Lionel Messi
has won every individual award in world football. To name a few, Messi has won El Pichichi, The Golden Boot,
Balon D'or, European Player of the Year, and FIFA World Player of the Year. He is arguably the best player in the
world with Cristiano Ronaldo close behind him. Even at the club level he has won everything with Barcelona. This includes that amazing ‘08/’09
season where Barça won every competition in which they competed, completing an
unprecedented sextuple. The only
thing Messi has yet to win is greatest trophy of them all, the FIFA World Cup.
Messi is now
featured on a prestigious list for another award. However, this is no football award; it is Time magazine's Person of the Year
Award. Along with 32 people
including the likes of Steve Jobs, Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton, Lionel
Messi is in the running for the prestigious Time
magazine award. The writers and editors of Time
recognize what Lionel has done in world football for both club and
country.
Time magazine says, "Messi has
taken the most popular sport in the world to a new commercial level of success,
as shown by the fact that so many North American children go to school in a
Barça shirt." I truly believe this award will mean more than all of the
individual awards he has gotten so far.
By: Rolando Zuniga
Edited: Matt Sinacore 
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