Messi

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 Argentia their first silverware in twenty-eight years by beating Brazil on their home soil to win the Copa America, Messi endured a difficult first season in Paris. A saga filled with financial turmoil, presidential machinations, and broken promises, Guillem Balague''s unprecedented access to Messi''s inner circle has allowed him to reveal all in this newly updated edition of Messi , an authoritative and compelling account of an enigmatic footballing genius. ''I can tell my grandkids one day that I coached Lionel Messi'' Pep Guardiola

Préface
The story of one of the greatest footballers of all time, Argentina's Lionel Messi. Updated to include the inside story of his dramatic transfer from Barcelona to PSG and his first season at the club.

Auteur

Guillem Balague is the author of Messi, Barça, Pep Guardiola, A Season on the Brink, and Cristiano Ronaldo. A key fixture of Sky Sports' coverage of Spanish football, he appears regularly both on live match coverage and on the weekly round-up show, Revista de la Liga. He is also the UK Correspondent for AS, the Madrid-based Spanish sports newspaper, and El Larguero, Spain's most popular sports radio show. His work appears regularly in The Times and in Champions magazine, where he writes a regular column on international football.

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Texte du rabat

"Updated to include Messi's first season at PSG. The story of the 2022 World Cup Champion and one of the greatest footballers of all time, Argentina's Lionel Messi. 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. Guillem Balague 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"--Publisher's description.