the championship in Argentina.
In his second game with the Infantil B (the Barca youth team), he fractured his fibula and will be unavailable for three months. In 2001, a dispute with his former club Newell's Old Boys that removes land from February to June [ref. needed]. Messi continues his training very quickly and burns all stages of the youth teams. At only 16 years, he participated in his first game (unofficial) with the first team of FC Barcelona against Porto in 2003 on the occasion of the inauguration of the stadium in Porto.
In 2009, Messi won an unprecedented six times in the history of football with FC Barcelona. His extraordinary year is rewarded by all the major individual awards. He was elected largely best player in the Spanish league, club best player by UEFA, World Player of the FIFA and finally won the Golden Ball with a record number of votes.
In 2010, he became Pichichi and European Golden Boot for the first time in his career thanks to his 34 goals in La Liga. In that season scoring a total of 47 goals in all competitions, Messi equal the record for goals in a season Ronaldo FC Barcelona. At the end of the year, he won a second straight gold ball all competitions
In 2011, he became the third consecutive top scorer in the Champions League race he won at Wembley. He becomes best scorer, tied with Ruud Van Nistelrooy, in an edition of League Champions.De more Messi beats the record of goals from Ronaldo in a season with FC Barcelona in a total of 53 goals in all competitions. Messi won the league for the fifth time in his career.
At only 23, Messi has already won 15 major titles: 3 Champions League (he was injured for the final of 2006), five Spanish championships, four Super Cups in Spain, a Spanish Cup, a Super d Europe and a World Cup with FC Barcelona club, club in which he played since the age of thirteen and for which he is already the third best scorer. With the selection of Argentina, he won the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.
Youth: a fate orLionel Andres Messi was born in Rosario, Santa Fe His parents are Jorge Horacio Messi and Maria Celia Cuccittini. His family is originally from the Italian city of Ancona, where his ancestor, Angelo Messi, emigrated to Argentina in 1883 [4].
At the age of five years, dragged through the streets of his city with his childhood friend, Lucas Leroy. His grandmother took him take tests in the local club Grandoli, coached by his father, he surpasses the opponents 12. His extraordinary talent propelled him quickly into the club Newell's Old Boys.
At age 10, when he is only 1.11 meters, Diego Schwarzstein detects a hormonal disease, bones do not develop at the right speed impair normal growth [5]. In fact, a potential career is in jeopardy. "Without growth hormone, Lionel would have been at best 1.50 meters in adulthood," according to his father, Jorge, in L'Equipe Magazine. At the time, no club wants Argentine undertake to pay his salary because of the economic crisis that began to plague the country. Messi's family can not afford the treatment cost 900 euros a month which is to inject 75 micrograms of Levothyroxine for thirty months [5]. Several clubs are interested in Argentine Riverplate which the player but do not take the risk to support financial processing.
Jorge's father, Lionel, went to Barcelona where he has to test at Barcelona in July 2000. During a final visit after a month of test, Carles Rexach (the head of the training center), despite the reservations of the club, makes the decision that will change the future, and Messi is Messi's father to sign on a paper towel, a contract "symbolic" of support for Leo by FC Barcelona.
After this successful trial, the Masia, the training center of Barcelona, supports education and medical care of the Argentine moved with his family in Catalonia. Messi is grateful forever to FC Barcelona for allowing him to realize his dream. He said many times that the club was his family and he wants to play his entire career before playing may be his last year in the championship in Argentina.
In his second game with the Infantil B (the Barca youth team), he fractured his fibula and will be unavailable for three months. In 2001, a dispute with his former club Newell's Old Boys that removes land from February to June [ref. needed]. Messi continues his training very quickly and burns all stages of the youth teams. At only 16 years, he participated in his first game (unofficial) with the first team of FC Barcelona against Porto in 2003 on the occasion of the inauguration of the stadium in Porto.
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