Lionel Messi: the best of all time
Messi’s excellence at the field has been noticed by the world over through all his awards, honors and achievements that he has won with all his effort. Messi has won the prestigious Ballon d'Or five times. He has won it in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2015.Messi was honored with the European Golden Shoe three times in 2010, 2011 and 2012. He won the FIFA Club World Cup Golden Ball twice in 2009 and 2011. He was named as the European Golden Boy in the year 2005. He is part of the Argentine football national team that won the gold medal in the 2008 Summer Olympics.Messi had an amazing start in the 2015 season. He gave an amazing performance along with team mates Luis Suárez, and Neymar to score a total of 122 goals in all competitions that season, a record in Spanish football. Messi himself scored 58 of the 122 goals. Continuing his streak of success in 2016, Messi scored two goals and assisted the other two in a 4–1 derby win over Español at the Camp Nou in the first leg of the Round of 16 of the 2015–16 Copa Del Rey in January 2016. In February the same year, he reached his 300th league goal in a 1–3 away win. against Sporting Gijon