Steve

With a player as remarkable as Lionel Messi is difficult to know where to start analyzing his career. For any player to score over 100 goals in a professional career is a real achievement. To score over 200 goals you are talking about a very special player. Over 300 is usually reserved for a once-in-a-lifetime … Read more

Did you know one of the keys to Barcelona signing a 12-year-old Lionel Messi in December 2000? An orange. How do a citrus fruit and the question ‘how many juggles can Messi do?’ fit together in this article? All will be explained in the next few minutes… How Many Juggles Can Messi Do? The total … Read more

Probably one of the facets of Lionel Messi’s game we pay the least attention to is his aerial ability. We know all about his incredible goalscoring record, his dribbling ability, passing range, and even his pace, but something people rarely ask is ‘how high can Messi jump?’. I mean why focus on that when he … Read more

Trying to work out the answer to the question ‘how many records does Lionel Messi hold?’, is a thankless task! He holds so many! As an example of this, a few days ago I wrote a post that dealt with the question ’what is the most number of goals Messi has scored in one match?’. … Read more

I know it is a bit of a strange question to ask, ‘what kind of education did Lionel Messi have?’, but it is something I was pondering yesterday. We know so much about Messi’s life on the pitch and his supreme talent, but there are other parts we know very little about. I mean I … Read more