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IFFHS World's Best Playmaker of All Time: 2006–2022 [82] World Soccer Young Player of the Year: 2006, 2007, 2008 [83] Dongqiudi Player of the Year: 2019, [84] 2021, [85] 2022 [86] Best Player of All Time by Voetbal International: 2017 [87] [88] Best Player of All Time by 90min: 2023 [89] Best Player of All Time by Radio Times: 2023 [90]
In 2024, US-based sports company ESPN named Messi the greatest player of the 21st-century. [12] Messi's club career began with Barcelona, where he rose through the youth ranks, making his first-team debut in 2004. Over the next years, Messi became the club's all-time leading scorer, amassing numerous domestic and international accolades.
Messi is widely regarded as one of the two best players of his generation, alongside Portuguese forward Cristiano Ronaldo, [261] and one of the greatest footballers of all time. [262] A prodigious talent as a teenager, Messi established himself among the world's best players before age 20. [ 263 ]
Messi is a seven-time winner of the Ballon d'Or award for the best player in the world and lifted club soccer's biggest prize, the Champions League trophy, on four occasions.
Argentina's World Cup final win over France on penalty kicks helped seal Lionel Messi's status as one of soccer's greatest and an icon alongside ... Messi is Argentina’s all-time leading scorer ...
Messi is in the twilight of his career playing for an American team – Inter Miami in Major League Soccer. He is widely regarded as the greatest of all time, and continues to be the biggest draw ...
With over 900 goals at club and international level combined, Cristiano Ronaldo is the top goalscorer of all time. In top-level association football competitions, 25 players have scored 500 or more goals in both club and international football , according to research by the IFFHS , [ 1 ] first published in 2007. [ 2 ]
Most goals scored in a calendar year: 18 – Lionel Messi in 2022 [10] Most direct free kick goals scored in all international competitions, including friendlies: 11 – Lionel Messi; Most FIFA World Cup tournaments scored in: 4 – Lionel Messi in 2006, 2014, 2018 and 2022; Most goals scored at the FIFA World Cup: 13 – Lionel Messi [11]