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Muhammad Amirul Azzim Mohd Ruzki

Malaysian's football player 1	Early life 2	Club career 2.1	Barcelona 2.1.1	2003–05: Rise to the first team 2.1.2	2005–08: Making the starting eleven 2.1.3	2009–11: Sustained success 2.1.4	2012: A record-breaking year 2.1.5	2013–14: Messidependencia 2.1.6	2014–15 season: A historic treble 2.1.7	2015–16 season: Domestic success 2.1.8	2016–17 season: Individual success 2.1.9	2017–18 season 3	International career

4	Player profile 4.1	Style of play 4.2	Reception 4.3	Comparisons to Cristiano Ronaldo 5	In popular culture 6	Personal life 6.1	Family and relationships 6.2	Charity 6.3	Legal issues 7	Career statistics 7.1	Club 7.2	International 8	Honours and achievements 8.1	Club 8.2	International 8.3	Individual 8.3.1	Awards 8.3.2	Performances 8.4	Records 8.4.1	World 8.4.2	Continental 8.4.3	Spain 8.4.4	Argentina 8.4.5	Barcelona 9	See also 10	References 11	External links Early life Lionel Andrés Messi was born on 24 June 1987 in Rosario, the third of four children of Jorge Messi, a steel factory manager, and his wife Celia Cuccittini, who worked in a magnet manufacturing workshop. On his father's side, he is of Italian and Spanish descent, the great-grandson of immigrants from Marche and Catalonia, and on his mother's side, he has primarily Italian ancestry.[2] Growing up in a tight-knit, football-loving family, "Leo" developed a passion for the sport from an early age, playing constantly with his older brothers, Rodrigo and Matías, and his cousins, Maximiliano and Emanuel Biancucchi, both of whom became professional footballers.[6] At the age of four he joined local club Grandoli, where he was coached by his father, though his earliest influence as a player came from his maternal grandmother, Celia, who accompanied him to training and matches.[7] He was greatly affected by her death, shortly before his eleventh birthday; since then, as a devout Catholic, he has celebrated his goals by looking up and pointing to the sky in tribute of his grandmother.[8][9] "When you saw him you would think: this kid can't play ball. He's a dwarf, he's too fragile, too small. But immediately you'd realise that he was born different, that he was a phenomenon and that he was going to be something impressive." —Newell's Old Boys youth coach Adrián Coria shares his first impression of the 12-year-old Messi.[10] A lifelong supporter of Newell's Old Boys, Messi joined the Rosario club when he was six years old. During the six years he played for Newell's, he scored almost 500 goals as a member of "The Machine of '87", the near-unbeatable youth side named for the year of their birth, and regularly entertained crowds by performing ball tricks during half-time of the first team's home games.[11][12] However, his future as a professional player was threatened when, at age 10, he was diagnosed with a growth hormone deficiency. As his father's health insurance covered only two years of growth hormone treatment, which cost at least $1,000 per month, Newell's agreed to contribute, but later reneged on their promise.[13] He was scouted by Buenos Aires clu