Lionel Messi Biography and Net Worth 2022

 Lionel Messi Biography

Lionel Andrés Messi born 24 June 1987, also  called Leo Messi, is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a forward for Ligue 1 club Paris Saint-Germain and captains the Argentina national team. Regularly thought to be the best player on the planet and broadly viewed as perhaps the best player ever, Messi has won a record seven Ballon d'Or awards, a record six European Golden boots, and in 2020 was named to the Ballon d'Or Dream Team. 

Until leaving the club in 2021, he had enjoyed his whole professional football with Barcelona, where he won a club-record 35 titles, including ten La Liga titles, seven Copa del Rey titles and four UEFA Champions Leagues. A top goalscorer and innovative playmaker, Messi holds the records for most objectives in La Liga (474), a La Liga and European association season (50), most full go-arounds in La Liga (36) and the UEFA Champions League (8), and most aids La Liga (192), a La Liga season (21) and the Copa América (17). 

He likewise holds the record for most worldwide objectives by a South American male (80). Messi has scored north of 750 senior vocation objectives for club and country, and has the most objectives by a player for a solitary club. Brought up in central Argentina, Messi migrated to Spain to join Barcelona at age 13, for whom he made his debut when he was 17 in October 2004. 

He laid down a good foundation for himself as an essential player for the club inside the following three years, and in his first continuous season in 2008-09 he assisted Barcelona with accomplishing the main high pitch in Spanish football; that year, matured 22, Messi won his first Ballon d'Or. Three effective seasons followed, with Messi winning four continuous Ballons d'Or, making him the primary player to win the honor multiple times and in a row. During the 2011-12 season, he set the La Liga and European records for most objectives scored in a single season, while laying down a good foundation for himself as Barcelona's unequaled top scorer. 

The accompanying two seasons, Messi completed second for the Ballon d'Or behind Cristiano Ronaldo (his apparent profession rival), prior to recovering his best structure during the 2014-15 mission, turning into the unsurpassed top scorer in La Liga and driving Barcelona to a memorable second high pitch, after which he was granted a fifth Ballon d'Or in 2015. Messi expected captaincy of Barcelona in 2018, and in 2019 he won a record 6th Ballon d'Or. Out of agreement, he finished paperwork for Paris Saint-Germain in August 2021. An Argentine icon, Messi is the both his country's most noteworthy appearance-creator and their unequaled driving goalscorer. 

At youth level, he won the 2005 FIFA World Youth Championship, completing the competition with both the Golden Ball and Golden Shoe, and an Olympic gold decoration at the 2008 Summer Olympics. His style of play as a little, left-footed dribbler drew correlations with his comrade Diego Maradona, who portrayed Messi as his replacement. After his senior introduction in August 2005, Messi turned into the most youthful Argentine to play and score in a FIFA World Cup in 2006, and arrived at the last of the 2007 Copa América, where he was named youthful player of the competition. 

As the crew's skipper from August 2011, he drove Argentina to three successive finals: the 2014 FIFA World Cup, for which he won the Golden Ball, and the 2015 and 2016 Copa América, winning the Golden Ball in the 2015 release. Subsequent to reporting his global retirement in 2016, he turned around his choice and drove his country to capability for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, a third-place finish at the 2019 Copa América, and won the 2021 Copa América, while winning the Golden Ball and Golden Boot grant for the last option. This accomplishment would see him get a record seventh Ballon d'Or in 2021. 

Messi has supported athletic apparel organization Adidas starting around 2006. As per France Football, he was the world's most generously compensated footballer for a long time out of six somewhere in the range of 2009 and 2014, and was positioned the world's most generously compensated competitor by Forbes in 2019. Messi was among Time's 100 most powerful individuals on the planet in 2011 and 2012. In February 2020, he was granted the Laureus World Sportsman of the Year, consequently turning into the primary footballer and the principal group activity competitor to win the honor.  

Family

He is married to Antonela Roccuzzo and they have 4 children together.

Lionel Messi Net Worth

Lionel Messi has a net worth of $400 millionand his source of wealth being Football contracts, Endorsement deals and Business Investments.