The Birth of the Legend: Twentieth Anniversary of Leo Messi's Debut with FC Barcelona

The FC Barcelona changed his history like club a 16 November 2003. That day, in Port wine, ingresó to the field Lionel Andrés Messi for the first time like player of the first Barcelona team and marked a before and an afterwards in the Catalan entity, in addition to doing it of course all over the world of the football. In a friendly in front of the lusos, the rosarino ingresó near of the minute 80, completing like this a big 'travel' that initiated in the Masia with 13 years and finished, unfortunately, in the summer of 2021 with his bitter exit of the City Condal.

With that remembered second equipación of the Barça of the 2003/2004, and with the dorsal 14 to the back, Messi substituted to Fernando Navarro in Do Dragâo the day of the inauguration of the new stadium of the Carry. From that day the Argentinian showed that all the comments that came producing in the Barcelona quarry were a reality when showing some questions of 'crack' with his hardly 16 years.

We leave you with the moment of the change. Happy Wednesday! pic.twitter.com/uk5fcjkyjk

— FC Barcelona (@FCBarcelona_is) November 16, 2022

Messi and a process of growth frankly indetenible

The míster of that moment, the Dutch Frank Rijkaard seemed to know very well the process that had to follow Leo and trusted to give him his first minutes in that friendly for began to feel already near of the first team, although certainly his debut would arrive already in the 2004, some 11 months afterwards. However, the arrival of Messi to the first team 20 years ago did not do but show the big work of the Barça in the Masia and his confidence in the talent of the players that formed, to weigh even of not being Spanish or Catalans, like the case of Leo.

20 years after that debut of the '10' Argentinian seems to remain clear that the history has written 'alone'. Leo Messi is considered the best player of all time and, obviously, the best footballer that has dressed the Barcelona T-shirt of the Barça. His numbers, so much individual like communities, confirm it of form rotunda, although the history between both parts does not go to conclude of the form that many expected to measure that were happening the years.

The career of Messi in the Barça was simply inigualable

Finally, the champion of the world contested 17 seasons defending the colours of the first team of the Barça. In all these years, contested 778 parties, turning into the player that more has defended the T-shirt culé, marking the absurd quantity of 672 goals, with a ratio of 0,86 goals by party, in addition to winning all what can win in the world of the football like footballer of the Catalan club.

From that debut in Port wine until his course recently more than two years, the list of winners of Messi with the Barça closed with 10 Leagues, four Champions League, seven Glasses of Rey, eight Supercopas of Spain, four Supercopas of Europe and three World-wide of Clubs of the FIFA. Besides, the Argentinian star also has in his can eight Balloons of Gold -seven of them like culé- and six Boots of Gold like the maximum goleador of LaLiga, as well as several three individual prizes like better player of the year in Europe.