Argentina's Lionel Messi is used to being hacked down by desperate defenders but his statue in Buenos Aires has suffered even rougher treatment for the second time this year.

FC Barcelona and Lionel Messi signed on Saturday, November 25, a new contract that will keep the Argentine superstar at the Club through the 2020/21 season.

Reza Parastesh, an Iranian doppelganger of FC Barcelona footballer Lionel Messi, provoked a craze with his spot-on resemblance to the famous footballer, prompting lines for photographs and autographs as he arrived in Camp Nou to meet the real Messi on Saturday, ahead of a Malaga-Barcelona match.

Lionel Messi scored a hat trick, rallying Argentina to a 3-1 win over Ecuador and a spot in 2018 World Cup Russia next summer.

Argentine soccer star Lionel Messi has lost an appeal to Spain’s Supreme Court against a 21-month prison sentence for tax fraud.

Lionel Messi's injury-time winner kept Barcelona's hope for La Liga title alive, as the Catalan giants grabbed a 3-2 win over Real Madrid in a dramatic El Clasico clash at the Bernabeu.

Lionel Messi is sentenced to 21 months in prison for tax fraud.

Argentinean professional soccer player Lionel Messi puts an end to his international soccer career.