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22 years old.
U-20 FIFA World Cup winner [Argentina]
Olympic Gold Medalist [Argentina]
Scored within 10 minutes of his World Cup debut (and also had an assist)
Spanish League (3): 2004–05, 2005–06, 2008–09
Spanish Cup: (1) 2008–09
Spanish Supercup (3): 2005, 2006, 2009
UEFA Champions League (1): 2008–09[135]
UEFA Super Cup (1): 2009
FIFA Club World Cup (1): 2009

Individual Achievements
* FIFA U-20 World Cup Top Scorer: 2005
* FIFA U-20 World Cup Player of the Tournament: 2005
* Copa América Young Player of the Tournament: 2007
* U-21 European Footballer of the Year: 2007
* Player of the Year of Argentina: 2005, 2007, 2009
* FIFPro Special Young Player of the Year: 2006–2007, 2007–2008
* FIFPro World Young Player of the Year: 2005–2006, 2006–2007, 2007–2008
* World Soccer Young Player of the Year: 2005–2006, 2006–2007, 2007–2008
* Premio Don Balón (Best Foreign Player in La Liga): 2006–2007, 2008–2009
* EFE Trophy (Best Ibero-American Player in La Liga): 2006–2007, 2008–2009
* FIFPro World XI: 2006–2007, 2007–2008, 2008–2009
* UEFA Team of the Year: 2007–2008, 2008–2009
* FIFA Team of the Year: 2008, 2009
* UEFA Champions League Top Scorer: 2008–2009
* Trofeo Alfredo Di Stéfano: 2008–2009
* UEFA Club Forward of the Year: 2008–2009
* UEFA Club Footballer of the Year: 2008–2009
* LFP Best Player: 2008–2009
* LFP Best Striker: 2008–2009
* Onze d'Or: 2009
* Ballon d'Or: 2009
* World Soccer Player of the Year: 2009
* FIFA Club World Cup Golden Ball: 2009
* Toyota Award: 2009
* FIFA World Player of the Year: 2009
* FIFPro World Player of the Year: 2008–09

As of right now he's the leader for the Pichichi (most goals scored in La Liga), has the most assists in the league, and has completed the most dribbles in the league. He's the front runner for the fifa player of the year and his salary is over 35million euros a year (comparison, he makes more than Christiano Ronaldo and Kaka combined.)

Are you kidding me??? he's 22!!
One day I'm gonna tell my kids I had the joy of watching Lionel Messi.
I was too young to enjoy Maradona, his prime ended in 1994. And my parents weren't even born when Pele was playing.

is that mud on those shoes?

Talk about loving what you do...mann

I thought he was a football player.

Lmao. I wouldn't mind livin his life.

Too bad for him Netherlands is going to win World Cup this summer

actually, cristiano ronaldo makes less 3 millions than him -> 30 millions, so yeah.

Messi makes 33, just saw it yesterday on the news.

Plus, Cristiano Ronaldo is more mediatic than him -> more commercials and shit.


Plus, messi's awsome.

Plus, i'm hungry.

+1

Too bad for the Netherlands they'll defeat all the big teams and f*ck it up against a small team.

guys, i need to share my fears with you



...

i'm afraid Portugal will suck on this world cup


NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

i watch him play and don't have the same opinion as you, so i guess i can call your comment a subjective post xD

About messi, he's great, i like cristiano's speed and explosive attitude better tho, but hey, don't rage at me cause of that lol xD

Lets hope so

messi is rlly incredible !
well i kinda like Cristiano ronaldo but hes PLAY FOR MONEY
hes good in free kick ! he have more skills then messi
but messi got more speed

there is only one messi, the same way there is only one federer, one shaq, one tiger woods, and one lebron. Stay in school kids.

The truth has entered the facility

He's not human!!!11!!

8 goals in 3 matches, in 1 week. some people are already calling him the best player ever, i think that's a little bit exaggerated.
i would still prefer rooney over messi though, you have to consider to which teams messi has been doing his latest wonders. you can't really compare the teams over there in la liga with the bigger, stronger teams of the premier, that's why rooney (i think) has been doing better than messi.
having said that, i would still prefer ronaldo or ronaldinho when they were in their best shape over messi.
edit: and cristiano.. lol i mean real madrid overall, isn't a team, they're just a bunch of good players packed together playing with the same shirt, playing for individual glory. that's why cristiano's skills have been kind of darkened lately, it's the team that sucks, cristiano is a very skilled player despite that.

messi-fanboy flame shield activated

He's cristiano ronaldo, his own way xD

You know, i honestly donn't share the same opinion, he doesn't play for money, buttttttttttttttt


truth is, i'd love to see em play in the same team, would be awsome ^_^


@ Portugal's game


dude, that game was intense lol

I concur with the title.



In FM10 I have both in Man Utd. Rooney already scored something like 20-25 goals in mid season. I play Messi as AMR, instead. So he doesn't score that much. :/

I do prefer Messi over Ronaldo or the best Ronaldinho, though. I don't know exactly why, but he's got someting the other two lack of.

Ronaldinho is an old man right now !

did you guys just see the goal cristiano scored : D

and i agree that RM ... needs a good coach.

i recall mourinho!!

I wrote "the best Ronaldinho"..when he played in Barcelona (last two seasons excluded, though). He was sorta amazing back then.

@IceCrash: so you want an unpleasant coach for an already unpleasant team? Nice one, lol.

And FYI, if you read Italian news -which I doubt you do- Mourinho is one of the few coaches who actually work solely for money. He's defending Inter right now, but I'm pretty sure that if someone offered him more than he gains now -something like 14m per season- he could leave any moment.
He already proved this, as he said he wouldn't mind coaching RM -money, money, money- he told one middle team's president he's stupid and naive because he couldn't afford to pay him!
I could go on, but I think you understood I don't like him.

So..

ronaldinho was so amazing when he was in barca

and, i don't see any problem in wanting to have a great career, and erm, you might not like him, but he's DAMN good lol

i honestly love his style <- my opinionz0r tho


one coach i think is amazing too is ferguson, they say both of these are the best coaches on the world nowadays, wich i completly agree

yah he was great in 2004-2006 @.@



i hope not cuz if he left arsenal the team will
not be the same
and im sure hell get alot of arsenal players to RM

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his goal from the weekend. amazing really.
he is the best player atm but he needs to be consistently good for a long time to be best player ever imo. he also needs to perform in the WC since he isnt really this good with argentina. W/ ronaldo out of CL (and under-performing)i think its between rooney and messi to win the world player of the year/ballon d'or, and imo messi has been fantastic compared to rooney who has turned into a goal poacher type player.

Ronaldinho in 04/05/06 > Messi right now though, if dinho had been more consistent he coulda been the best player ever. this season he has been quite good for milan.


Edit: ^lolwut ferguson is at man utd not arsenal lol.. and theres no way he's leaving, why would he leave the best club in the world to join the joke of a club madrid.

yeah ferg's goin nowhere


i agree that ronaldinho used to be better than messi right now

you know, tbh, i think messi's a little better than ronaldo atm, but that doesn't mean ronaldo isn't the beast he actually is

CRonaldo had a nice goal today.
I think talks of him have gone down because Higuain is scoring so many goals, but if Higuain isn't offered more money next season he will probably leave RM. Not that Higuain plays for the money, but he has 23 goals and makes less than CR9's right toe.

Zidane > Messi

Football salaries aren't that spectacular. It's the advertisement deals that gets the real money. Messi gets paid 9 million per year, which is less than a third of his total earnings. (Not saying their salaries aren't great, just saying there's more to look at than salary)