The world's best footballer LIONEL MESSI turns 28... Happy Birthday MESSI.

Congrats the greatest of all times. Long live my dear.

Simply the best. I call him the bomb... Quote me. #IAMAUNITED

Barcelona himself

LIONEL MESSI - 28 Years old today!
HIP HIP HIP...Hurray!!!
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Lionel Andrés "Leo" Messi Cuccittini (born 24 June
1987) is an Argentine professional footballer who
plays for Spanish club FC Barcelona and the
Argentina
national team.
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1. By the age of 21, Messi had received Ballon d'Or
and FIFA World Player of the Year nominations.
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2. The following year, in 2009, he won his first
Ballon
d'Or and FIFA World Player of the Year awards.
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3. He followed this up by winning the inaugural
FIFA
Ballon d'Or in 2010, and then again in 2011 and
2012.
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4. He also won the 2010–11 UEFA Best Player in
Europe Award.
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5. At the age of 24, Messi became Barcelona's all-
time top scorer in all official club competitions.
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6. In September 2014 he scored his 400th senior
career goal for club and country aged just 27.
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7. In November 2014, Messi became the all-time
top
scorer in La Liga, and the all-time leading
goalscorer
in the UEFA Champions League.
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8. Messi is the first football player in history to win
four FIFA/Ballons d'Or, all of which he won
consecutively.
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9. The first to win three European Golden Shoe
awards.
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10. With Barcelona, Messi has won seven La Ligas,
three Copas del Rey, six Supercopas de España,
four
UEFA Champions Leagues, two UEFA Super Cups
and
two FIFA Club World Cups.
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11. Messi is the only player to top-score in four
consecutive Champions League seasons, and also
holds the record for the most hat-tricks scored in
the
competition with five.
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12. In March 2012, he made Champions League
history by becoming the first player to score five
goals in one match. In the 2011–12 season.
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13. Messi set the European record for most goals
scored in a season with 73 goals.
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14. He set the goalscoring record in a single La
Liga
season with 50 goals, and became the second
player
ever to score in six different official competitions in
one season after Pedro.
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15. In February 2013 he scored his 300th
Barcelona
goal. On 30 March 2013, Messi scored in his 19th
consecutive La Liga game, becoming the first
footballer in history to net in consecutive matches
against every team in a professional football
league.
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16. He extended his record scoring streak to 21
consecutive league matches. In March 2014, with a
hat-trick against Real Madrid, Messi became the
player with the most goals and most hat-tricks in
the
history of El Clásico.
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17. In October 2014, Messi, aged 27, became the
youngest player to score 250 goals in La Liga.
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18. In November 2014, Messi scored a hat-trick
against Sevilla to reach 253 La Liga goals,
becoming
the all-time top scorer in La Liga.
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19. In May 2015, he scored his 77th Champions
League goal to become its all-time leading scorer.
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20. Messi helped Argentina win the 2005 FIFA
U-20
World Cup, finishing as both the best player and
the
top scorer (with six goals).
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21. In 2006, he became the youngest Argentine to
play and score in the FIFA World Cup, and won a
runners-up medal at the Copa América in 2007, in
which he was named young player of the
tournament.
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22. In 2008, he won an Olympic Gold Medal with
the
Argentina Olympic football team.
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23. At the 2014 World Cup, he led Argentina to the
final, winning four consecutive Man of the Match
awards in the process, and received the Golden
Ball
award as the best player of the tournament.
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24. In 2013, SportsPro rated him the second-most
marketable athlete in the world.
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He is Often considered the best player in the world
and rated by some in the sport as the greatest of
all
time.
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My Grandpa told me about Pele...
My Dad told me about Maradona..
I'm gonna tell ma boys about MESSI
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HAPPY 28th BIRTHDAY TO THE LION OF DA TRIBE
OF
FOOTBALL...the greatest of THIS generation.