Born in 1987, in Rosario, Argentina, Lionel Messi is an Argentine footballer who currently plays for a European football club called FC Barcelona as a striker. He has played for Barcelona since he began his professional career as a footballer. Furthermore, Messi is also Spanish; because he has lived in Spain for at least five years and has therefore obtained Spanish citizenship. With only 169 centimeters tall and 68 kg in weight, Lionel Messi has achieved many goals with the national team and with clubs, but also many personal recognitions during his young career as a professional player which still continues. Messi started playing football at a very young age, in his hometown of Rosario, Argentina. While in Argentina Messi played for the "Rosario Central Football club", youth divisions and impressed his coaches with his incredible skills and unique way of playing nonsense with his left foot around opponents. These people were sure of Messi's talent, but did not want to give him a contract, because while in Argentina, Messi was diagnosed with a disorder called hormone deficiency. This is a disorder where if the “pituitary gland” does not create enough hormones, the person's growth will be slower than normal (network). Years later, Mess i's parents decided to move to Barcelona, ​​Spain. And it was there that the city's football team gave him the chance to play in the youth team. After watching Messi play for several months, FC Barcelona observers were amazed by the great moves Messi showed during matches. So, they decide to take the opportunity and give Messi a contract, which included paying for treatment to help him have normal growth. At that time Messi was thirteen years old, and with today's Mes……middle of paper……s treatment Messi is preparing for the World Cup which will be played in South Africa this summer, and hopefully Messi and the Argentine team do better than the World Cup played in Germany four years ago. They were disqualified in the quarter-finals by host nation Germany. In conclusion, we can see that Messi's career has been successful in a short period of time. But he also had some upsets which were overcome by the young superstar and he also overcame his ailment to achieve his goal of becoming a professional footballer. Furthermore, all his hard work paid off as he won some of the most prestigious awards a footballer can get at this level, such as the Ballon d'Or. And this can say that he is the “FIFA World Player”, of the 2008 and 2009 seasons, because all the people decided that he decided, things like that.