Ten years ago, on this day (16 October 2004), a 17-year-old Lionel Messi stepped on to the pitch for Barcelona in a La Liga game against Espanyol. Back then, he had the number 30 on his shirt. Signed by Barcelona at the tender age of 11, Messi would go on to inherit the no.10 shirt and break a number of goalscoring records. Ten years and countless individual awards and club trophies later, we take a look back at some astonishing numbers of the little Argentine magician.
Edited by Staff Editor