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#2 Only player in history to have scored 10+ goals in 13 consecutive seasons
Lionel Messi onto the scene as a prodigiously talented teenager with his exploits at the FIFA World Youth Championship (now U20 World Cup) giving him global recognition.
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He had earlier made his Barcelona bow a year prior having joined the La Masia ranks as a very young boy with the club offsetting his medical bills to treat a hormone deficiency in exchange for getting him.
Since then, the Rosario born native has grown from strength to strength and become of the greatest players in the history of the sport.
Having initially found playing time hard to come by, Lionel Messi fully broke into the senior side in the 2006/2007 season, earning rave reviews for his hat-trick against Real Madrid in the El Clasico, which was among 14 goals he scored in La Liga that season.
It was to be the first time Messi hit double figures in the league and since then he has not looked back, with his current tally of 15 in the current season meaning that he has managed to hit 10+ goals in each of the last 13 seasons consecutively in La Liga.
