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Category:Biography & AutobiographyBiography & Autobiography - SportsmenBiography & Autobiography - Sportsmen
Publisher: Seven Dials Uk | ISBN: 9781399605809 | Pages: 736

UPDATED TO INCLUDE MESSI S FIRST SEASON AT PSG The story of one of the greatest footballers of all time, Argentina s Lionel Messi. I have seen the player who will inherit my place in Argentine football and his name is Messi Diego Maradona On 10th 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 América - Messi endured a difficult first season in Paris. Guillem Balagué has had unprecedented access to Messi s inner circle including the player himself: 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. I can tell my grandkids one day that I coached Lionel Messi Pep Guardiola

About the Author

Guillem Balague is a Spanish football journalist, prizewinning author and pundit, first for Sky Sports and now for BBC Radio 5 Live. He is the author of A SEASON ON THE BRINK - A PORTRAIT OF RAFA BENITEZ S LIVERPOOL (2006); the first biography of PEP GUARDIOLA (2012); MESSI (2013); CRISTIANO RONALDO (2015), the Football Book of the Year at the Cross Sports Book Awards; and the bestselling Brave New World - INSIDE POCHETTINO S SPURS (2017). He is chairman of non-league Biggleswade FC, and lives in Hitchin in Hertfordshire.