Lionel Messi is often called the best player of alltime. He holds 46 titles, including one World Cup and four European ChampionLeague titles and eight Ballon d’Ors, the highest individual honor in soccer. In2024, he won Major League Soccer’s MVP award.
But who is the player behindthese impressive stats? What makes Lionel Messi so great? This book takes adeep dive into Messi’s background, examining his beginnings, his struggles toreach the top, and even his thoughts on his soccer career. With Messi’s arrival to Major League Soccer (MLS) in2023, the most popular sport in the world experienced a revolution in the US. More starsfrom Europe, South America, and Africafollowed, and the matches were soon televised on more channels and platformsthan ever before.
The explosive success of MLS motivated Time magazineto name Messi the greatest sports figure of 2023. To fully understand how Messi influenced MLS, thisbook takes a dynamic and in-depth look into his playing history—his beginnings,his career successes, his own personal stories, as well as what other playersthink of Messi’s career. This is the amazing story of how one of the world’sgreatest soccer players revolutionized MLS.
