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Lionel Messi
·FC Barcelonapeak value
Chapter two · timeline
A career, unrolled
FC Barcelona
2004
2013
2021
1 club · 0 transfers on record.
The visual archive · a museum of the game
Every photograph is a document
Not a gallery. Each image is a single entity in the Football Graph — dated, placed, credited and licensed, linked to the people and matches inside it, and reusable everywhere it belongs. Tap any photograph to open its record.
✦ Featured photographThe definitive image
Lionel Messi — the argument that ended the argument, still playing in 2025.
Open the recordThe journey · a life in places
Where the story happened
From a small town in Minas Gerais to the great tournaments of the world and back across the Atlantic — every stop is a real place, and every place opens what happened there.
The path2 stops · Rosario → FC BarcelonaTap a stop to open that chapter
The timeline · every turning point
Milestones
· signed
FC BarcelonaSigned for FC Barcelona
· valuation
Market valueAssessed valuation
Chapter four · statistics
The numbers, on the record
Ballon d'Or
Ballon d'Or wins — record
Goals · Barcelona
Goals for FC Barcelona — club record
Chapter seven · relationships
The web around a career
Every link below is derived from shared matches and overlapping spells in the Football Graph — not a hand-written list.
Chapter eight · historical matches
Nights that made the name
Every number is a door.
Every figure opens its sources — tap any number.
Footprint — the living record of world football.More chapters coming: career map · related stories