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Summary The striker has scored 45 goals for defending Spanish champions Barcelona this season.
Argentina and Barcelona star, Lionel Messi, launched his Facebook fan page and within seven hours some seven million fans joined it on the social networking website.Messi, who has won the World Player of the Year award twice, joined the social networking site and wrote as his first post: I am so excited From now on we will be more closely connected through facebook.He joins Barcelona team-mates Andres Iniesta, Gerard Pique, David Villa and Pedro and Real Madrid rival Cristiano Ronaldo as La Liga players with official fan pages on the site.
