The great Lionel Messi was called up on stage to lift the trophy he had craved for so much of his glittering and unparalleled career. At the other end of the podium were his Argentina team-mates Lionel Messi is The Best: it's official. On a night of pomp, power‑play and deliciously terrible tuxedos Messi won his seventh major player of the year award in Milan on Monday, a first Fifa Lionel Messi's representatives have rubbished rumors that the Argentine has agreed to join a club in Saudi Arabia after his contract at Paris Saint-Germain ends on June 30. Guardiola: Why Messi is the best . There are no prizes for guessing which player Guardiola prefers between Messi and Guardiola. The former Bayern Munich boss says the Argentine is the best player The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. Lionel Messi is an Argentine-born football (soccer) player who has been named the world's best men's player of the year seven times (2009-12, 2015, 2019, and 2021). In 2022 he helped Argentina win the World Cup. Naturally left-footed, quick, and precise in control of the ball, Messi is known as a Messi's Medical Journey. In 1999, the future greatest soccer player of all time sat in a doctor's office in Rosario, Argentina. Lionel Messi was just 11 years old and awaiting a diagnosis after over a year of tests (Caoili, 2012, p.41). He was 4 feet and 4 inches inches tall (Hawkey, 2008), and had not grown since he was nine (Thompson, 2012). The reasons why Lionel Messi can be considered the greatest footballer of all-time 1. He is an amazing goal and assists machine. Lionel Messi is dubbed the Goal Machine for a reason, and he's living up to the title. In La Liga, Messi holds the record for the most goals with 423 goals. Messi deserves immense credit for his role in leading Barcelona to the 2019 La Liga title. He has them on track for the same result this season in the wake of a stunning, late-game goal in a 1-0 victory over the Atletico Madrid. This is the type of galloping one-two sequence the football world has come to expect from Messi over the last decade CNN —. Manchester City manager and Lionel Messi's former coach Pep Guardiola has reiterated his belief that the Argentina captain is the greatest player of all time. Messi led Argentina to a Cristiano Ronaldo (L) and Lionel Messi [Shaun Botterill/Getty Images] from a teenag­er at Sport­ing Lis­bon to one of the world's best foot­ballers. Published On 15 Aug 2022 15 Aug 2022. U9JuE4E.