messi-ah

OMG ! badly ill due to soccer fever :) and symptoms is I start screaming and cherring loundly for my argentina and messi.

Here I post few intresting things about ‘Lionel andre’s messi’ :
Messi was born on 24 June 1987 in Rosario, Argentina, to parents Jorge Messi, a factory worker, and Celia (née Cuccitini), a part-time cleaner. His paternal family originates from the Italian city of Ancona.
At the age of five, Messi started playing football for Grandoli, a local club coached by his father Jorge.

The irony of Lionel Messi is impossible to ignore.
As a boy, he was The Dwarf. That wasn't just his nickname, but the diagnosis by doctors convinced that he would never reach normal size. Even earlier in life, he was The Flea, seemingly so brittle that his mother had to be talked into letting him play soccer with the other 5-year-olds - and only then because the organizer promised to position him near the touchline so that if he got hurt and started crying, she'd be nearby.

At the age of 11, he was diagnosed with a growth hormone deficiency. Primera División club River Plate showed interest in Messi’s progress, but did not have enough money to pay for the treatment, as it cost $900 a month.
Messi left Rosario-based Newell’s Old Boys’s youth team in 2000 and moved with his family to Europe, as Barcelona offered treatment for his growth hormone deficiency.
Making his debut in the 2004–05 season, he broke the La Liga record for the youngest footballer to play a league game, and also the youngest to score a league goal

The man wearing Argentina's famed No. 10 shirt is storming into the World Cup in South Africa apparently bent on testing the adage that no player is bigger than his game. When the tournament begins June 11, Messi won't be up against the best defenders on the planet as much as he will the greatest players to walk it, ever.

Messi's recent performances with his club, Barcelona, have jostled even pundits weary of quadrennial claims that the next Pele has arrived or next Maradona. To listen to the roar, you wonder how long before some ask: Is Messi really the next Pele, the next Maradona ... or were they the prequels to Messi?

One former Argentina coach was so taken by a Messi goal that he recommended they immediately close down the stadium. The current Argentina coach, who happens to be Diego Maradona, says Messi "is playing kick-about with Jesus."

Religious metaphors, royal metaphors. They're just as outrageous as defenders trying to match Messi's speed, ball-handling and ability to read the game and create goals for himself and teammates alike. His size might even be an advantage, creating a low center of gravity that enables him to zig while defenders zag.

"The world kneels at the feet of Messi," wrote Marca, a newspaper in Spain. "First it was Pele', then Maradona - now welcome the new king."

El Mundo Deportivo, another Spanish paper: "There is only one God: Messi."

Make that "Messi-ah." That's what some fans and announcers call him.

Unlike his coach, Messi isn't one to boast. Fresh in his mind is what it took to arrive at this point, including prescribed daily growth hormone injections costing $1,000 to $1,500 per month. Sensing Messi might be a prodigy, his boyhood club in Argentina picked up the tab until the economy collapsed and Barcelona stepped in, uprooting the family to Spain in 2000.

Today, no ruler is needed to measure Lionel Messi. Lionel Messi is The Ruler.
Come on Leo……,come on La pulga…… :)