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From a boy in Rosario to World Cup champion · 42 chapters, 24 moments
1987–2000
He was a head shorter than every boy on the pitch · and once the ball was at his feet, none of them could stop him.
1992–1998
The woman who first put him on a pitch is the same one his eyes seek after every goal: his grandmother, Celia.
1994–1999
One goal, one alfajor. A boy's scoring instinct was lit by nothing grander than a sweet biscuit.
2000
Keepie-uppies with an orange and a tennis ball · a short clip that pried open Barcelona's door.
2000–2004
With no paper to hand, a single line scrawled on a restaurant napkin carried a boy's destiny all the way to Barcelona.
His teammates thought he couldn't speak · until the ball reached his feet.
2004–2006
A legend knows his heir. Ronaldinho took the young Messi under his wing like a little brother · and handed him the torch.
2005
His long-dreamed-of debut for Argentina lasted less than a minute before it ended in a red card · yet that same year, he brought the world to its knees.
2007
The two goals Maradona scored against England in 1986, a nineteen-year-old Messi recreated within the span of just a few weeks.
2008–2009
The moment Pep Guardiola moved Messi into the 'false nine,' Barcelona went on to lift six trophies in a single calendar year.
2014–2017
Messi, Suárez, Neymar · three names compressed into a single initialism, MSN. Together they scored 122 goals in one season, and for a while they made the hardest game on earth look like recess.
2014–2020
A friendship deepened over a shared gourd of mate · on and off the pitch, Messi and Suárez were family.
2009–2018
Messi and Ronaldo. From 2008 to 2017, the two of them traded the Ballon d'Or back and forth, and for a decade football narrowed into their private duel. That duel is exactly what pushed both of them past the limits of what a human should be able to do.
2012
In 2012, Messi scored 91 goals for club and country in a single calendar year. He erased Gerd Müller's record of 85 · which had stood for forty years · and Guinness World Records made it official.
2017
They lost 0–4 in Paris. Everyone said it was over. Then, on 8 March 2017, Barcelona beat PSG 6–1 at the Camp Nou and completed the greatest comeback in Champions League knockout history.
A 92nd-minute winner that silenced the Bernabéu · and the iconic shirt, number 10, held up to enemy ground.
2009–2023
From his first in 2009 to his eighth in 2023, Messi has lifted more Ballons d'Or than anyone in history · eight of them. That number isn't merely a trophy count; it's an answer to the question of how long one person can stay at the very top.
2013–2016
Even the most beloved footballer on earth had moments that broke him. His muscles kept tearing, the whistles at Camp Nou turned cold, and in the end he had to sit in the dock of a courtroom.
2010
Maradona as coach, the captain's armband, and a 0-4 defeat. South Africa 2010 laid bare how heavy a boy's shoulders had become.
2014–2016
Three finals, three defeats. The man carrying a nation's hopes on his back kept stalling just short of a glory he could almost touch.
2018
'A god · who goes to the toilet 20 times before a match.' Maradona's barbs carried love and envy in equal measure.
2021
In the very stadium that had hurt him most, Messi finally lifted his first major trophy with Argentina. It was the night his tears, at last, meant something else.
2022
The story that began with that hollow stare at the trophy in 2014 finally found its ending on the sands of Qatar in 2022. What he lifted was the World Cup · and the completion of an era.
1986–present
From the moment he was born, one boy grew up wearing the label "the next Maradona." Stepping out of that shadow would take him an entire lifetime.
No one could picture Messi in another club's colors. In the summer of 2021, the unthinkable became real.
2023–2025
He turned down a €1.4 billion Saudi offer and chose the last-place team in the league. The pink shirt of Miami was waiting.
2023
Thor, Black Panther, Spider-Man. In Miami, his goal celebrations became surprise gifts for his three sons.
2023–present
One man's signature shifted the sporting landscape of an entire country. America began to feel the true weight of soccer.
"I've been Messi for 34 years, so I'm starting to get used to it. But sometimes… I just want to be an ordinary person no one recognizes."
1987–present
Beside the man who conquered the world stood a woman who had grown up on the same streets. Her name was Antonela.
2016–present
His name is Hulk. Messi's Bordeaux Mastiff was destined to be a giant from the day he was a pup.
2014
A byword for ruthless body management · yet as a teenager, Messi was a devoted soda drinker.
2013–2014
At the peak of his powers, he doubled over and was sick on the pitch · the human Messi, wrestling his own body.
present
A man who hates losing more than anything · and the PlayStation was no exception.
For all his wealth and fame, he still talks to his old Rosario friends almost every day.
The neighbours were too loud. So he · bought their house.
A superstar who roams the globe · yet refuses to speak English on camera.
2021–present
'For Messi, I'd go to war.' Rodrigo De Paul is Messi's bodyguard on the pitch.
Room B201 at Qatar University. The room Messi lived in for a month is now a museum.
When too many parents tried to name their babies 'Messi,' the hometown authorities stepped in.
Messi's way of sharing the joy of a World Cup·35 solid-gold iPhones.
2007–present
The boy who once nearly couldn't afford his own treatment grew into the man who extends his hand to sick children.