Messi lifts his 5th FIFA player of 
the year award when he was awarded the FIFA Ballon D’or winner on January 11.
The Argentina captain named the man who gave him his Barcelona forst team debut Frank Rijkaard as the most important of his career despite becoming truly world class under Guardiola.
Messi started out as a left winger under Rijkaard before the Dutchman move the current FIFA Ballon D’or holder to the right wing to devastating effect.
The attacker would however becoming a goal scoring machine under Guardiola after he was move to a false nine role in the center of Barcelona’s three man attack.
” All the coaches I had at first left me things, but I think the most important thing in my career was Rijkaard,” Messi told MBC.
“If he had not decided to get me in the first team to train and play perhaps I had never reached the first team.”
“I always said [Riikaard] was, for me, a very important person because he trusted me, ” Messi added. “He made me play in the first team.”
the year award when he was awarded the FIFA Ballon D’or winner on January 11.The Argentina captain named the man who gave him his Barcelona forst team debut Frank Rijkaard as the most important of his career despite becoming truly world class under Guardiola.
Messi started out as a left winger under Rijkaard before the Dutchman move the current FIFA Ballon D’or holder to the right wing to devastating effect.
The attacker would however becoming a goal scoring machine under Guardiola after he was move to a false nine role in the center of Barcelona’s three man attack.
” All the coaches I had at first left me things, but I think the most important thing in my career was Rijkaard,” Messi told MBC.
“If he had not decided to get me in the first team to train and play perhaps I had never reached the first team.”
“I always said [Riikaard] was, for me, a very important person because he trusted me, ” Messi added. “He made me play in the first team.”
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