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(CNN Spanish) - Lionel Messi sent a letter to Futbol Club Barcelona informing him that he wants to leave the team, a source close to the player confirmed to CNN.
Messi has been with the Spanish club for 15 years.
The news comes after Barcelona's humiliating 8-2 loss to Bayern Munich in the quarterfinals of the Champions League.
What you should know about Messi:
Personal
Date of birth: June 24, 1987
Place of birth: Rosario, Argentina
Birth name: Lionel Andrés Messi
Father: Jorge Messi, factory worker
Mother: Messi Celia Cuccittini
Marriage: Antonela Roccuzzo (June 30, 2017 - present)
Children: Ciro, Mateo and Thiago
Other data
As a child, Messi was diagnosed with a growth hormone deficiency. At age 13, he signed with Fútbol Club Barcelona and moved to Spain. As part of the contract, FC Barcelona agreed to pay for Messi's hormonal treatments.
He is the all-time top scorer for FC Barcelona and the Spanish La Liga.
Winner of the Ballon d'Or, or footballer of the year, a record five times: with a record of four consecutive years (2009-2012) and again in 2015.
He has won the Golden Shoe six times: 2009-10, 2011 -12, 2012-13, 2016-17, 2017-18 and 2018-19.
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Chronology
1995-2000 - Plays for the club's local team, Newell's Old Boys, in Rosario, Argentina.
2000-2003 - Sign with FC Barcelona and advance to Barça youth teams.
November 16, 2003 - Makes his first team debut, as a replacement in a friendly match against FC Porto.
October 16, 2004 - Makes his official debut for FC Barcelona against Espanyol. Barça wins 1-0.
2007 - Creates the Leo Messi Foundation, working to improve access to education and medical care for children.
August 2008 - Leads Argentina's soccer team to a gold medal at the Summer Olympics in Beijing.
March 11, 2010 - Messi is announced as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador.
2011-2012 Season - Sets the all-time record for the most goals scored in a single season for a major European soccer league, with 73 goals.
June 2013 - Prosecutors in Barcelona file charges of tax fraud against Messi and his father for the period between 2007 and 2009. The complaint alleges that Messi and his father, with the aim of reducing their Spanish tax bill, tried to manage the lucrative revenue from player image rights through shell companies established abroad. Messi denies all accusations of wrongdoing.
June 25, 2013 - Prosecutors in Barcelona tell CNN that Messi paid 10 million euros ($ 13 million) in taxes to cover the 2010-2011 tax period, but efforts to prosecute him for alleged 2007 tax fraud to 2009 are still ongoing.
August 14, 2013 - Messi and his father, Jorge Messi, make a "restorative" payment of 5 million euros ($ 6.6 million) to Spanish authorities for allegedly committing tax fraud between 2007 and 2009.
September 27, 2013 - Messi and his father testify in a Barcelona court in a preliminary hearing on allegations that they defrauded Spanish tax authorities out of more than $ 5 million.
March 16, 2014 - Scores a hat-trick (three goals in one game) to become FC Barcelona's all-time top scorer with 371 goals, eclipsing the record set by Paulino Alcántara, who scored 369 goals.
May 2014 - Sign a new contract with FC Barcelona for a net annual amount of € 20 million ($ 27 million).
June 2014 - A Spanish state prosecutor asks the judge to drop the tax fraud charges against Messi, but not against his father.
July 13, 2014 - Messi wins the Ballon d'Or award for best player of the World Cup tournament.
July 28, 2014 - A judge rules that the tax fraud case against Messi and his father will continue, despite a request from the Spanish state prosecutor in June that the charges against Messi be dropped.
November 22, 2014 - Messi scores a hat-trick to become the top scorer in the Spanish league with 253 goals, beating Telmo Zarra's previous record of 251 goals.
October 8, 2015 - A Spanish court rules that Messi and his father will stand trial on charges of tax fraud.
May 31, 2016 - The tax fraud trial begins for Messi and his father.
June 27, 2016 - Says he will likely retire from international soccer after Argentina lost the Copa América final to Chile.
July 6, 2016 - A Barcelona court fines Messi 2 million euros ($ 2.3 million) and also sentences him to 21 months in prison for tax fraud. Spanish courts officially reduce Messi's prison sentence to an additional fine of 252,000 euros ($ 287,000) in July 2017.
August 12, 2016 - Messi announces that he will play for Argentina once again, having declared in June that he would retire from international football.
July 5, 2017 - Barcelona and Messi announce a contract extension that will keep Messi at Barça until June 30, 2021 and is reportedly worth 565,000 euros ($ 645,000) per week.
January 13, 2019 - Scores his 400th goal in the Spanish league in his 435th appearance, extending his record as La Liga's all-time top scorer. Messi is the first player to score 400 times in any of Europe's "big five" leagues.
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June 2019 - Ranked # 1 on Forbes' annual list of the world's highest-paid athletes, with estimated earnings of $ 127 million.
August 2, 2019 - Messi is prohibited from participating in any competition for three months and the CONMEBOL Disciplinary Court will fine him $ 50,000. The punishment comes after Messi accused South American soccer's governing body of corruption, suggesting that the 2019 Copa América was rigged in favor of hosts Brazil.
September 23, 2019 - Win the FIFA The Best award for the most outstanding footballer of the last year in the world.
October 16, 2019 - Win the Golden Shoe for the sixth time
May 2020 - Ranked # 3 on Forbes' annual list of the world's highest-paid athletes, with estimated earnings of $ 104 million.
With information from Juan Pablo Varsky.
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