Messi celebrated his 30th birthday last Saturday. Here we have compiled 30 things about this Barcelona legend from Argentina.
Private life:
1. Birthday is not the most important thing for Messi this month. This week he will marry his childhood sweetheart girlfriend in Rosario Antonella , and invite all his Barcelona teammates to attend his wedding.
2. He and Antonella already have two children, 4-year-old Thiago and just 1-year-old Matteo.
3. Like other athletes, Messi also has his own tattoo. These tattoos are honored by his mother, remembered by his children, and of course, remembered by God. He even became a tattoo artist once and tattooed a "10" on his wrist.
4. Messi's teammate Pique's impression of Messi in his youth is introvert and silent, and now he is still cherishing his words. Messi did not live in Barcelona, but in Castellidfers.
5. Suarez and Fabregas and their respective families are Messi's closest family and friends. Suarez's wife Sofia even opened a shoe store in Barcelona city and Antonee in May, and the three of them went to Ibiza together for a holiday this month.
6. Messi may have lived in Catalonia since he was born, but he still loves the food in his hometown. "Milk Toffee" and "Buddler" are still his extravagant choices, even though there are rumors that he has quit the temptation that fried steak brings to him.
7. Triscitini is the name of Messi's mother when she was young, and Messi's parents also have Italian ancestry.
8. Messi and his father George were confirmed to evade taxes in total €4.7 million last year. The report pointed out that they used portrait rights transactions to evade taxes between 2007 and 2009 through relatively low tax rates.
9. It is reported that Messi bought a resort hotel in Catalonia Sitges this year. This €30 million investment will probably be the career he will focus on after retirement.
early years
10. Messi, born in Rosario, played for the Old Boys Club in Newell in his early years until he gave up all his life and moved his family to Spain to join Barcelona. Perhaps one day he would return to his hometown to play football for Newell again.
11. The first contract Messi signed with Barcelona was the famous napkin contract. Messi was diagnosed with auxin secretion disorder at the time, and the contract covered all treatment costs for Messi.
12. It has been 13 years since Messi broke the record of the youngest starting point in Barcelona in the history of the Olympic Stadium at Espanyol. It has been about 12 years since Messi's first Barcelona goal. After that beautiful volley, a legend has officially begun.
La Liga
13. No one scored more goals than Messi in the Spanish national derby (23 goals). The most recent shot was the final victory in Bernabeu . What people remembered was the celebration of running to the sidelines after scoring a goal.
14. With the help of Messi, Barcelona swept one side and won 8 league championships, 5 Cups of Kings, 6 Spanish Super Cup , 4 Champions League , 3 UEFA Super Cup and 3 Club World Cups (a total of 29 championships).
national team
15. Messi won the U-20 World Cup championship in 2005 and led Argentina to win the Olympic gold medal in 2008.
16. Although he was recruited by the adult team very late, he still won the second place in the 2014 World Cup and the best player, and won the second place in the Copa America three times in 2007, 2015 and 2016.
17.Argentina national team No one in history has scored more goals than Messi (as of now 58 goals).
18. Messi is Argentina's youngest goal scorer in the World Cup. He scored his first goal against Sai Hei at the age of 18 and 357 days.
19. Messi is the youngest 100-time hat-trick player in the South American Football Association, breaking this record when he was 27 years old and 361 days. And he has now raised his record to 118 times.
20. The Argentina president asked Messi to reconsider his decision to withdraw from the national team in 2016. At that time, there were a large number of people marching on the streets and alleys of Buenos Aires, and the subway station also hung a banner with "Leo, don't go". In the end, he returned to the national team.
record
21. Messi is the scorer in Barcelona's history, and the current record is 507 goals.
22. Messi has won 5 World Footballers, which is more than any player in the world. He has also been selected into the top three of the Golden Globe Awards for ten consecutive years, becoming the youngest athlete to win the Golden Globe three times at 24 years old, 6 months and 17 days.
23. He is the fastest player in the five major European leagues to score 300 goals, only 334 games were used.
24. In the 2011-12 season, he scored 50 goals in the league and scored 73 goals in all competitions.
is well known worldwide
25. Recently, it was revealed that a Messi theme park may be completed in Nanjing, China in 2019.
26. There are countless artistic portraits and graffiti based on Messi's image all over the world, and these artistic works are attracting the attention of the media all the time.
27. In order to better describe Messi's greatness, a new word has been added to the Spanish dictionary, Inmessionante, which means 1) is extremely good at playing football and has infinite ability to grow itself; 2) refers to the best player in history.
28. There was once a photo that was popular on the Internet. The photo showed a boy from Afghanistan wearing an Argentine national team jersey made of blue and white striped plastic bags with the words "MESSI" written on it. Finally, when Barcelona went to , Qatar to play a friendly match with the local team, the little boy got his wish.
29. Director Alex collaborated with Warner Bros. to jointly launch a documentary about Messi's life in 2014.
30.Messi is not a social software enthusiast, but he has countless fans on social software. He doesn't have a Twitter account, but his Facebook account has received more than 80 million likes in total, and has more than 70 million followers on Instgram.
Translation: Chi Minghang
Article source: ESPN
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