TOP 10 INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT LIONEL MESSI

TOP 10 INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT LIONEL MESSI

Lionel Messi

1.Messi is the first person in history who has won four FIFA/Ballons d'Or.Another interesting fact is that he won these four awards consecutively. He is also the first player who won three European Golden Boot awards.

2.Messi is a very shy person which makes others difficult to talk him over the phone.Most of the important messages are informed him as SMS and he uses this SMS for communication as well.

3.Diego Maradona has declared Messi as his successor because of the similarity of their playing style.

4.Messi had tattooed his son's name "Thiago" and handprints on his left calf.

5.Messi was born in a middle-class family, his father Jorge Horácio Messi was a factory steel worker and his mother Celia María Cuccittini was a part-time cleaner.

6.Messi was diagnosed a growth hormone deficiency at the age of 11 and his parents couldn't afford his treatment as it was $900 a month

7.Messi started playing football at the age of 5. Barcelona was very impressed by his skills when he was 13, which made them offer to pay his medical bills and move his family to spain.

8.The National Team of Spain has offered him to play and he has declined it.

9.Messi is the founder of Leo Messi Foundation, which is an organisation that gives children treatment and education facilities. This foundation helps to pay for medical treatment, transportation and recuperation of children having major medical irregularities.

He is also the goodwill ambassador of UNICEF.

10.Messi shares his birthplace with Argentinian revolutionary Che Guevara.