Messi , From Zero to Hero

After leading Barcelona to many historic achievements, it is no different that Argentinian Lionel Messi is the best in the history of the Catalan club, which achieved a historic miracle a few days ago when Paris Saint-Germain swept the French one-sixth against a single goal to achieve "Ramontada" or historical return, After losing the first leg of the Champions League quarter-final to a quarter-final of the Champions League, we show you a glimpse of a child who has suffered from illness and poverty in childhood and then becomes the first star in the eyes of many football fans.

Earlylife

Lionel Andres Messi was born on June 24, 1987, in the Argentine city of Rosario, where he saw his older brothers play soccer with their friends and sometimes play with them. He was impressed by the game and joined Newell's Old Boys when he was old Eight years.

One of the doctors discovered that Lionel was suffering from a lack of growth hormone, which made him appear smaller than the rest of the children, to begin the story of the suffering of the young child and the reason for his stars later.

Lunel's parents, Jorge and Cecilia, decided to give their son a cure by injecting the growth hormone every night, but later discovered that it would be too expensive and could not save money to keep doing so. , Barcelona offered him to train in the "La Massia" academy, and the club would bear the cost of his treatment. Lionel and his family moved to Spain.

Journey to Barcelona

Messi has set a record high in the Catalan club's age groups and has begun training with the stars of the first team, which included stars such as Brazilian Ronaldinho, Deco, Carlos Puyol and Frenchman Ludovic Jolie, who described one of the training sessions for Lionel. "We were all destroyed, everyone was trying to hit him. "We are not insulted by this child, who dodged three or four players and scored a goal, but he always got up and made his way to the goal.

Lionel played his first game for the first team when he was 17, three months and 22 days, when he took part in the 82nd minute against Espanyol in the Catalunya derby on 16 October 2004, That match.

The Messi legend has started with Barcelona since that day, scoring his first goal against Albacete on May 1, 2005, becoming the youngest player to score for the Catalan club in history at the time.

Barca scored a record 524 goals for the Catalans in 569 for the Catalan side, making it a historic lead ahead of Spain's Cesar with 223 goals. He is the fourth most active player after Xavi, Andres Iniesta and Carles Puyol.

Ronaldinho’s  role

The Brazilian magician played an important role in the arrival of Lionel to the first team, considering him "his younger brother" and confident of his talent, and assured his teammates that Messi will become better than later.

Several press reports indicated that Ronaldinho pressed the Dutch coach, Frank Rijkaard, to join Lionel to the first team, to make him then his first goal in his career with Barcelona and carry him on his back to celebrate the goal in a shot not forgotten by fans of the Catalan team.

Achievements with Barca

Messi won his first league title with Barcelona in 2005 when he won the Spanish league title in the 2004/05 season. He then won seven titles in the Liga, four titles in the Champions League, two in the King's Cup, Titles in the Spanish Super and three in the Super European and like them to the Club World Cup, to achieve 26 championship with the Catalan team in 12 years.

Personal achievements

Messi won the FIFA World Player of the Year award on five occasions, most recently in 2015, to be the most successful player in football history to win this award, and has won several other personal awards in his tournaments.

It’s bad luck

Although Messi is one of the best players in the history of Argentine football, his fans are still not satisfied with him because he has not achieved any title with the "tango dancers" since joining the first team.

Messi arrived in the Copa America final in 2007 but his country lost to Brazil 3-0, before Argentina lost the final to 2014, when they reached the final of the World Cup in Brazil and lost to Germany 1-0.

The series of misfortunes for Messi did not stop at that point, but he returned and lost two successive Copa America finals to Chile in the last two editions to announce his retirement from international football before retreating and leading his country in the 2018 World Cup qualifiers.