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Barcelona on Thursday confirmed Lionel Messi will leave the club after turning down a new deal at the Nou Camp.
Here is a look at some of Lionel Messi’s finest moments with Barcelona, for whom he played 788 games before it was announced the global star would be leaving on Thursday.March 10, 2007, a 3-3 draw in La Liga at home to Real Madrid. Two left-footed strikes from the mesmerising Argentine starlet Messi brought Barcelona back into a game where Ruud van Nistelrooy had plundered a 2-0 lead at the Nou Camp for arch-rivals Real Madrid. But Messi’s cheeky 90th minute equaliser after stealing the ball form Sergio Ramos made the then 19-year-old and his deadly finishing the talk of the town.Messi was at the heart of three of the goals that saw Madrid slip to their bitterest home defeat ever to Barcelona in a painful 6-2 lesson.
Barcelona were in trouble against Arsene Wenger’s Arsenal after a 2-2 draw in London when they fell 1-0 behind at home as the Londoners dared an attacking strategy that fell short as Messi ran rampant. Starting with a long range shot before conjuring two more from nothing and ending with a lethal low shot Messi again stole the plaudits and the show. He would score five against Leverkusen in a 7-1 win in 2012, a year in which he racked up 91 goals.
Champions League win at Wembley -May 28, 2011, Champions League final, a 3-1 victory over Manchester United in London.
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