Argentina U-20 lionel messi

 Argentina U-20

Messi was offered the chance to play for the Spanish national side, but he declined, preferring to wait for the opportunity to play for the country of his birth. In June 2004 he got his chance, playing in an under-20 friendly match against Paraguay.
In June 2005 Messi played in the U-20 team that won the Football World Youth Championship in Netherlands, picking up the Golden Boot as top scorer with 6 goals, and the Golden Ball for the best player of the tournament. Despite his youth, Lionel was already being compared to Diego Maradona, one of the greatest football players of all time. On June 27, FC Barcelona renewed his contract until 2010, establishing a selling clause of €150 million (which happens to be 30 million more than his teammate in Barcelona, Ronaldinho).^[2][5
International debut
On August 4, José Pekerman called him up to the senior Argentine national team. He made his debut against Hungary being put in in the 63rd minute, but was sent off after just 40 seconds, because the referee Markus Merk found he had elbowed the defender Vilmos Vanczák who was tugging Messi’s shirt, and left the pitch in tears. The decision was heavily contested as Maradona even claimed the decision was pre-meditated.^[6][7] Messi then had his first real international debut on September 3 in Argentina’s 0-1 World Cup qualifier away loss against Paraguay playing the last eight minutes of the match.^[8] Ahead of the match he had said "This is a re-debut. The first one was a bit short"^[9]
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