Hi guys!
Welcome back to our blog! How are you? I'm fine, I'm ready for this new year and,
to be honest, I missed all of this. I can't wait to create new contents for our
blog during all this year, and to support all of my blog mates. We are a team, guys, aren't we?
For this new October’s post, I decided to talk about one of the best
footballers ever: last year I wrote about Cristiano Ronaldo, but today I would
like to talk about “la Pulga"(his nickname, how Spanish people usually
call him during matches), Lionel Messi!
Lionel was
born on 24 June 1987 in Rosario, Argentina. He developed a passion for sport from
an early age, playing constantly with his older brothers and cousins. He
started playing football in his hometown's team, but when he was 10 he was
diagnosed with a growth hormone deficiency, to cure which cost at least $1.000
per month.
When Messi
moved with his family to Catalonia and stayed with some relatives, he was
scouted by Barcelona's first team director Charly Rexach, that offered him a
contract on a paper napkin, with no other paper at hand. When he finished his
hormone treatment aged 14, he started to play in all competitions and to become,
during the years, a starting eleven player for Barcelona.
When he started to be considered one of the best footballers, he frequently was compared to his compatriot Diego Maradona. Then in 2009 he won his first FIFA Ballon d'Or, and he won others in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015.
Nowadays,
Leo is still a Barcelona player despite he received a lot of offers from
different clubs, one above all from Manchester City. The English club recently
offered to the Argentine football star a 5-year-contract with a net annual wage
of €50m (£43.9m), but he refused, because he only wants to play for Barcelona,
where his wage is about €35m. Not bad Leo!
With
Barcelona, Messi won a lot of titles: in Spain, he won ×10 La Liga titles, ×6
Copa del Rey and ×8 Supercopa de España. Instead in Europe he won ×4 UEFA
Champions League, ×3 UEFA Super Cup and ×3 FIFA Club World Cup. Despite his
trophies, one of the best achievements ever was obtained by Leo in 2012: when
he was only 24, he became the top goalscorer in Barcelona's history, overtaking
the 57-year record of Cèsar Rodríguez’s 232 goals with a hat-trick against
Granada, on 20 March.
Of course,
Messi also plays for his national team Argentina, but he didn’t win a lot of
trophies: in his country (I don't know how that's possible!) a lot of people
hate him for his performances with Argentina.
But he
still can do something to change that situation and improve, can’t he?
In Italy,
Messi is considered as an example for everyone who wants to become a footballer
despite all odds(see health problems): the Italian writer Roberto Saviano wrote
about him in one of his books, describing him as a hornet: these animals can't
fly due to their structure, but they don’t know it and they still fly. Messi couldn’t play football due to his little
body, but… you know how the story ends!
This was my
first post for the new school year! Share it with your friends and leave a
comment…feedback is very important!
And, of
course, don’t forget to see also the other posts by my blogmates. See you in November, bye!!!
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