Lionel Messi has become the FIFA Footballer of the Year of 2009. He has defeated Christiano Ronaldo and Kaka to achieve the feat. Earlier, he was voted the European Footballer of the Year 2009 and won the Golden Ball. It was a perfect year for Messi, when he had helped his club Barcelona to win La Liga, Spanish Cup and UFEA Champions League in a single season. On the top of that, he scored a goal in the extra time to help his team to win World Club Cup just a few days back. Messi is so successful while playing for his club; but at the same time, he is not that successful while playing for Argentina. Argentina has somehow scraped through the qualifying round to make it final round to be held in South africa in 2010. As a matter of fact, he looked a bit unsure and confused while he played in the qualified round under coaching of Ligendery Diego Maradona. Maradona was successful both for his country ( almost singlehandedly guided argentina to win the World Cup in 1986, before narrowly missed it in1990) and his club- Napoli ( He twice won the Italian League for Napoli). If Lionel Messi can win the world cup for Argentina in next year, he can be called the worthy successor of Diego. Of course, Messi is only 22 and he will play at least two more world cup and he sure has got the skill which can make us remember Diego. Lets hope to see more from him!
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