Jurgen Klinsmann is, undoubtedly, one of the best the game of football (soccer) has ever seen. A part of the winning FIFA World Cup 1990 Germany team that beat Diego Maradona’s Argentina, Klinsmann was one of Germany’s premier strikers during the 90s.

Klinsmann was born on 30 July 1964 in Göppingen and started playing for TB Gingen, an amateur football club in Gingen an der Fils, at the age of eight. Jurgen Klinsmann started his professional career in 1982 with the then second division side Stuttgarter Kickers and he had scored 19 goals by the end of the 1983/1984 season. In 1987, Jurgen Klinsmann got his first cap for the German National Team against Brazil, the match ended in a 1–1 draw.

Klinsmann was named German Footballer of the Year in 1988 when he was just 24. The German striker made a great impact when he played as a lone striker during a match against Netherlands during the 1990 World Cup in Italy in which he occupied the entire Dutch defense and scored a memorable goal. His blond hair and scoring ability earned him the nickname “Golden Bomber.”

Klinsmann earned 108 caps along with 47 international goals and participated in the 1988 Summer Olympics, where his team won a bronze medal; the 1988, 1992, and 1996 European Championships, where his team reached the final in 1992 and became champion in 1996; and the 1990, 1994 and 1998 World Cups, where his team won the World Cup in 1990. Jurgen Klinsmann retired from professional football in the summer of 1998 after the World Cup.

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Lionel Andrés Messi, popularly known to the world as Lionel Messi, is one of the most promising soccer players in today’s times. This football player from Argentina, playing as a forward or winger, who presently plays for FC Barcelona and the Argentina national team, has already been compared with the legendary Argentina football captain, Diego Maradona. Barcelona manager Josep Guardiola has also asserted that Messi is probably the best player he had ever seen after he helped Barcelona won the 2009 UEFA Super Cup.

Lionel Messi was born at Rosario (Argentina) on 24 June 1987 and adores the Number 10 jersey, which is so commonly associated with the best in a football team. Considered one of the best football players of his generation, Messi received several Ballon d’Or and FIFA World Player of the Year nominations by the age of 21 years and won both by the age of 22. Maradona, believed to be the best player ever to wear the No. 10 jersey, also considers Messi as his “successor”.

Messi made his full international debut on 17 August 2005 against Hungary at the age of 18 and wore the number 10 jersey for the first time with Argentina in a World Cup Qualifier against Venezuela on 28 March 2009. In the 2006 World Cup, Lionel Messi became the youngest player to represent Argentina at a World Cup when he came on as a substitute in a match against Serbia and Montenegro for Maxi Rodríguez in the 74th minute.

Touted as the greatest player of the recent generation, Lionel Messi has all what it takes to be a superstar footballer.

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