Messi played his first official match for the club on October 16, 2004, coming on for Deco in the 82nd minute of a LaLiga fixture against Espanyol. Browse Getty Images premium collection of high-quality, authentic Messi Debut stock photos, royalty-free images, and pictures. Barcelona, invited to take his place as one of the protagonists of this. Messi was promoted to the senior squad as a teenager and made his first team debut at only 17 years old, becoming the then youngest player to don the FC Barcelona uniform. In the summer of 2021 the love affair between FC Barcelona and Leo Messi came to an end and the Barça number 10 brought an end to his career which has been him become a life long legend for FC Barcelona. Particularly since the date in question is Sunday. Messi now breaks the 400 mark with Barcelona and at just 26 years of age has plenty of time to break whatever other records stand in his way. Almost a decade since that date, Lionel Messi makes his 400th appearance for the blaugrana against Levante. 16, 2003 is a very important date for me, he. ![]() Messi was playing with the youth team when he received the call to play for the senior team for the first time. Messi has won six La Liga titles at Barcelona since making his debut. BBC Sport looks back at his goal-den decade. In the summer of 2008 he also played at the Beijing Olympics, and came home with a gold medal. The Argentine forward made his debut in October 2004. Lionel Messi’s debut for Barcelona arrived against Jose Mourinho’s Porto side in an exhibition match to mark the opening of the Estadio do Dragao. Ten years ago, Lionel Messi scored the first of his 403 goals for Barcelona. He has also played in six Copa Américas (2007, 2011, 2015, 2016, 2019, 2021), losing in the final in both 20 to Chile on penalties before finally claiming a major honour for his country with the win over Brazil in the 2021 final. On 16 October, 2004 a 17-year-old Lionel Messi made his first-team debut for Barcelona as a substitute against Espanyol. With the Argentina national side Messi played in four World Cups (2006, 2010, 2014, 2018) as a Barça player, losing in the final in 2014 in Brazil against Germany. Other records included 91 goals in a calendar year, beating Gerd Müller's record from 1972 as well as surpassing Pelé's record for one club total of 643 goals. The Argentine has made more appearances than anyone, 778, scored more goals, 672, provided most assists, 305 and won most trophies, 35. Vowing to carry on as long as his body can handle the demands of top level soccer, there is still plenty of Messi to enjoy in the UCL before he bows out once and for all.On an individual level Messi began to set records as a youngster and never looked back. Picking up a knee knock, Ansu Fati already had the honour against Borussia Dortmund and the ramping up of preparations for the post-Messi era have seen top brass swiftly boost his personal terms and release clause this week. ![]() The Catalans already claiming Group F before heading to the San Siro to face Inter Milan on Tuesday - as they had 15 years ago today - there is currently nobody on the fringes of the first team we know about that can similarly make their maiden outing in the dead rubber affair. Arsenal are his favourite victim however, and have seen him notch nine at their expense while teams from England suffered the most at his feet overall.Ībout to present his sixth Ballon d’Or trophy to fans this evening when the Blaugrana take on Mallorca in La Liga, Messi has admitted that he would trade one of the France Football gongs awarded to the best player on the planet for one more Champions League medal. Lighting up the Old Continent, he has finished top goalscorer no less than six times and is the second all-time top goalscorer behind generational rival Cristiano Ronaldo on 114.īagging the most in an individual season in 2012, his 14 goal tally was astonishingly boosted by putting five past Bayer Leverkusen in a 7-1 rout. Winning it for the first time the following campaign, in 2005-2006, when Ronaldinho was the star, he would lift the big-eared trophy twice under Rijkaard’s eventual successor Pep Guardiola and then once more for Luis Enrique as the leader of the team. But as for club football’s most prestigious tournament, we know that Messi was only just getting warmed up.
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