For the year of 2000 – 2004
- Barcelona’s junior team
B and cadete
B & A teams where Messi played from 2000 to
2003. Here he scoring 37 goals in 30 matches.
- In 2003 Messi
was nearly released
from the club
because of financial constraints, but
his youth coaches convinced team
management to keep him. During that
time Cesc Fabregas was
released from the
team.
- On a record of five
different teams in 2003 – 2004.
He started one match in Juvenil B (one goal) and got promoted to Juvenil A ( here he got 21 goals in 14 matches).
- After then he
debuted for the FC
Barcelona C team
on November 29, 2003 and for
FC Barcelona B
on March 6, 2004. During the he
played for both teams and got 5 goals in 10 matches and zero goals in 5 matches
respectively.
- Messi’s official
debut for the first-team
on October 16, 2004, in a friendly
match against Porto.
- On 16 October 2004
Frank Rijkaard gave him his
league debut against
Espanyol when he was 17 years and 114 days old, become a youngest club player
to play in La Liga.
- On May 1, 2005 he
scored his first senior goal for the club against Albacete Balomepie when he
was 17 years, 10 months and 7 days old, becoming the youngest to ever score in
a La Liga.
- About his ex-coach
Rijkaard, Messi said “ I will never forget the fact that he launched my career,
that he had confidence in me while I was only 16 or 17”.
- During the season, Messi played
also in Barcelona B and scoring six goals in 17 matches.
Season
2005 – 2006
I have seen the player who will inherit my place in Argentinian football and his name is Messi.
”
— Diego Maradona on the 18-year-old Messi, February 2006
Barcelona announced an update to
Messi's contract for the second time in three months on 16 September. Messi obtained
Spanish citizenship on 26
September 2005 and was
finally able to make
his debut Spanish First
Division. On 27 September Messi's first
home outing in the Champions
League against Italian club
Udinese. Barcelona's Fans at the
stadium Camp Nou, gave Messi a standing ovation upon his
substitution, as his composure on the ball and passing
combinations with Ronaldinho had paid dividends for Barcelona.
Messi got 6 goals
in 17 league matches and scored 1
Champions League goal in 6. His season ended prematurely on 7 March
2006, when he suffered a muscle tear in his right
thigh during the second
leg of the second
round Champions League tie
against Chelsea. Rijkaard's Barcelona ended the season as
champions of Spain and Europe.
Season 2007 – 2008
- On September 22, 2007 Messi takes Barcelona to 2 – 0 Vs Sevilla in La Liga.
Season 2008 – 2009
Season 2009 – 2010
Once
he's on a run with the ball he's unstoppable. He's like a PlayStation. He can take advantage
of every mistake we make.
—
“Arsenal manager Arsène Wenger, after
Barcelona defeated Arsenal 4–1, 6 April 2010”
-
Barcelona manager Pep Guardiola said that Messi was probably the best player he
had ever seen after winning the UEFA Super Cup in 2009.
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Season 2010 – 2011
I feel sorry for those who want
to compete for Messi's throne — it’s impossible, this kid is unique.
— “ Former Barcelona manager Pep
Guardiola.”
-
On 21 August 2010, Messi scored a hat-trick in his first start of the season in
a 4–0 victory over Sevilla FC in the Supercopa de España, helping Barcelona
secure their first trophy of the season
after a 1–3 first leg loss.
-
Messi suffered an ankle injury due to an ill-advised tackle by Atlético Madrid
defender Tomáš Ujfaluši in the 92nd minute of their Round 3 match at the Vicente
Calderón Stadium On 19 September 2010.
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Season 2011–12
Season 2011–12
-
Messi started the season by lifting the Spanish Super cup with Barcelona,
scoring three goals and providing two assists in a 5–4 aggregate win against
Real Madrid. His vital interventions continued in the next official match
played against Porto when he scored again following a weak back pass from
Freddy Guarín before setting up CescFàbregas to give Barcelona a 2–0 victory
and the UEFA Super Cup, then the only official competition that remained for
him to score in.
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Season 2012–13
- During Barcelona's first game of the season against Real Sociedad, Messi continued his goalscoring run with a brace in a 5–1 win at the Camp Nou. Messi added another goal from a penalty in a 3–2 win against rivals Real Madrid in the first leg of the 2012 Supercopa de España in Barcelona on 23 August.
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Season 2013–14
-
Messi was nominated for the UEFA
Best Player in Europe Award, along with Cristiano Ronaldo and Franck Ribéry,
for a third consecutive year.
-
Ribéry won the award with 36 votes. Messi finished in second place with 14
votes, while Ronaldo finished in third-place with 3 votes.
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On 18 August 2013, Messi opened the 2013–14 La Liga Season with two goals and
an assist against Levante UD, as Barcelona went on to win the match 7–0.
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Season 2014–15
- Messi
opened the 2014–15 La Liga season for Barcelona by scoring twice in a 3–0 win
over Elche CF.
- In the
following match against Villareal CF, he set up Sandro's match-winning goal,
although he suffered an injury to an abductor muscle in his right hip.
Messi celebrating scoring a goal against Granada CF
in October 2014.
- On 27
September, Messi scored his 400th professional career goal, aged just 27, in a
6–0 home win over Granada CF; he later added a second, and also provided two
assists during the match.
- In a
post-match news conference he was lauded by his coach Luis Enrique, who stated:
"It's like Messi was touched by a
magic wand."
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2015–16 season
Messi
opened the season by scoring two free-kicks in Barcelona's 5–4 victory over
Sevilla in the 2015 UEFA Super Cup, on 11 August 2015; with these goals, he
equalled Cristiano Ronaldo as the highest scorer in UEFA club competitions,
with 80 goals. He was named man of the match. On 12 August, he was named one of
the three finalists for the 2015 UEFA Best Player in Europe Award.
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