After Wednesdays match between FC Barcelona and Real Madrid, Messi has achieved one more record. He has lodged his name into another El Clasico record. He is now the player with most assists in the history of this eternal rivalry between the Catalans and the Madridistas.

As you know Barcelona overcame the barrier of Real Madrid in two matches. In the first match Messi wasn’t at his best but still made a great assist to Eric Abidal who managed to score a goal. Messi`s main plan was to fall little bit back so that Real Madrid defenders go up front too. As you know more than one defender are trying to cover Messi, so that makes free spaces for other Barcelona players.

The situation was almost same in the second match too, Messi made a great dribbling and more than two defenders tried to stop him – this created free space for Pedro as the Argentinian managed to give him a great assist.

Lionel Messi, who just got the third Ballon d’Or consecutively, is very productive player in El Clasicos, he is just 24 years old and has already got 13 goals and 10 assists.

Here is all 10 assists of Messi.

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Messi Napkin Contract

The Barcelona Football Club`s players Josep Maria Minguella has offered Messi the napkin when he signed the first contract with Barca in 2000.

So Now Catalans are going to save this napkin in the Museum.

Jordi Penas, director of the Museum of Barcelona, has accepted the offer and acknowledged that it is ”a museum piece.”  Minguella said that the  Messi is Gold and his contract should be saved in the best bank, Museum.

Now only need the approval of the Messi family.

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Lionel messi 2011

On Monday the 9th of January, the best player of 2011 year will be announced.
For a third year in a row, the Fifa Ballon d’Or – previously just the Ballon d’Or – is dominated by players who ply in Spain’s La Liga.
This year the first three nominees are the winner of Ballon d’Or of 2009 and 2010 Lionel Messi, last year’s second runner-up Xavi Hernandez of Barcelona again, and Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo – winner of 2008.
It is known that Real Madrid’s Mourinho and Cristiano Ronaldo will not be attending the ceremony of Ballon d’Or. They have decided not to go and prepare for a cup game that is scheduled for the next day. Zinedine Zidane and Emilio Butragueno will represent the club.
But who will be the winner of the trophy this year? Can Messi join the list of legends such as Johan Cruyff, Michel Platini and Marco Van Basten and become a three-time winner and only the second player after Platini to win this three years consecutively? We will know the answers in just one day…

Messi`s Ballon d`Or History:
2007: Third
2008: Second
2009: Winner
2010: Winner

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Barcelona Throphies

Barcelona is the champions of the world after winning 4-0 to FC Santos in Yokohama.  The FIFA Club World Cup turned a very easy game for Catalan Club, they netted four times without any problems. Lionel Messi scored double while Cesc Fabregas and Xavi Hernandez scored their goals too.

The Argentine’s performance was brilliant in the final match. Besides those two goals that he scored, he played very well and his help in winning this game was huge. Before he scored, he already had a shot saved by goalkeeper Rafael.

Xavi, who played his 601th official game for Barcelona, brilliantly controlled the ball before he gave a superb pass to Messi, who by himself conjured up a cheeky chip over the goalkeeper and opened the score.

Xavi then scored a goal himself, after controlling a good pass from Daniel Alves on the first touch and shooting with his second touch.

The third goal was scored after a chaos in Santos box caused by Dani Alves’s cross. Fabregas got the rebound near the goal post and it was very easy for him to score, so he did.

Victor Valdes played very well too, he managed to save the team two times in the game, while he blocked two shots of Santos.
And finally Messi completed the rout in the 82nd minute when he was played through by an excellent pass from the Brazilian Alves. Despite the poor first touch he still managed to skip around the goalkeeper and sent the ball into an empty net.
At the end of the match Messi got a special award from Toyota as the man of the match. Also he managed to repeat the record of Pedro(2009) who scored at least one goal in all the competitions that he participated.
As for the team, Guardiola just got his 13th trophy (form 16 possible) in 3 years, while Pele’s Santos and Cruyff’s Ajax got 12 during the same period of time. Here is all 108 big titles for Barca…

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Messi-Barca

Barcelona president Sandro Rosell says that Argentine superstar Lionel Messi will not leave Camp Nou as long as he is in charge at the club.

Messi, who is said to be the best player in the world, made his debut for Barca in 2004 and has helped the Catalan side to countless honours since then.

A host of clubs would love to have the Argentina international in their teams, but Rosell is adamant Messi will remain with Barcelona.

“At Barcelona, there are many things that are not for sale at any price, and Messi is a person who is just that for us,” said Rosell.

“As long as I’m the president at Barcelona, and he does not want to leave, Leo will continue to be a Barca player. If it were up to me, he would never leave the club.”

Messi, who has pledged his future to Barca on numerous occasions, is under contract at the European champions until 2016. But for sure, he will remain at Barcelona even after 2016, because he already is a Catalan Legend.

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Messi-Ronaldo

FC Barcelona’s superstar Lionel Messi believes that this weekend’s game between Real Madrid and Barcelona will be one of the most important game throughout the season. He thinks that it can define the European champions’ season.
Barcelona is aiming to lift the Primera Division cup for 4th consecutive time while Real Madrid is 3 points ahead of Catalan giants, and also Blancos have played a game less then Barca.
Messi believes that after the game at Santiago Bernabeu they should have more points than it does wright now. Argentine insists Barca must get a good result at Bernabeu.
“It’s vital we get a good result, “ said the forward. “it would set us up for the rest of the season.”
“We know what we’re capable of and how far we can go,” he said.
Messi is obviously one of the most important man in El Clasico clash and much depends on him. Besides, the Argentine loves to score goals at Bernabeu.
He has taken part in 15 matches between Real and Barcelona, and he already has scored 13 goals which is obviously amazing! He will try to improve that result tonight…

Here is all 13 goals scored by Messi in El Clasicos…
http://fanebi.tv/messi-in-el-clasicos/

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Riquelme and Messi

The legend of Boca Juniors – Roman Riquelme thinks that it isn’t easy to “use” Lionel Messi effectively. Riquelme, who has played in Argentine and in Spain, may be considered as an expert.
“I think that the Spanish international team needs to have Messi in their squad. And the Argentine international team needs to know that it isn’t Barcelona and they can’t play like Catalans…”

“Argentine must learn how to use Messi correctly, because we have the World’s greatest player in team but we can’t find a good place for him to have complete freedom and play just like he does in Barca. This is catastrophe.”

“With this method of approach to this case, we will not gain any success.”

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Today was a game between Colombia and Argentina that ended up with Argentina win 1-2. Finally Lionel Messi managed to score in the internationals…
An enterprising run from James earned a free-kick on the edge of the area, and Dorlan Pabon’s driven effort took a wicked deflection off Javier Mascherano to finish in the back of the net.

The equalizer came in the second half, right at the one hour mark.  Lionel Messi did well to open up the game in the Colombian final third, and after David Ospina spilled Jose Sosa‘s low cross Messi unexpectedly attacked and put the ball into the empty net.

It has been a while since Messi scored for Argentina and this was the main subject of critics towards Leo. In the World Cup Qualifying Messi has 2 goals and is on the fifth place in Top Scorers. Uruguay’s Suarez is on the first place with 5 goals.
In conclusion for Argentina he has 19 goals in 66 apps, but also has 20 assists.

watch the highlights of Argentina-Colombia on : http://fanebi.tv/argentina-2-1-colombia/

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Messi

Pep Guardiola’s 200th match in charge of Barcelona was celebrated with a 4-0 win over Viktoria Plzen in Prague this evening, as the European champions qualified for the knockout stages. Lionel Messi scored another hat-trick and he broke the 200-goal barrier.

As the game started in Prague, it was already clear that Barcelona would be in charge of it. They should have been given a penalty on the 12th minute after a foul on Cesc Fabregas, but the referee didn’t think so. But after 10 minutes Marian Cisovsky fouled on Lionel Messi in the box and he was sent off. Messi opened the score with nice shot from the penalty spot.

After the goal Barcelona kept attacking Plzen and they had some great moments. Messi could score his second but the keeper played well and made a good save. But later Messi scored the second goal of the game. He played a nice one-two with Adriano and got the return pass in the box, from where he took a shot and Pavlik, the keeper could do nothing.

In the second half Barca had some more moments.  Fabregas nearly added a third with a delicate chip that drifted just wide and Messi’s free-kick was saved by the keeper. Later Barca had a great chance to score again, on the counterattack Thiago Alacantara flicked a header over Pavlik but onto the crossbar.
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Lionel Messi

Fabregas made it 3-0 on 71 minutes with a rare headed goal. It was difficult for Fabregas to miss such was the quality of Isaac Cuenca’s cross from the right-hand side. Messi then completed his hat-trick with a well taken finish after rounding Pavlik. Barca’s defender Gerard Pique made a great back-heel pass to Messi who scored his hat-trick.

From now on, in all competitions the Argentine genius has 22 goals and 11 assists in just 17 games.

The match finished 4-0 and this means that Barcelona has qualified to the knock-out stage even though they still have to play two group games. So now Guardiola can let players have rest during champions league games and let them concentrate on domestic league.

You can see the Video of the game here: http://fanebi.tv/

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