Leo Messi is 24 years old on Friday and celebrates it in a season in which he has produced his best ever scoring stats this year, with 53 goals in 55 games for the team: 31 in the league, 12 in the Champions League, 7 in the Spanish Cup and 3 in the Spanish Super Cup. His previous best was 47 goals scored in the 2009/10 campaign.
Messi’s 12 goals matches equals Ruud Van Nistelroy’s dozen in the 2002/03 edition of the competition.
Up to this season Leo Messi had surprisingly never managed a goal in a Champions League semi final. But he put that right with two strikes at the Bernabeu on April 27th –the second being one of the goals of the season.
Messi also broke his scoring duck in the land that invented the game – and what better occasion to do it than in the Champions League Final at Wembley!
On November 20th 2010, Messi scored a hat trick in the 0-8 demolition of Almeria to take his league scoring past the hundred mark.
Four days later, he scored in the 0-3 win against Panathinaikos to pass the 150 goal mark in all competitions for the Club.
Last season, Messi played in 62 games for club and country and with the Copa America due to begin on July 1st, he looks set to break his record of 64 appearances in a single season.
With the Spanish Super Cup. League and Champions League titles won this season, Messi has now won a total of 15 trophies with the Club – 5 leagues, 4 Spanish Super Cups, 3 Champions Leagues, a Spanish Cup, a World Club Cup and a European Super Cup.
Factfile
Name: Lionel Andrés Messi Position: forward
Place of birth: Santa Fe (Argentina)
Date: 24-06-1987
Height: 1'69
Weight: 67
Debut: RCD Espanyol-FC Barcelona (0-1, League), 16/10/2004
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