After winning the Goal 50 - an award from goal.com given to the 50 best players in the world - for the fourth time, Goal.com released a previously unseen footage of a 12-year-old superstar in the making terrorizing defences.
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This goal sees a young Messi collect the ball on the edge of the box, and uses a move we've so many times in the intervening years, skins the defender and rifles the ball into the back of the net. Newell's Old Boys in Argentina had a star in the making, and the scariest thing about watching this is how little Messi has changed.
He almost looks the exact same player now as he did 16 years ago.
