Lionel Messi: Argentina star player at World Cup 2010

By Oliver Brown 1100AM GMT eighteen March 2010

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Caps 43Goals 13World Cup appearances 3 (2006)World Cup 2010 gift eighteen appearances/4 goals

Club BarcelonaAge 22Position Midfielder

Lionel Messi in cinema Argentina group at World Cup 2010 Argentina in cinema Manchester United winger Cristiano Ronaldo staid to supplement Fifa climax to his pick up Scotland v Argentina Game Zone Robinho and Elano enthuse Brazil to World Cup subordinate win over Venezuela

Considered to be one of the excellent players of his generation, Messi has seen his personification character and capability review to those of Argentina head manager Diego Maradona, who has identified Messi as his successor.

The petite winger has been personification the diversion given he was hardly means to travel and his intensity was fast beheld by Barcelona.

He left his Rosario girl group in 2000 to move with his family to Europe, with the Catalans charity diagnosis for his expansion hormone deficiency.

He has set La Liga annals as the youngest footballer to fool around a joining diversion and the youngest to measure a joining goal.

The Barcelona group flourished around him, winning La Liga in his entrance deteriorate and a three-way this year, an all-conquering debate to that he contributed 38 goals.

Great Messi moments

"Messidona"

In an supernatural replay of Diego Maradona"s second idea opposite England at the 1986 World Cup, weaved by the Getafe group in the Copa del Rey semi-final of Apr 2007 to consequence himself the nickname, "Messidona"Watch on YouTube

Last time ...

The most appropriate touches, dribbles, flicks and turns from World Cup 2006 Look out for some-more of the same in South Africa.Watch on YouTube

On form ...

Ten good goals from 2009 show the implausible close carry out and finishing energy that gives Messi"s opponents be scared attacksWatch on YouTube

Air Messi

Messi"s athleticism renders his miss of earthy participation irrelevant, as Manchester United found out out in the Champions League last of 2009.Watch on YouTube