The story of the 2022 World Cup Champion and one of the greatest footballers of all time, Argentina’s Lionel Messi.<\/p>\n
‘I have seen the player who will inherit my place in Argentine football and his name is Messi’ Diego Maradona<\/p>\n
On 10 August 2021, Lionel Messi’s beautiful Barcelona fairy tale came to an end as he completed a dramatic move to Paris Saint-Germain. Despite flourishing in the blue and white of the national side, delivering Argentina their first silverware in twenty-eight years – beating Brazil on their home soil to win the Copa America – Messi endured a difficult first season in Paris.<\/p>\n
Guillem Balague has had unprecedented access to Messi’s inner circle including the player his coaches, team-mates and family. From tracing the origins of Messi’s precocious talent in Rosario, Argentina, to chronicling his peerless seventeen-season career at Barcelona, and his tumultuous Parisian adventure, Guillem presents an authoritative and compelling account of an enigmatic footballing genius.<\/p>\n
‘I can tell my grandkids one day that I coached Lionel Messi’ Pep Guardiola<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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