This time, let's take a look at the profile of GOAT Messi, a new dance in Miami, and his scoring ability. Hopefully this will give you a better understanding of Messi and his football.
messi in childhood
Born on June 24, 1987 in Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina, Lionel Messi is of Italian descent, born in Argentina, which has the most Italian descent. His great-great-great-grandfather was Italian, and his family became Argentinian when he emigrated to Argentina in 1893. His father was a steelworker, and his mother worked as a part-time cleaner. Messi has been close to soccer since he was young, and when his grandmother recommended him to watch a local youth game, and there was a vacancy, he started playing soccer in earnest by playing a great role in a game in which he appeared as a pinch hitter.
Messi, who joined the CA Newells Old Boys Youth Team with Rosario as an ointment at the age of 6, soon came into the limelight as a promising player, but at the age of 11 he was diagnosed with growth hormone deficiency, which put his parents through financial difficulties. He needed between 90 and 100 dollars a month to treat the lice, which his parents' physical labor couldn't afford. Afterwards, he received a scouting offer from FC Barcelona, and went through negotiations with Barcelona to accept it. However, he had to convince Newell's Old Boys for this, and he received an offer to cover all expenses for Messi's treatment. So Messi and his father moved to Barcelona. At this time, while negotiating with Barcelona, he had never signed a contract with a 13-year-old foreign youth player, so he could not give a definite answer regarding the contract. Later, Lexach signed a contract with Messi by writing a contract on the spot on a napkin.
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Messi, who has almost always been included in the TOP 3 along with Pele and Diego Maradona in the football media's rankings of all-time players, is evaluated as the GOAT of football after winning the World Cup. In the 06-07 season, as a 19-year-old, he won 3rd place in the Ballon d'Or and 2nd place in the FIFA Player of the Year Award, receiving attention. Since then, over the past 10 years, he has established himself as the world's best player, recording the most victories and individual awards of all time, including 7 Ballon d'Or, 7 FIFA World Player of the Year Awards, and 2 Laureus Awards. He is also overwhelmingly ranked first in indicators such as dribbling success rate, chance making count, and rating.
From Messi's debut to the 2015 season
Messi did not show the current look from the beginning. From his debut until the 2008-09 season, he was a winger with devastating dribbling and decent scoring ability. However, in the 2008-09 season, when Pep Guardiola took over as manager, his scoring power rose significantly, and then peaked in the 2011-12 and 2012-13 seasons. From the 2014-15 season, as Xavi Hernandez withdrew from the starting lineup, he actively participated in the team's build-up, demonstrating his skills as a playmaker who coordinates matches and creates chances. Messi holds the record for most assists in football history, as well as winning the IFFHS Playmaker of the Year award five times, which is the most record ever, surpassing Xavi's four awards. And he was recognized for his ability by winning the Best Playmaker Award in the 2010s. In addition, weapons such as free kicks have been developed and reborn as a complete striker. Despite becoming a dedicated free kick kicker from the 2014-15 season, Messi is ranked 6th with 64 goals in the all-time free kick scoring category.
In the 2008-09 season, Guardiola, who took over from Frank Rijkaard, carried out a team-wide reform to correct the sluggishness and lax team discipline of the previous season. The former main players Ronaldinho and Deco were let go, and the team was rebuilt around the midfield line of Messi and Xavi Hernandez, Andres Iniesta, and Sergio Busquets, who had already played a substantial ace role. These reforms have yielded good results. This season, Barcelona recorded a treble winning La Liga, Copa del Rey, and Champions League, and furthermore, in 2009, it achieved the first six crowns in football history. Of course, Messi performed his best as an individual, scoring 9 goals in 12 Champions League matches this season, and scored 23 goals and 11 assists in 31 matches in La Liga.
In the 2010-11 season, he led FC Barcelona and showed one of the most dominant seasons that a player can show in football history, which was rated as the best season of his entire career. This season, Barcelona reigned as the best team in the world with the tiki-taka tactic perfected by Guardiola. Midfielders Xavi-Iniesta-Busquets' passing ability and playmaking ability made this strategy possible. However, it was possible because of Messi's personal skills that he was able to show strong attack power even in this share football. In the 2011-12 season, he recorded more than 100 attack points in one season, recording a whopping 73 goals and 29 assists for the first time in European history, and scored 50 goals in a season for the first time in La Liga history. That year, Messi set a new world record and scored 91 goals, surpassing Gerd Müller's record of 85 goals in one year. In the 2014 FIFA World Cup, he led his country's World Cup runner-up and won the Golden Ball, but was criticized for not performing well on the national team. However, in the 2021 CONMEBOL Copa America, the evaluation changed as it swept the top scorer, assist, and MVP for the first time in football history. In the 2014-15 season, La Liga, Copa del Rey, and the UEFA Champions League were all won, achieving the treble once again following the 2008-09 season, and winning the Champions League top scorer and assist king, and La Liga assist king. This season, Messi showed his best performance by recording 58 goals and 27 assists in 57 games, and won various awards such as La Liga Best Player Award and UEFA Player of the Year Award, winning his 5th Ballon d'Or.
Messi's 2017 season to present
In the 2017-18 season and 2018-19 season, Messi filled Neymar's vacancy and achieved many achievements in La Liga, setting records such as winning La Liga for two consecutive years, top scorer in La Liga, and MVP in La Liga. This was also the period when Messi was the most influential and dependent on the team. Despite these achievements, however, the team was criticized for their poor performance in the Champions League. Since Messi is the player and captain representing the team, he cannot take responsibility in these areas, but it can be said that it is unfair to attribute excessive responsibility to Messi alone without considering the overall situation of the team. After the 2016-17 season, Barcelona's actual power has greatly weakened due to problems caused by the aging of key players. However, even in this situation, Messi led the league championship in every game and showed great performance by winning numerous individual awards such as the European Golden Shoe and Ballon d'Or.
In the 2020-21 season, new players such as Antoine Griezmann and Frankie Deyong quickly adapted to the team, reducing the burden on Messi, but Messi's portion of Barcelona's performance is still large. Also, as Messi left Barcelona, the team stayed in the Champions League round of 16 and stayed in the Europa League. This is a testament to the important role and contribution Messi had within the team.
Messi moved to Miami
Although Messi is now in his mid-thirties, he is still highly influential in the soccer game and is called the world's best soccer player, performing many roles such as scoring and playmaking. Due to this ability, he was also honored with a national team championship and a seventh Ballon d'Or award.
Messi is a player who has achieved almost all achievements, including club, national team and individual awards, but only Argentina's World Cup victory remains. However, in the 2022 FIFA World Cup, Messi played a great role and led his country to win the 3rd World Cup, and was evaluated as the best soccer player of all time, surpassing Pele and Diego Maradona.
Messi is a player who has little noise both inside and outside of sports, but he has been criticized for his lack of leadership as he ages. However, as these disadvantages also improved little by little, in the 2022 World Cup, his fellow players showed strong leadership enough to give their lives for Messi and led Argentina to the championship.
In the summer of 2023, Messi was scheduled to finish his career by finishing his life at Paris Saint-Germain and transferring to Inter Miami CF, a major league soccer club in the United States, which is a wasteland of football. However, Messi played an astonishing performance in every game, reviving the league's last team that was dying, winning the Leagues Cup, North and Central America's cup competition, and playing a big role in rebuilding into one of the strongest teams in North and Central America. There were also testimonies showing Messi's leadership and influence, such as his teammates following Messi to voluntarily participate in training at 7 in the morning.
Messi's dribbling skills
Messi is regarded as the best dribbler in football history, and the destructive power of dribbling, the types of follow-up plays that can be selected afterwards, and the power are unmatched by others. However, compared to his former teammates Ronaldinho and Neymar, Messi's dribbling is not accompanied by flashy foot talent. However, Messi has trampled on the best defenders in the world with his dribbling ability, which has reached the pinnacle of basic skills beyond faithfulness to basic skills. This kind of play is possible because Messi's understanding of dribbling is different from that of other players, and his physical ability also has the optimal conditions to implement such dribbling. Messi has a sophisticated upper body paint that instantly peels away defenders, precise ball control and stable first touch that does not allow the ball to deviate more than 70 cm from the center of the body, change of direction at irregular timing during psychological warfare with opponent defenders, explosive momentary acceleration and stable deceleration Even with the ability, constant deceleration and acceleration, it even has a knee that has not had an abnormality for over 15 years. In addition, Messi's pure power itself is considerably faster than the players who are said to be semi-skilled, and above all, his agility and technique to beat defenders in a narrow space are the highest ever. Messi's dribbling is not only 'speed', but also 'acceleration' is great, and it can be said that he has a stable 'deceleration ability' here. In addition, Messi has all the elements necessary for dribbling at the highest level, and has a high level of ability such as dynamic vision, direction selection, and tempo control. Messi's acceleration was measured on par with NFL speed star Jamal Charles, measured on the ball. Messi records an average of 8 dribbles per game with a 55% success rate, and shows more than this number of dribbles in every game. Messi is under pressure from opponents in the center rather than the side, and near the 2nd and 1st lines rather than the 3rd line, and even in these situations, he succeeded in dribbling.
Messi's height and physique might be considered a weakness by newcomers to football, but in reality, he has an amazing sense of balance and good fighting skills. His height is rather a strength, and unlike other players, his center of gravity is very low and stability is high. He is also stocky rather than short in his physique, which is why he doesn't get bogged down in fights with opposing defenders. His dribbling ability seems to clear the defender in YouTube or highlight videos, but if you look at the close-up videos, you can see him constantly getting kicked by the defender's feet, bumping into him, and advancing while overcoming the defender's interference with his tremendous speed and sense of balance. can see.
During his career as a player under coach Pep Guardiola, he worked hard on strict diet management and injury management, and the training from that time has continued to this day, and even though he succeeded in dribbling an average of 7 to 10 times per game, he was rarely injured and played in almost every game. I am playing full-time. This diet management and training made him stronger in physical fights.
What's unique about Messi is that, if possible, he doesn't dive. Not only does he rarely do simulation action, but he tries to keep playing as much as possible without falling even if he is fouled. This play is possible because of his excellent ball control and balance. He doesn't fall down even though he is tackled and checked for 90 minutes, and even if he falls, he looks at the ball again and gets up right away and runs.
For a dribbler, diving follows naturally to a certain extent, and there is a general perception that diving prevents injury to some extent. But Messi has the best dribbling skills among his active players and rarely dives, despite getting nasty fouls every game. Considering that he is a player who is intensively checked to the extent that there are videos of vicious tackles and body-checking, you can see how diligent he is.
Currently, his dribbling ability has come down from his heyday, but he still shows a concise look when needed. Although his speed has declined with age, the perfect know-how accumulated over 15 years of professional life and the ability to freely and quickly switch between deceleration and acceleration while still holding the ball tight to the body, and passing away defenders, still does not rust.
In the 2011-12 season, when Xavi and Iniesta were alive and focused on his role as a scorer, Messi set an unbelievable record of 91 goals, the most goals scored by an individual player in one year in football history. This is not only the most goals in one season, but also holds the record for the most goals in two seasons, three seasons, four seasons, five seasons, and 15 consecutive seasons. Also, it is surprising that despite playing primarily in the second line, he is scoring more goals than top strikers in the first line. Messi holds the Primera Liga record for the most goals in his career, and in the 2018-19 season, he won the European Golden Shoe once again as he became the top scorer in European leagues (36 goals), including La Liga. With this, Messi left a great record of being the first to win the European Golden Shoe six times.
Messi's shooting ability
There is a graph that visualizes the percentage of European leading strikers receiving support from their teammates during total shooting. The vertical axis represents unassisted shots, and the horizontal axis represents assisted shots. Based on the oblique line, whether or not the shooting was assisted by a colleague is distinguished. Through this graph, it can be seen that not only the scoring power but also the shooting leading to the goal was mostly created by Messi himself without the support of his colleagues.
Messi's scoring ability ranks second not only in the league but also in the Champions League's total goals and number of goalscorers. Also, on March 15, 2018, he scored his 100th goal in the second leg of the Champions League against Chelsea, marking his 100th goal in the shortest period in Champions League history. He also holds records such as scoring (26 goals).
Messi is perfectly equipped with both power and accuracy to score goals, and even in indicators showing goal success rate by distance, whether it is close to the goal, penalty area, or mid-range outside the box, all are significantly higher than the average of all players. And with a variety of shooting skills, the trademark half-beat fast shooting that sunk goalkeepers such as Buffon, Casillas, and Van der Sar helplessly, and a shot that runs from the right side outside the penalty box to the center, shakes the defense, and puts it precisely into the corner of the opponent's goal. , a roving shot that outwits the goalkeeper who came near the box, and a shot kicked as if passing into the corner of the goal.
Messi has a prejudice that his header ability is inferior due to his small stature, but he is only pushed out of the air, but he has sharp insight to read the ball in the air and has a technical and accurate header ability. In the 2008-09 season, he broke through Manchester United's iron wall defense and scored a header goal in the final of the Champions League, the culmination of 6 crowns. did
Even when Messi shoots with his right foot, his accuracy and power are as good as his left foot. He doesn’t often hit mid-range shots with his right foot, but he doesn’t score a lot with his right foot, and he scored a wonder goal in the first leg of the semifinals of the Champions League in the 10-11 season with his right foot.
In the 21-22 season when he moved to Paris, his scoring power dropped significantly and he recorded a career low, but this was due to his aging, which caused his shooting power and accuracy to decline, and Pochettino's tactical problems and transfer saga. this has influenced However, after Pochettino was sacked in the 22-23 season and Galtier took over as new coach, he is showing good scoring power, although not as good as he was in his prime. In his national team game, he scored 18 goals in 2022 alone, which is the highest goal record ever, exceeding his previous record of 12 goals set in 2012, when he was at his peak.
So far, we have looked at the GOAT messi. Was the last dance at the World Cup he said a sign that he would do a new dance in Miami? None of the existing players surpasses his record, and he is still called a legend, pouring out new records, and is on a march to rewrite the perspective of football in Miami and the area, which were barren for football. The fact that Messi's uniforms are out of stock is proof of his influence. How long he may remain a legend, but setting the period itself is meaningless in front of the goat.
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