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Time magazine, one of the most prestigious in the world, including the Argentine in your shortlist of candidates

Where is the line of Lionel Messi? You may not know it himself. Meanwhile, Barca continues to break records as you will be working some idle Tuesday. Therefore, for achievements, titles and how to get in his club, the club, the TIME magazine, arguably the most recognized and important in the world, included among the candidates to join the list of 100 most influential people in 2012.

Arguably, the inclusion of players is exceptional, but not athletes. The Federer, Djokovic, Nadal, Bolt or Formula drivers are common in this annual list, but this year it´s the turn Messi and, for example, Jeremy Lin, among others. A further list will be made by Lady Gaga, Obama, Hillary Clinton, Mark Zuckerberg, etc. The prestigious publication, curiously, Pele warns that his throne as the best ever in doubt with the arrival of Messi: "Beware Pele. Messi may be the best footballer of all time." Visitors have until April 6 to vote for their favorite character, which will complete the list of 100 characters compiled by the editors of the magazine.

Messi first words after beating the record for goals of Caesar have been retained by the newspaper Olé. "I´m very happy. Never dreamed of being the top scorer in the history of the club. I would not have achieved this without the help of my teammates. "

Messi first words after beating the record for goals of Caesar have been retained by the newspaper Olé. "I´m very happy. Never dreamed of being the top scorer in the history of the club. I would not have achieved this without the help of my teammates. "

Messi, Barcelona found all the help and support I needed and ended up exploding. "I always wanted to return to Barcelona all you gave me. We are proud to be part of the club history. "

Messi eluded keep one of the 234 goals he has scored Barcelona shirt. "My best goal? I do not know ... Just finished the game, the first thing I did in Barcelona, as the last, as many others, are all important to me. "

And when fellow Ole told her the expectations that had awakened in Argentina, said: "I am glad that in my country are happy for me."

Five goals from Argentine genius, which devours and destroys records adjectives, and two of Tello, electrical, initialed by the rout of Barca played with Leverkusen pleasure disappeared.

Someday I will stop playing and start to remind you. Someday we will tell those who come behind us we saw him play. We will try to tell them and cost us a flood of adjectives but surely we will draw a smile. Consider the story as it happens is one of those rare luxuries of sport, see one of the best ever invented break records as football. Leo Messi is a player pluperfect, unique, great. Wonderful sweeping motion and sets rival parties in our retinas. Someday we will say, I actually say: Do you remember ...? What about ...?

Do you remember the 7-1 at Bayer Leverkusen? Leo Messi scored five goals and did not even seem extra-motivated, on one of those days when you play with knives in their eyes. No pressure like a madman or uncheck a million shot. This time was limited to fun, the end of the day what you always do, and fiddling with Leverkusen as a cat with a ball of wool. Sometimes distracted, with a lopsided grin and almost ironic. Against the onslaught of controversial fights, debates, referees and renewals: Messi. And Messi, Messi, Messi, Messi. Five goals for yet another riveting display of a player better than everyone else. The first a beautiful spoon placed the ball on one side of Leno, the third just returned from a luxury break with Vaseline ... with the right. Control, look at the goalkeeper, the frozen time and a touch of magic ball. We must add another opportunist and two whips across the edge of the area, house brand: Leo Messi. Records, devoured rivals, poetry ...

And the numbers ...: Messi sum twelve goals in the Champions League and even the best historical record is the first player to five goals in European Cup for over thirty years and is seven goals of Caesar, the last barrier to be the best striker of Barcelona. Ever. For all comparisons and all measures of Messi have that scale, that last wall: forever.

Party there is little to tell. That Barcelona had a great time and it´s contagious. Leverkusen came out with the minimum decorum went down the drain path of a second time when a lamb was slain, a team of Champions knockout improper and the old legend of German football. But a team, remember, he left in the ditch at Valencia, which had won clearly Bayern in the Bundesliga. Balance of the tie: 10-2 thanks to a goal in extremis Bellarabi. Or makeup. Leno conceded seven, saved a few more and the Leverkusen left without bothering too much and not daring to, as in the first leg, fighting for the shirt to Messi, the sin that cost him the bench this time Friedrich.

The best of Barcelona, ​​who had a ticket to the quarter in his pocket before playing, was that what and who is recalled, he took off for a while the smell of controversy and the troubles of the League, who played football great and as only he plays. Iniesta was superb, low to Xavi and Cesc sharp. The three together, with Mascherano and Busquets of bodyguards and in partnership with Messi and Alves, wove a tapestry of passes that went round the Camp Nou from top to bottom: Barcelona. Leverkusen went cracking, crack crack, clear to uncheck, wall to wall. Twenty minutes after kick conceded the first goal and chose to sleep, stop suffering.

The other memory is for the Farm and in a gray day in search of Peter himself, another exhibition of Tello, who lives with the muses of face and optimum physical energy. He entered with rival surrendered and broke the left wing. Like thunder, generated a ton of arrivals and scored twice with these shots dried, angled ceilings and he honed Henry and he is doing his.

Nothing more, the referees will arbitrate, Guardiola has not yet renewed, the distance in the league is still ten points, the injuries continue to plague the team ... but suddenly everything seems to matter little, it will be okay and that everything is in the rearview mirror. In that there is some magic in that there is a lot of Leo Messi.

The former French footballer was awarded the `Facchetti´ from `La Gazzetta dello Sport´ Platini was very critical of Sepp Blatter, FIFA president

The Frenchman Michel Platini, now president of UEFA, said Tuesday that Messi "get over" his record of "three consecutive Golden Balls," which has held since his days as a Juventus player.

"Messi (which has two Golden Balls) will surpass my record. I did the best I could, but times have changed: he came to Barcelona with 13 years, I only Juventus with 27," he said in an interview to the newspaper Italian sports `La Gazzetta dello Sport´ before receiving the award `Facchetti-Lo good of Football´, which delivers this journal.

Platini, 56, was highly critical of Sepp Blatter, FIFA president, who said he "rejected the idea" of arbitrators goal, "because it was not his idea."

"Football must be human, not technological. The arbitrators should be helped when they are wrong. After 40 years of life dedicated to football I thought that an arbitrator is not enough, and two assistants behind the goal can help," he said.

"The experiment" of putting two goal referees who "existed in the 20´s in Spain," he said, was introduced first in the group stage of the Europa League in 2009, and until now, "goes well" , as recognized in `La Gazzetta dello Sport.

Affordability

Football leader proclaimed that there should be a "financial fair play" between the clubs and banks, because otherwise, "Many teams would disappear or be ruined." "European football has lost millions. The banks have to stop lending money to millionaires while people are dying of hunger. Financial fair play has an ethical value," he said.

However, UEFA said it could not do much to remedy this situation because "the income in each country were different and depended on national law."

Platini also insisted that football is "first and foremost a game," and must "return" to its essence as a sport and not as a business, because that "children who do not fall for the ball to them."

Illegal gambling

The exfutbolista described as "tremendous" the problem of illegal betting and reloaded against countries for "doing law" about it.

"The stakes are a tremendous thing worse than racism or violence, which are two issues unrelated to football. To bet on an outcome, you have to have two accomplices, or players or the referee," said Maradona.

Platini concluded refuting the idea that there is doping in football, as no sport has "many controls" like this.