Today we want to talk about one of the best players of the online game Puntos Comunio: Leo Messi.
Lionel Andrés Messi (Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina, June 24, 1987), also known as Leo Messi, is an Argentine footballer. He plays as a striker for FC Barcelona in the First Division of Spain, and in the Argentina football team, in which he is also the captain.
Since 2009 he is considered by many sport magazines, players, managers, directors and the press in general as “the best player in the world”. He received the award “Best Player of the World Cup” and the “Golden Ball” in 2009. He is also the first winner of the FIFA “Golden Ball” in 2010. His skill while playing have been compared to the one from the football legend Diego Armando Maradona, who told that Messi is his “successor”. Messi has broken several records with the Football Club Barcelona. He is the third highest scorer in club history, and he is among the 10 foreign players with most appearances. In the online game Comunio, he did a total of 257 points in the last season. You can check all the points of that season in this post: “Puntos Comunio Jornada 6“.
Leo Messi started playing football at a young age and his potential was quickly identified by the Football Club Barcelona. He moved to Europe at the age of 13 with his family, where the FC Barcelona offered to pay the costs of his hormonal disease (900 USD per month). He made his first team debut for FC Barcelona in December 2003 in a friendly match against FC Porto coached by Jose Mourinho. His official match debut came the following year, in the 2004/2005 season in a match league against RCD Espanyol. Messi became the youngest player in Barcelona to play a match of the Spanish League (16 years old). Barcelona went on to win the league in 2004/05 and the following year the club managed to win the Champions League 2005/06. His big breakthrough came in the 2006/07 season, where he became part of the first team, and he scored a hat-trick against Real Madrid, ending the season with 14 goals in 26 matches. The 2008/2009 season was the one of his consecration as the world player of the moment. Barcelona got three titles that season, and Messi scored a total of 38 goals. In the 2009/2010 Messi got some historical records, scoring 47 goals during all season, and 34 of them were in the Spanish league competition. He ended up winning the “Golden Boot” and matching the record of Ronaldo in the season 1996/1997.
Messi is a prominent player in the Argentina football team too, where he currently serves as Captain of the team. In 2006 he became the youngest player in Argentina to attend to a World Cup, and won the second place in the Copa America 2007. In 2008, in the Beijing Olympics, he won his first international honor, a Gold Medal.