Various Contributions in the Champions League,Lionel Massi,FC Barcelona.

Lionel Andre Messi is an Argentine national.He was born in Santa Fe, Aregentina on 24/06/87 and currently plays for Fc Barcelona.He started his football career in 1995 at hewell's old Boys,where he played until the year 2000 before joining Fc, Barcelona under 14 at the age of 13 where he made great progress climbing through the different youth teams before getting to the first team stage.A t the age of 16,he made his first team debut,in 2003/04 season friendly with Fc Porto that marked the opening ceremony of the new Dragao Stadium and made his official match appearance on oct.16 2004 in Barcelona's derby win against Espayol at the Olypic Stadium in which Barcelona won 1-0.From then onwards,Messi became a regular feature and on may 1,2005 he became the youngest player ever to score a league goal for fc barcelona against Albacete when he was 17 years,10 months and 7 days old.This record was only recently broken by Bojan.In 2005,at the age of 18 he won the u-20 world cup in Holland with Argentina,winning also the highest goal scorer award and the best player of the tournament and became the hottest figure in the game,winning shrtly afterwards his first full international appearance in a friendly against hungary.In 2005/06 season he had a dazzling parformance against Juventus gaining his major breakthrough against Rael Madrid at the Santiago Bernabeau in a 3-0 bashing and also in the champions league against Chelsea Fc.No doubt,in the current semi finals coming up on 06/05/2009 at Stamford Bridge he is the manb to watch out for.In 2008,he became the runner up in the FIFA WORLD PLAYER OF THE YEAR AWARD for the second season in a row after Manchester United's Christiano Ronaldo.He is very versatile with the left foot and can play in different positions,the wings,the center forward and the midfield.he is very strong,short and fast.Little wonder he is dubbed the hew Diego Amando Maradona.