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"What I do is play soccer"

By Chad Nielsen
ESPN The Magazine

Monday, May 25, 2009

This article originally appeared in the June 1 issue of ESPN The Magazine. The best soccer player in the world is hungry. Walking through the steel belly of Europe's largest stadium, fresh off a Friday morning practice, Lionel Messi looks even smaller than his listed height of 5'6". The FC Barcelona forward added a line to his legend two nights before, against Real Betis, when he fended off shoulders, elbows and cleats, cut toward the end line from the right corner of the goal box, shrugged t ...

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