Lionel Andrés Messi is an Argentine footballer who was born in June 24th 1987. He is currently 23 years old. Lionel is considered to be one of the footballers around and plays for the FC Barcelona and is on the Argentina national team. Lionel has received honors in many different fields. For Argentina he has won the FIFA U-20 World Cup in 2005 and in 2008 he won an olympic gold medal. Some of his individual... read article
The nominees have just been announced, here's the full list: Xabi Alonso (Spain), Daniel Alves (Brazil), Iker Casillas (Spain), Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal), Didier Drogba (Ivory Coast), Samuel Eto'o (Cameroon), Cesc Fabregas (Spain), Diego Forlan (Uruguay), Asamoah Gyan (Ghana), Andres Iniesta (Spain), Julio Cesar (Brazil), Miroslav Klose (Germany), Philipp Lahm (Germany), Maicon (Brazil), Lionel Messi (Argentina), Thomas Muller (Germany), Mesut Ozil (Germany), Carles Puyol (Spain), Arjen Robben (Holland), Bastian Schweinsteiger (Germany), Wesley Sneijder (Holland), David Villa (Spain) and Xavi (Spain). The following five are the bookmakers' favorites to win the trophy.
With just one game left, Barca lead bitter rivals Real Madrid by a point and that means a win over Valladolid will guarantee a second successive league title for the Catalans. But Valladolid are fighting for their lives and Guardiola expects a difficult test against his former national team coach Javier Clemente.
FIFA have announced the three nominees and all three are Barcelona players: Xavi, Lionel Messi and Andres Iniesta. The winner will be announced on January 10th.
for the 47th time this season, Leo Messi found the back of the net. Toure played the ball through for the Argentinian wizard, but there was still work to be done. Messi duly did it, beating two defenders before cutting the ball back across the face of Jacobo to nestle in the corner.
Lionel Messi's Argentina will meet Cristiano Ronaldo's Portugal in a high-profile international friendly match that will be played in Geneva on Wednesday. Both sides are coming from good results as Portugal beat Spain 4-0 in the last friendly while Argentina beat fierce rivals Brazil in 2010.
He won't be able to score until the end of the tournament.
Argentina are doing well, they won their first two games and are qualified for the round of sixteen. Lionel Messi played pretty well too but so far he failed to get his name on the score sheet. Will he have the opportunity to feel the joy of a World Cup goal?
They'll have a slow start so they might be happy with a draw.
The Spanish Primera Division will kick off this weekend and champions Barcelona will start their title defending chase with a tricky away game at Racing Santander. Will they win it?
