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professional soccer player who plays as a forward for Spanish club FC Barcelona and the Argentina national team. Lionel Messi is commonly known as “Leo Messi”. Messi was born on June 24, 1987, and is currently 30 years old. At the age 13, Messi moved from Argentina to Spain after FC Barcelona agreed to pay for his medical treatments. After that, he became a star and because of him, his club led to the championships. When Messi was a young boy, he always played soccer along with his two older brothers and their friends. When he was eight years old, he was called in to join the youth program “ Newell’s Old Boys” a Rosario based club. Messi was smaller than most of the kids his age in the group. Soon he was diagnosed by his doctors as suffering from a hormone deficiency that stopped him from growing. Messi’s parents decided on a regimen of nightly growth-hormone injections for Messi, soon it was impossible for his parents to pay hundreds of dollars per months for the medication. When Messi was 13 and he was offered the chance to train at a soccer powerhouse FC Barcelona’s youth academy, La Masia, and have his bills covered by the team. Soon…

and poor peoples around the world that is why many young player defines him as a role model. He broked to many records such as the first one to win five La Liga titles and has been named FIFA World Player Of The World ( The Ballon D'or) five times. Messi played soccer for the Grandoli, a local team coached by his father. At the age of 8 he played for Newell’s Old Boys. The group was so talented that in four years they only lost a single match in four years. Unfortunately, when…

When Messi was seventeen, in the 2004-05 seasons, he became the youngest official goal scorer in the La Liga. The La Liga is Spain’s highest division of soccer.(Rollin) Messi also played with Argentina’s victorious world youth champions squad in 2005 and represented the country in the 2006 World Cup.(Ghosh) Messi’s play continued to rapidly improve throughout the years and by 2008 he was the most dominate player in the world. In early 2009, Messi and his team Barcelona pulled off a spectacular…

Pay and Women’s Soccer: The Huge Difference Did you know that the US women’s soccer team has won four Olympic Gold medals and three World Cup championships in this decade and are consistently being paid less than the men, who have never won any major title? The fact is when it comes to soccer is that the US women national team are much better than their male counterparts and are still made to feel that they are less superior. How would you feel if you were the best at something at the highest…

direction, power, regulation, and control. These are all things that FIFA seemed to have in place, yet here we are with a great deal of corruption and football fans calling for reform. As the co-President of FIFA, I will help restructure an organization that will be free from corruption and that will restore the global soccer community’s faith in FIFA. The vision statement I would put in place as co-President is: “Changing the game. Changing the world.” While this vision statement is similar to…

There are many sports out there to play. They all have their history and every person has their own sport they like the most. One of these sports is soccer, and people might be surprised to know that it has the most viewers of any other sport. Soccer has grown to be the most popular sport in the world, and many things about the game of soccer have evolved, including the ball, shoes, and the rules of the game. Have you ever asked yourself where did soccer come from? Soccer has been around for…

names it goes by but this sport is much more than a game, it unites people all around the world no matter what color their skin is or what religion they practice or from what country they come from. Soccer is a way for different communities to get along with each other, to reconcile after a war or tragedy as this sport is all about love and respect for one another. Every time I step into a pitch i feel a sense of unity with everyone in that field teammate or not. Well, this is how the beautiful…

Born on the 2nd of June 1988 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sergio Leonel Aguero is a Argentine Professional Footballer who plays striker for the Premier League Club, Manchester City and the Argentina National Team. Before playing for Manchester city he played for Atletico Madrid and Independiente in Primera Division. He has 505 career appearances and 303 career goals thus far. The exceedingly skilled Sergio Aguero who was conceived by his name Sergio Leonel "Kun" Aguero is one of the famous…

amateur teams in his youth.”(Who is pele?) Pele had to take up jobs from an early age to help his parents but after long days pele would get lessons from his father and would enjoy playing soccer and got into some good amateur clubs. Pele was “Blessed with the talent for the game and a style of his own, he found himself a place at the Bauru Athletic Club juniors,”(Who is pele?) Clearly from an early age he was already developing a new style of play that would change the style of soccer forever.…

THE 2015 FIFA SCANDAL ON CORRUPTION Prepared for Professor Campbell Robert Morris University Prepared by Aminat Soyege June 29, 2015 The 2015 FIFA SCANDAL Contents Executive summary iii INTRODUCTION iv Discussion 1 Stake holders 1 Resolution 4 Conclusion 5 Reference 6 Executive summary In mid-2015, the billion dollar nonprofit football association (FIFA) found itself in the midst of an FBI led investigation into corruption. At the of May 2015, fourteen people were…