INDEX

TOPIC:

LIFE OF LIONEL MESSI

STUDENT’S NAME:

 ESCOBEDO FLORES ALEX DANIEL

LEVEL:

 BASIC - INTENSIVE

DAYS:

 TUESDAY - THURSDAY - SATURDAY

TEACHER:

 BETTY RISCO TORO

Nuevo Chimbote, Perú - 2017

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DEDICATION

First to thank life, for allowing me to reach this stage of my life, to finish this new
language, where in the near future will serve me, to thank the institution for
providing us with this knowledge.

To my mother for helping me at all times, for his advice, his values, for the
constant motivation that has allowed me to be a person of good, but more than
nothing, for his love. to my father for the examples of perseverance and
constance that characterize and that has always infidel me, for the value shown
to leave for itself and for your love. to my sister for being the example of a biggest
brother and of which i learned hurt and difficult moments and to all those who
helped directly or indirectly to have this document

To my teachers for its great support and motivation for the conclusion of my
studies in a new language, for your support offered in this work, for the
transmission of the knowledge obtained and have been leaded step by step in
the learning
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INDEX

I. INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................ 4

II. BODY ................................................................................................................................... 5

2.1. ORIGIN......................................................................................................................... 5

2.2. ACHIVIEMENTS ......................................................................................................... 6

2.3. ARGENTINE SELECTION ........................................................................................ 6

2.4. BIOGRAPHY ............................................................................................................... 7

2.5. MESSI AND BARCELONA ....................................................................................... 8

2.6. MESSI AND ITS SELECTION .................................................................................. 9

2.7. SPARKS BRANDS ................................................................................................... 10

III. CONCLUSIONS............................................................................................................ 11

IV. BIBLIOGRAPHY ........................................................................................................... 12

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I. INTRODUCTION

Lionel Messi is a Star soccer forward who gained world fame while playing with
FC Barcelona and as captain of Argentina's national team. He won the Ballon
d'Or four straight years from 2009 to 2012 and he received the Golden Ball Award
after leading the Argentinian national team to the World Cup Championship game
in 2014.

He was diagnosed with a growth hormone deficiency when he was 11 years old
and his local club, River Plate, did not want to pay to treat it, so he moved to
Spain to play for FC Barcelona.

When he was 25, he became the youngest player in history to score 200 goals in
La Liga and in March 2012, he became the first player in Champions League
history to score five goals in a single match.

He grew up in Argentina with his parents Jorge and Celia, and his siblings: Maria,
Matias, and Rodrigo. He married Antonella Roccuzzo in 2017. He and Antonella
have two sons, Mateo and Thiago.

Many pundits began calling him the next Pele after he won the 2009 UEFA Super
Cup with Barcelona.
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II. BODY

Lionel Andrés "Leo" Messi; born 24 June 1987

is an Argentine professional footballer who
plays as a forward for Spanish club FC
Barcelona and the Argentina national team.
Often considered the best player in the world
and regarded by many as the greatest of all
time, Messi is the only player in history to win
five FIFA Ballon d'Or awards, four of which he
won consecutively, and a record-tying four
European Golden Shoes. He has won 29
trophies with Barcelona, including eight La
Liga titles, four UEFA Champions League
titles, and five Copas del Rey. Both a prolific
goalscorer and a creative playmaker, Messi
holds the records for most official goals scored in La Liga (360), a La Liga season
(50) and a club football season in Europe (73), a calendar year (91), as well as
those for most assists made in La Liga (140) and the Copa América (11). He has
scored over 600 senior career goals for club and country.

2.1. ORIGIN

Born and raised in central Argentina, Messi was diagnosed with a growth
hormone deficiency as a child. At age 13, he relocated to Spain to join
Barcelona, who agreed to pay for his medical treatment. After a fast
progression through Barcelona's youth academy, Messi made his
competitive debut aged 17 in October 2004. Despite being injury-prone
during his early career, he established himself as an integral player for the
club within the next three years, finishing 2007 as a finalist for both the
Ballon d'Or and FIFA World Player of the Year award, a feat he repeated
the following year. His first uninterrupted campaign came in the 2008–09
season, during which he helped Barcelona achieve the first treble in
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Spanish football. At 22 years old, Messi won the Ballon d'Or and FIFA
World Player of the Year award by record voting margins.

2.2. ACHIVIEMENTS

Three successful seasons followed, with Messi winning three consecutive

FIFA Ballons d'Or, including an unprecedented fourth. His personal best
campaign statistically to date was the 2011–12 season, in which he set the
La Liga and European records for most goals scored in a single season,
while establishing himself as Barcelona's all-time top scorer in official
competitions in March 2012. He again struggled with injury during the
following two seasons, twice finishing second for the Ballon d'Or behind
Cristiano Ronaldo, his perceived career rival. Messi regained his best form
during the 2014–15 campaign, breaking the all-time goalscoring records in
both La Liga and the Champions League in November 2014, and led
Barcelona to a historic second treble.

2.3. ARGENTINE SELECTION

An Argentine international, Messi is his country's all-time leading

goalscorer. At youth level, he won the 2005 FIFA World Youth
Championship, finishing the tournament with both the Golden Ball and
Golden Shoe, and an Olympic gold medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics.
His style of play as a diminutive, left-footed dribbler drew comparisons with
compatriot Diego Maradona, who declared the teenager his successor.
After making his senior debut in August 2005, Messi became the youngest
Argentine to play and score in a FIFA World Cup during the 2006 edition,
and reached the final of the 2007 Copa América, where he was named
young player of the tournament. As the squad's captain from August 2011,
he led Argentina to three consecutive finals: the 2014 World Cup, for which
he won the Golden Ball, and the 2015 and 2016 Copas América. After
announcing his international retirement in 2016, he reversed his decision
and led his country to qualification for the 2018 World Cup.
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2.4. BIOGRAPHY

Lionel Messi, in full Lionel Andrés Messi, also called Leo Messi (born June
24, 1987, Rosario, Argentina), Argentine-born football (soccer) player who
was named Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) world
player of the year five times (2009–12 and 2015).

Messi started playing football as a boy and

in 1995 joined the youth team of Newell’s
Old Boys (a Rosario-based top-division
football club). Messi’s phenomenal skills
garnered the attention of prestigious clubs
on both sides of the Atlantic. At age 13
Messi and his family relocated to
Barcelona, and he began playing for FC
Barcelona’s under-14 team. He scored 21
goals in 14 games for the junior team, and
he quickly graduated through the higher-level teams until at age 16 he was
given his informal debut with FC Barcelona in a friendly match.

In the 2004–05 season Messi, then 17,

became the youngest official player and
goal scorer in the Spanish La Liga (the
country’s highest division of football).
Though only 5 feet 7 inches (1.7 metres)
tall and weighing 148 pounds (67 kg), he
was strong, well-balanced, and versatile
on the field. Naturally left-footed, quick,
and precise in control of the ball, Messi
was a keen pass distributor and could
readily thread his way through packed
defenses. In 2005 he was granted Spanish citizenship, an honour greeted
with mixed feelings by the fiercely Catalan supporters of Barcelona. The
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next year Messi and Barcelona won the Champions League (the European
club championship) title.

Messi’s play continued to rapidly improve over the years, and by 2008 he
was one of the most dominant players in the world, finishing second to
Manchester United’s Cristiano Ronaldo in the voting for the 2008 FIFA
World Player of the Year. In early 2009 Messi capped off a spectacular
2008–09 season by helping FC Barcelona capture the club’s first “treble”
(winning three major European club titles in one season): the team won
the La Liga championship, the Copa del Rey (Spain’s major domestic cup),
and the Champions League title. He scored 38 goals in 51 matches during
that season, and he bested Ronaldo in the balloting for FIFA World Player
of the Year honours by a record margin. During the 2009–10 season Messi
scored 34 goals in domestic games as Barcelona repeated as La Liga
champions. He earned the Golden Shoe award as Europe’s leading
scorer, and he was named the 2010 world player of the year (the award
was renamed the FIFA Ballon d’Or that year).

2.5. MESSI AND BARCELONA

Messi led Barcelona to La Liga and Champions League titles the following
season, which helped him capture an unprecedented third consecutive
world player of the year award. In March 2012 he netted his 233rd goal for
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Barcelona, becoming the club’s all-time leading scorer in La Liga play
when only 24 years old. He finished Barcelona’s 2011–12 season (which
included another Copa del Rey win) with 73 goals in all competitions,
breaking Gerd Müller’s 39-year-old record for single-season goals in a
major European football league. His landmark season led to his being
named the 2012 world player of the year, which made Messi the first player
to win the honour four times. His 46 La Liga goals in 2012–13 led the
league, and Barcelona captured another domestic top-division
championship that season. In 2014 he set the overall Barcelona goal
record when he scored his 370th goal as a member of the team. That same
year he also broke the career scoring records for play in both the
Champions League (with 72 goals) and La Liga (with 253 goals). Messi
helped Barcelona capture another treble during the 2014–15 season,
leading the team with 43 goals scored over the course of the campaign,
which resulted in his fifth world player of the year honour. He scored 41
goals across all competitions for Barcelona in 2015–16, and the club won
the La Liga title and the Copa del Rey during that season. Messi topped
that with 53 goals for Barcelona in 2016–17, leading the team to another
Copa del Rey title.

2.6. MESSI AND ITS SELECTION

Despite his dual citizenship and

professional success in Spain, Messi’s ties
with his homeland remained strong, and
he was a key member of various Argentine
national teams from 2005. He played on
Argentina’s victorious 2005 FIFA World
Youth Championship squad, represented
the country in the 2006 World Cup, and
scored two goals in five matches as
Argentina swept to the gold medal at the
Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. Messi
helped Argentina reach the 2010 World Cup quarterfinals, where the team
was eliminated by Germany for the second consecutive time in World Cup
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play. At the 2014 World Cup, Messi put on a dazzling display, scoring four
goals and almost single-handedly propelling an offense-deficient
Argentina team through the group stage and into the knockout rounds,
where Argentina then advanced to the World Cup final for the first time in
24 years. Argentina lost that contest 1–0 to Germany, but Messi
nevertheless won the Golden Ball award as the tournament’s best player.
During the 2016 Copa América Centenario tournament, he netted his 55th
international goal to break Gabriel Batistuta’s Argentine scoring record.
After Argentina was defeated in the Copa final—the team’s third
consecutive finals loss in a major tournament—Messi said that he was
quitting the national team, but his short-lived “retirement” lasted less than
two months before he announced his return to the Argentine team.

2.7. SPARKS BRANDS

Off the field, Messi was one of the biggest athletic stars in the world. In
addition to earning a football salary that was frequently, with Ronaldo’s,
one of the two largest athletes’ salaries in all professional sports, he was
an extremely successful product pitchman, notably for the sportswear
company Adidas. In 2013 Messi and his father (who handled his son’s
finances) were charged with tax fraud and accused of using overseas shell
companies to avoid paying €4.2 million in Spanish taxes on endorsement
earnings. Despite subsequently paying €5 million to the Spanish state, the
pair were nevertheless ordered to stand trial on the charges in 2016. In
July of that year, Messi and his father were each given suspended 21-
month prison sentences (first-time offenders in Spain are given suspended
sentences if the duration is under two years) and were fined €2 million and
€1.5 million, respectively.
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III. CONCLUSIONS

 Lack of money was problem, but Lionel in his early life, had to
overcome many physical difficulties and diseases.

 Lionel Messi started his brilliant career in Newell’s Old Boys . At that
moment the best teams in the world became interested in him.

 In the Barcelona Messi had his best time as a footballer. Winning many
titles and individual achievements.

 After being awarded the best player in the world. The Bacelona paid a
fortune for him.

 I have been a kind and good person to many people. Supports many
charitable organizations in the world.
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IV. BIBLIOGRAPHY

 https://www.scribd.com/document/291066507/Monografia-Messi

 http://edyaldanna.blogspot.pe/2017/01/conclusiones.html

 https://www.scribd.com/document/291066507/Monografia-Messi

 http://www.buenastareas.com/materias/monografia-de-messi/0

 http://www.monografias.com/trabajos108/liderazgo-lionel-
messi/liderazgo-lionel-messi.shtml

 https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lionel-Messi

 https://www.famousbirthdays.com/people/lionel-messi.html

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Messi