JMessi wins the Golden Ball award for the best player of the World Cup tournament. June 2014 - A Spanish state prosecutor asks the judge to drop the tax fraud charges against Messi, but not his father. May 2014 - Signs a new contract with FC Barcelona for a reported annual net of €20 million ($27 million). MaScores a hat-trick (three goals during a game), to become FC Barcelona’s all-time leading scorer with 371 goals, eclipsing the record set by Paulino Alcantara, who scored 369 goals. SeptemMessi and his father testify in a Barcelona court in a preliminary hearing over allegations they defrauded Spanish tax authorities of more than $5 million. JProsecutors in Barcelona tell CNN that Messi paid €10 million ($13 million) in taxes to cover the tax period 2010-2011, but efforts to prosecute him for alleged tax fraud from 2007 to 2009 are still ongoing.ĪugMessi and his father, Jorge Messi, make a “reparatory” payment of €5 million ($6.6 million) to Spanish authorities for allegedly committing tax fraud between 20. Messi denies all allegations of wrongdoing. The complaint alleges that Messi and his father, aiming to lower their Spanish tax bill, sought to manage the player’s lucrative income from image rights through shell companies set up overseas. June 2013 - Prosecutors in Barcelona file tax fraud charges against Messi and his father for the period between 20. MaMessi is announced as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador.Ģ011-2012 season - Sets the all-time record for most goals scored in a single season for a major European football league, with 73 goals. Barca wins 1-0.Ģ007 - Establishes the Leo Messi Foundation, working to improve access to education and health care for children.Īugust 2008 - Leads Argentina’s soccer team to a gold medal at the Summer Olympics in Beijing. OctoMakes his official debut for FC Barcelona against Espanyol. NovemMakes his team debut, as a replacement in a friendly match against FC Porto. Won the European Golden Shoe award six times: 2009-10, 2011-12, 2012-13, 2016-17, 2017-19.ġ995-2000 - Plays for the local club team, Newell’s Old Boys, in Rosario, Argentina.Ģ000-2003 - Signs with FC Barcelona and works his way up through Barca’s youth squads. Winner of the Ballon d’Or, or footballer of the year, a record seven times: a record four consecutive years (2009-2012) and again for 2015, 20. As part of the contract, FC Barcelona agreed to pay for Messi’s hormone treatments.Īll-time leading scorer of FC Barcelona and Spanish soccer league La Liga.
At age 13, he signed with Futbol Club Barcelona and moved to Spain. Goal of a lifetime? Messi weds longtime girlfriend in hometownĪs a young boy, Messi was diagnosed with a growth hormone deficiency.
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