Lionel Messi:
Messi has won five La Liga titles, three Champions League titles, scoring in two of those finals, against Manchester United in both 2009 and 2011. He was not on the pitch as Barcelona defeated Arsenal in 2006, but received a winners' medal from the tournament. After scoring 12 goals in the 2010–11 Champions League, Messi became only the third player (after Gerd Müller and Jean-Pierre Papin)
to top-score in three successive European Champion Clubs' Cup
campaigns. However, Messi is the first one to win the Champions League
top scorer titles for three consecutive years after Champions League
changed its format in 1992.[14]
Messi was the top scorer of the 2005 FIFA World Youth Championship
with six goals, including two in the final game. Shortly thereafter, he
became an established member of Argentina's senior international team.
In 2006, he became the youngest Argentine to play in the FIFA World Cup and he won a runners-up medal at the Copa América tournament the following year. In 2008, in Beijing, he won his first international honour, an Olympic gold medal, with the Argentina Olympic football team. At international level Messi has scored 17 goals in 62 games.
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