Talk:Lionel Messi

"From the age of 11, he suffered from a hormone deficiency and as his parents were unable to pay for treatment in Argentina, they decided to move to Barcelona, Spain. Shortly after arriving, Lionel tried his luck with a trial at FC Barcelona, despite being only 13 years of age."

His parents could not afford to pay for his treatment and Barcelona offered to pay his medical fees on the condition that they move to Spain and join FC Barcelona. Please change it.

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Why should be circumstancials Mourinho's insidious comments?.

It's like if i would write: "Parreira don't select Ronaldo becouse he's thinking that him is 'fat'"

It's something circumstancial and inappropiate.

Contract Date Error

His contract is up to 2014 ... Not 2010. Like the article though ;)

Removed sentence

I've removed the sentence:

'Messi was selected in the Argentina squad for the 2006 FIFA World Cup'.

The reason is that, as of May 14 2006, no list of the Argentina 2006 World Cup Squad has been made public. Remember Messi is still recovering from an injury which could complicate his participation in the World Cup. When and if he is included in such a list, we may reintroduce the sentence I removed again, if nobody minds. Cheers. Raystorm, 14 May 2006, 16:21h

Okay now we can reintroduce it. :) List was made public ten minutes ago, and he's in it. Check it out at: http://www.marca.com/edicion/marca/futbol/camino_al_mundial/es/desarrollo/649017.html. Raystorm, 15 May 2006, 22.52h

Chance to play for Spain's team

Is it true or a rumor that when Julio H. Grondona (AFA's president) knew about Spain's intention of inviting him to play for the Spanish team, he set a friendly match with another national team just to make Messi play (and making him prohibited to play for any other national team according to FIFA's rule).

Rhe br 14:51, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

Well, the rumer exists [1]. Nevertheless, Messi also stated that he always wanted to play for Argentina. Mariano(t/c) 08:38, 12 June 2006 (UTC)