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Lewis Ambrose·22 February 2019
🎥 Messi's first UCL masterclass was 13 years ago today
🎥 Messi's first UCL masterclass was 13 years ago today | OneFootball
A Champions League knockout stage game away against José Mourinho’s Chelsea, no place for your average teenager to start. But Lionel Messi was no average teenager.
Wearing the number 30 shirt, the Argentine delivered his first truly great European performance on this day in 2006.
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His Champions League debut had come two years before, against Porto, but this was arguably the making of him on the European stage.
Chelsea left-back Asier Del Horno, who couldn’t handle the Argentine, saw red.
The rest of us saw glimpses of Messi’s future.
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