Lionel Messi is an Argentinean footballer; he is the captain of his national side but left Argentinean club football at a young age to purse a promising career in prestigious European football. He exhibits his considerable talents in the Spanish La Liga wearing his Barcelona Messi 10 home shirt.

He has won an impressive array of personal accolades and trophies to date, but will the Golden Boot come his way?

Messi has spent his entire club career with Barcelona progressing through the youth teams, making his 1st team debut aged only 16. If you support this world-class player shop for a Barcelona Messi 10 home shirt at Soccer Box today.

This season the design has returned to classic red and blue vertical stripes with a yellow V-neck collar. The clubs crest and Nike logo feature along with their brand new Qatar Airways sponsor logo.

Adidas manufacture the Argentina football shirt that the Argentinean team will be wearing as they attempt to beat the competition to be crowned World Cup winners a feat they haven't achieved since 1986.

The sky blue and white stripes of the home jersey is an iconic kit worn by some of the worlds greatest players such as Maradona and now Lionel Messi who will be hoping for World Cup victory.

Messi first appeared wearing the Argentina football shirt in 2005, he has since played in 2 World Cups and 2 Copa Americas. In 2007 the team finished runners up in the Copa America competition; in the other tournaments he has appeared in they have finished no higher than the quarter-finals.

In Brazil 2014 as captain Messi will be looking to rally his team toward a top place finish.

Argentina is in the South American CONMEBOL qualifying group. With 2 upcoming games left to play against Peru and Uruguay they have already guaranteed qualification.

Meaning we will definitely be watching Messi and his team wearing the Argentina football shirt in Brazil next year. At present in CONMEBOL group only Messi is tied with Luis Suarez as top goal scorer, a good indicator of his high goal scoring capabilities.

Messi's talent is truly highlighted by the large number of individual awards and trophies he has recorded wearing the Argentina football shirt, and at club level.

Some of these accolades include FIFA Player of the year and three consecutive FIFA Ballon d'Or awards, this is awarded to the player who is seen as the best performer throughout the year, in 2011 he archived nearly 50% of the vote.

Another indicator of his immense goal scoring rate is the fact that he has won the European Golden Shoe in 2010, 2012 and 2013. This is a European award given to the player who scores the most goals for his club.

Scoring 34, 50 and 46 goals in his Barcelona Messi 10 home shirt secured him these titles, he is currently the only player to have won this award on 3 occasions.

A similar award is handed out to the highest goal scorer during each World Cup, it is named the Golden Boot. The award was last won by an Argentinean in 1978, by Mario Kempes.

With Messi's outstanding form it seems that he is in with a reasonable chance of securing the award during Brazil 2014 when we will see him captain the players wearing the Argentina football shirt.

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