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Universidad Nacional Del
Santa
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.
II.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
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2008–09 season, during which he helped Barcelona achieve the first
treble in Spanish football. At 22 years old, Messi won the Ballon d'Or and
FIFA World Player of the Year award by record voting margins.
II.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.
II.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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II.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
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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 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).
II.5. MESSI AND BARCELONA
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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 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.
II.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
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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 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.
II.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
