Lionel Messi

Lionel Messi
Lionel Messi (full name Lionel Andrés Messi born June 24, 1987, Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina) is a Argentine football player, who plays for FC Barcelona of Spain. He is one of the biggest talents in the game.In 2005 he was named competitions best player and top scorer at the U-20 FIFA World Cup.

Lionel Messi’s first steps onto a soccer field were for a club in his neighbourhood, Grandoli, at the age of five. After doing well for Grandoli he moved to Newell where he proceeded to progress through their youth team. He then spent some time training with River whilst playing for the first team of Newell but his career came to a halt because of a hormonal illness. Messi's family chose to move to Spain in order for Lionel to get the right treatment.At the age of 13 Lionel Messi joined FC Barcelona and he quickly moved up the ranks and at reserve level he scored 35 goals in 30 matches - more than a goal per match. When he was 16 years old, Messi started playing with the Youth B team of F.C. Barcelona but he finished the season playing with the second squad of Barcelona, Barca B, who play in the Second Division B. When he made his first-team debut on 16 October 2004 at RCD Espanyol, he became the third youngest player to represent the club, aged 17 years, three months and 23 days. Among his nine appearances that season came his first UEFA Champions League start - at FC Shakhtar Donetsk - and his first goal a minute after coming on for Samuel Eto'o in the 2-0 win against Albacete Balompié.The Argentine teenage prodigy has recently extended his contract with Barcelona for the second time in three months so that it will now run until 2014 rather than 2010. This left-sided player is now one of the most promising young players at Barça.

2005 was a big year for super-talent Lionel Messi, he was named player of the competition at the U-20 FIFA World Cup in the Netherlands, he made his full debut for Argentina against Hungary and he made his debut for mighty FC Barcelona against Albacete – what a year!But life has not always been easy for Lionel Messi and his family. At the age of thirteen he and his family had to move from Argentina to Spain because of serious hormone deficiency that meant he didn’t grow as much as he was supposed to. His parents were unable to pay for the treatment he needed in Argentina, so they decided to move to Barcelona, Spain.

His Skills.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQ0vlbDwMdY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPh8blb6TLk

Pablo Aimar

Pablo Aimar would be my playmaker. What a talent! He is just so elegant and always has a trick up his sleeve to pull out at the right moment. Everybody will see at this World Cup what an amazing player he is - he can make the difference in our team.
I would be in midfield with these guys, and ahead of us would be my strikers: Gabriel Batistuta and Claudio Caniggia. I would have them because it was always really beautiful to see the two of them playing together. Batistuta was the best striker of the 90s, no doubt about that. He came from nowhere and scored goals like no other; I admire him a lot..

Caniggia, on the other hand, was the sort of player who would maybe only appear at some matches, but he had so many spectacular moments. And I will never forget his goal against Brazil at the 1990 World Cup. What a moment for all of us!
I only need one more player to make my perfect team and that would obviously be Diego Maradona. There is only one player who should be in every team, and it’s Diego. What he did in Mexico has never been done before, and nobody will come even close to that again. In those few weeks he was better than everyone before him and everyone since.

"People know what game Argentina play because we have Riquelme. It's a declaration of intent.”
The words belong to Jose Pekerman, and it is highly unlikely that any coach at Germany 2006 has built his side around one player quite as unreservedly as Argentina’s has around = Juan Roman Riquelme.
The 28-year-old's sudden elevation from bit-part player to key man can be attributed almost entirely to Pekerman’s appointment in September 2004, prior to which Riquelme had been considered fourth or fifth-choice for the playmaker role by Daniel Passarella and Marcelo Bielsa, both of whom subscribed to a popular view that his lack of pace prevents him from stamping his authority on matches.
Predictably, Pekerman contests this point vigorously. “Some say that Riquelme is slow, but he's not slow when he's in possession,” said the man who coached the Villarreal midfielder at youth level. “Anyway, it's the ball that should do the running, not the player.”
Certainly, few footballers at this FIFA World Cup™ could claim to be as adept as Riquelme at letting the ball do the work, with the player himself having outlined his primary responsibility as, “making sure that my team-mates can always find me to give me the ball."
The Arsenal manager, Arsene Wenger, is certainly a keen admirer of a player whose ability to dictate the tempo of matches is thought by many to be unparralled. "(Riquelme) is always able to slow the game down, then wait for a weak moment to kill you," was the Frenchman's verdict.
It is fitting, however, that the final word on this graceful, technically gifted and tactically astute midfielder should go to the coach widely agreed to be his number one fan.
"I've seen very few players with Riquelme's capacity to understand the game," says Pekerman. "He's one of those players who are disappearing from the game. Football is producing electrifying players, speed merchants. But it's losing the type of player who really knows what he's doing."

Guess What Song?????

Hear this and u will know...................
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQ8m08Vxpts