Lionel Andrés Messi (born 24th June 1987) is an Argentine footballer who plays in La Liga for FC Barcelona and captains the Argentina national team, mainly as a forward.
By the age of 21, Messi received Ballon d'Or and FIFA World Player of the Year nominations. The following year he won both the Ballon d'Or and FIFA World Player of the Year in 2009, and won the inaugural FIFA Ballon d'Or in 2010 and 2011. He also won the 2010–11 UEFA Best Player in Europe Award. His playing style and small stature has drawn comparisons to Diego Maradona, who himself declared Messi as his "successor".
Messi has won five La Liga titles and three Champions League titles. After scoring 12 goals in the 2010–11 Champions League, Messi became only the third player (after Gerd Müller and Jean-Pierre Papin) to top-score in three successive European Champion Clubs' Cup campaigns, and the first since the Champions League changed its format in 1992. Messi is the fourth football player to win three Ballons d'Or, after Johan Cruyff, Michel Platini and Marco van Basten and the second player to win three consecutive Ballons d'Or, after Michel Platini (however, two of his Ballons d'Or are FIFA Ballons d'Or, which he won consecutively). In 2012, Messi made UEFA Champions League history by becoming the first player to score five goals in one match, in a 7–1 win against Bayer Leverkusen. With two goals in the next round against A.C. Milan, he matched José Altafini's record of 14 goals in a single UEFA Champions League season. After a further two goals the following week against Real Zaragoza, Messi became the first player since Gerd Müller in the 1972–73 campaign to score 60 goals in a single European season.
Messi was the top scorer of the 2005 FIFA World Youth Championship with six goals, including two in the final game. In 2006, he became the youngest Argentine to play in the FIFA World Cup and he won a runners-up medal at the Copa América tournament the following year. In 2008, in Beijing, he won his first international honour, an Olympic gold medal, with the Argentina Olympic football team.
莱昂内尔·安德雷斯·梅西（Lionel Andrés Messi，1987年6月24日－），阿根廷人，现时为巴塞罗那足球俱乐部的职业球员以及阿根廷国家足球队的国脚成员兼队长，主要打前锋位置。
在21岁之际，梅西受到“金球奖”和世界足球先生的提名。在接下来的一年里，他荣获2009年金球奖和世界足球先生双料大奖，并获得了2010新设立的国际足联金球奖，而且在2011年蝉联该奖项。同时他也获得了2010-11赛季欧足联欧洲足球先生。梅西的踢球风格以及矮小身材被用来与迭戈·马拉多纳作对比，后者曾声明梅西是他的继任者。
梅西已经获得了五个西甲联赛冠军和三座欧洲冠军杯的头衔。在2010-11赛季的欧冠打入12球后，梅西成为了第三个（在盖德·穆勒和简-皮埃尔·帕潘之后）在连续三个赛季的欧冠比赛中蝉联最佳射手之人，也是在1992年欧冠改制后的第一人。梅西是继约翰·克鲁伊夫，米歇尔·普拉蒂尼和马克·范·巴斯滕之后第四个赢得三座金球奖的球员，也是在普拉蒂尼之后蝉联三届金球奖（其中有两届是连续的国际足联金球奖）第二人。2012年，梅西在7-1大胜拜耳勒沃库森的比赛中成为创造欧冠历史地打入五球的第一人。在接下来对阵AC米兰的比赛中梅西又打入两球，追平了何塞·阿尔法菲尼的欧冠单赛季14球的纪录。在接下来对阵皇家萨拉戈萨的比赛中再度打入两球后，梅西成为继1972-73赛季的穆勒之后第一个单赛季打入60球的球员。
梅西是2005年世青杯的最佳球员，共打入六球，包括决赛中的梅开二度。2006年，他成为在世界杯赛场上出现的最年轻的阿根廷人，并在下一年获得了美洲杯亚军。在2008年的北京，梅西和他的阿根廷国奥队一起获得了他的第一个国家队冠军，一块奥运会金牌。
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参考资料：维基百科英文