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Why Lionel Messi is the Greatest of All Time 🐐!!
With Career TimeLine!!
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A Tribute to the 🐐on account of his Birthday🎂 !!!!
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Leo Messi!! The greatest player to ever kick the ball was born on this very day 34 Years ago!!
It has been a long Journey from then lets go through each and every aspect of it..
But first lets begin with an Intro Video on the 🐐.
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Career Timeline:
Chapter 1⃣: Meteoric Rise to Fame(2000-05) and Becoming a starter at FC Barcelona (2005-08)

Messi was born in the Argentine City of Rosario. Leo began his youth career at Argentine Club Newell's Old Boys were Legends like the late Diego Maradona and Legendary Manager Marcelo Bielsa played.
Leo was later signed by FC Barcelona at the age of 13 by Carles Rexach❗️
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Blaugrana legend Carles Rexach who signed Leo said:
🗣️"We organised a practise match. I needed just 5 minutes to be clear that we had to sign him. He was brilliant and I knew we couldn't let him get away, even though there were a lot of obstacles in the way "
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Leo quickly progressed through the youth ranks of FC Barcelona and made his First-Term debut at the tender age of 16 years against Jose Mourinho's Porto in a Friendly. He came on as an substitute in the 75th Minute..
Leo made his LaLiga debut against Espanyol,Oct 16 2004.
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On 24 June 2005, his 18th birthday Messi signed his First contract renewal with a release clause of €150 million
Messi's first breakthrough came on 24th Aug at the Gamper Trophy against Fabio Capello's Juventus. According to rumours after the match Capello tried to loan Messi..

Joan Laporta said that it was the only time the club faced a real risk of losing Messi.
Capello also said
🗣️In my entire life I have never seen a player of such quality and personality at such a young age,
particularly wearing the 'heavy' shirt of one of the world's best
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La Pulga's second biggest break came when he scored a Hat-Trick against Real Madrid at the Camp Nou on 10th March,2007. It was also the first Classico Hat-trick in 12 Years
In the 2007-08 Season Messi replaced Ronaldinho as the brazilian's form dipped.......(continued)
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La Pulga became a starter of FC Barcelona and was a vital cog in Barça's UCL campaign which fetched them to the Semi-Final of UCL .
Messi scored 16 goals and had 13 assists which fetched him 3rd in the Ballon d'Or rankings behind Kaka and CR7..
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Chapter 2⃣: Arrival of Pep Guardiola and Tito Villanova at the Head of Camp Nou (2009-12)
Context: ❗️At the end of the 2007-08 season Barcelona president Joan Laporta appointed Pep Guardiola as the new manager of the club after biding Adieu to Frank Rijkaard..❗️

When Pep Guardiola arrived he said to part ways with greats like Ronaldinho and Deco which freed up spaces in the attack for Pedro and Messi Guardiola also wanted to make a competitive youth side so he promoted Pedro and Busquets from BarçaB and signed Pique from Man.Utd.

In Pep's first season as boss of Barça Messi played as a Right Winger alongside Henry and Eto'o as strike partners. Together the trio scored a grand sum of 100 goals in all competitions.
This season was also the season in which Pep and Messi created the ICONIC False 9 position...

The False 9 position was first used on May 2nd, 2009 against Real Madrid at the Bernebeu with an Emphatic win of 6-2 over in which Messi scored twice..
Also Messi's consistency resulted in Barça winning the LaLiga and a Copa Del Rey win of 4-1 over Athletic Bilbao.
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Now in the UCL quarter Final against Bayern, Messi contributed in Barça's all 4 goals, scoring and assisting Twice and in the Final against ManUtd. Leo operated as a False 9 eventually winning 2-0 with a Messi Header Goal
This victory sealed the First Treble in Barça's History❗️

In 2009 Messi won the Ballon d'Or for the 1st time over CR7
In the 2009-10 Season also Messi and Pep formed a formiddable duo to seal the LaLiga .Unfortunately losing in the UCL Semi-Final to Jose's Inter
In this season Messi netted 47⚽️ to seal him his 2nd Ballon d'Or in row❗️

In 2010-11 Season also Pep's Barça with Messi as a Vital cog of it won 5 trophies to secure Messi his 3rd Ballon d'Or in a row.
This season also saw 4 Classico's in 18 days in which Barça won the UCL Semi-Finals and Real Madrid edging the Copa Del Rey.
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In the LaLiga campaign Barça secured 96 Points over Madrid's 92 and in the UCL Final Barça destroyed ManUtd. at Wembley Stadium with a scoreline of 3-1
with goals from a Legendary Trio of David Villa, Pedro and Messi to seal Barça's 2nd UCL in 3 years.
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Messi also Netted 53 goals and assisted 23 times and was the Best in the World for the 3rd time in a row and became the Second player to do it after Michel Platini
He also won the UEFA Men's Player of the Year Award for being the Best in the World..
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Now begins the 2011-12 season.
In this season Barça won only the Copa Del Rey losing the League to Real Madrid for 9 points and getting out of the UCL to eventual champions Chelsea by a late goal from Fernando Torres..
In this season we saw Messi scoring 73 times!!!
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The 2012 Year was the best year by far for messi as he scored 91 teams breaking all sorts of records along with the long-standing record of Gerd Muller of scoring 85 goals in a calendar year. Messi's form was Phenomenal which fetched him his 4th Ballon d'Or in a row!!!
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Chapter 3⃣: Season of 100 points (2012-13)
In 2012-13 Season Barça's managerial change took place which saw Pep Guardiola leaving the Club after 4 golden Years. His Assistant Tito Villanova was named the New Head of Camp Nou.
In Tito's first and only season as the manager.....

.....of Barça the club did the unthinkable of winning the league with 100 points the first in the Club's History
In this season Messi scored 60 Goals and Assisted 15 times in this season.
Also in this season Messi surpassed César Rodríguez's record of 190 league goals!!!
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Chapter 4⃣: MSN Era:
On 11 July 2014 FC Barcelona announced the Signing of Luis Suarez which formed the legendary trio of Messi-Neymar-Suarez aka MSN.
The trio combined for a total of 122 goals in their First season together in which Messi scored 58 goals.
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In their First Season together Barça won 5 trophies equalling the clubs 2nd best performance in a season.
Barça won the LaLiga that season with a tally of 94 points.
Barça cruised the Champions League by winning over English Champions City in the RO16, French Champions PSG......

...... in the Quarter Finals, German Champions Bayern in Semi-Finals and Italian champions Juventus in the Final to seal the Victory to become European Champions.
Also who can forget Messi's Iconic goal v/s Bayern which blew up Social Media and the Footballing World.....
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Messi's link up with the MSN trio and Captain Iniesta made them won the treble for the Second Time
and fetched Leo his Second UEFA Best Player in Europe award and his 5th Ballon d'Or
The 2015-16 Season was also a great year as Barça won the domestic Double...
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In this Season Messi scored 41 goals and assisted 23 times. In this season Messi scored his 500th senior career goal for club and country in Barça's 2–1 home loss to Valencia
On 22 May 2016, against Sevilla in the CDR Final Messi assisting both goals against Sevilla to win it!!!

Although the 2016-17 Season was not a great season on terms of accomplishments Barça won only the Copa Del Rey but still the Most Iconic Moment in his career in this very Season "La Remontada" against PSG in the UCL which sealed the greatest comeback in UCL History!!!
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Chapter 5⃣: 7th Ballon d'Or under Ernesto Valverde (2017-19)
Credits: @_efutbol_ (follow him for great edits)

The 2017-18 Season started with Mangerial change which saw Luis Enrique move out of the club and brought in Ernesto Valverde....
In his first season as manager of Barça, the club reached the Quarter Finals of the UCL sadly crashing out to AS Roma but on the domestic side........

......Barça won the Spanish Double of LaLiga and Copa Del Rey.
Barça almost went invincible with just 1 loss in 38 games, thanks to 34 goals and 12 assists from the litle magician who lit up the Domestic scene with his partner in crime Luis Suarez. The duo combined for 79 Goals❗️

In the next season i.e 2018-19 Leo reached the peak of his powers Scoring Left Right and Center . His magic on the pitch helped Barça to win its 26th LaLiga(Leo's 10th), reach the Copa Del Rey Final and UCL Semi-Finals
In this season Messi scored his 50th HatTrick on 23rd Feb...

....against Sevilla, this goal was also Leo's 650th Goal for Club and Country.
In the 2018 year for his prolific goalscoring tally Messi was awarded his record 6th Golden Boot!!!
In this season Messi had 70 goal contributions which consisted of 51 Goals and 19 Assists
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Through his Career Time-Line we have seen how great of a player La Pulga is...
Now lets talk about his Honours:
Club Level Honours
🔟 LaLiga
7⃣ Copa Del Rey
7⃣ SuperCopa de España
4⃣ UEFA Champions League
3⃣ UEFA Super Cup
3⃣ FIFA Club World Cup
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Leo has more than 100 individual awards in which the most valuable ones are noted
FIFA Ballon d'Or6⃣
European Golden Shoe6⃣
World Cup Golden Ball (2014)
Golden Boy (2005)
Pichichi Trophy8⃣
Ballon d'Or Dream Team🥇
Laureus World Sportsman of the Year: (2020)
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All Time Career Statistics
App. 9⃣2⃣5⃣
⚽️: 7⃣4⃣5⃣
🎯: 3⃣1⃣1⃣
Free Kick goals: 5⃣7⃣
Penalties: 9⃣9⃣
HatTricks: 5⃣4⃣
Man of the Match Awards: 3⃣2⃣5⃣
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Messi also has the most Dribbles completed in the History of Football i.e. : 2⃣8⃣8⃣3⃣
Messi also has an xG of 192.37
The above stats prove that Leo is an Prolific scorer who is also the best in the art of Dribbling..
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Legends on Messi:
🗣️ — Pep Guardiola: “Messi is the best player I have ever seen. The best thing about him is not what he does but how simple he makes everything look."
🗣️Maldini: I didn't play against Messi because he was injured.
🗣️Reporter: He was lucky.
🗣️Maldini: No, I was

🗣️— Nesta: In the tenth minute I kicked Messi and fell to the ground exhausted, I could see the stars. He was already giving me his hand to pull me up. There he mentally destroyed me
🗣️— Jose Mourinho: “When Messi has the ball one-on-one, you are dead”

🗣️— Luis Enrique: Messi is Matrix. He’s able to stop the time and do whatever he wants. Apart from him, I have never seen anyone doing that. He is the best I’ve ever seen.”

🗣️—"Johan Cryuff: For the world of football, Messi is a treasure because he is a role model for children around the world.
Messi will be the player with the most Ballon d'Or (s) in History. He will win Five, Six,Seven.
He is Incomparable
He is in a different league"
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All these Statistics and Accomplishments proves Messi's Legacy at Barca and makes him a Footballing Legend for Eternity!!!
You will always be in our Hearts
🎂Feliz cumpleaños Leo🐐🎂
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