Lionel Andrs Messi

Lionel Andrs Messi , born on 24 June 1987, is an Argentine footballer who currently plays
for Barcelona and the Argentine national team. He is one of the best football players of his
generation and is frequently considered as the world's best contemporary player. Lionel
Messi, whose playing style and ability have drawn comparisons to Diego Maradona,
received Ballon d'Or and FIFA World Player of the Year nominations by the age of 21 and
won both by the age of 22. Diego Maradona once declared that Messi was his "successor."
Lionel Messi's talent was early detected by his father. When he began playing with the local
team, his potential was quickly identified by Barcelona . At the age of 11, he was diagnosed
with a growth hormone deficiency, which is a medical condition in which the body does not
produce enough growth hormone and whose treatment nessecitates a lot of money. He left
Rosario-based Newell's Old Boys's youth team in 2000 and moved with his family to Europe,
as Barcelona offered treatment for his growth hormone deficiency. Making his debut in the
200405 season, he broke the La Liga record for the youngest footballer to play a league
game, and also the youngest to score a league goal. Major honours soon followed as
Barcelona won La Liga in Messi's debut season, and won a double of the league and
Champions League in 2006. His breakthrough season was in 200607; he became a first team
regular, scoring a hat-trick in El Clsico and finishing with 14 goals in 26 league games.
Perhaps his most successful season was the 200809 season, in which Messi scored 38 goals
to play an integral part in a treble-winning campaign.
Messi was the top scorer of the 2005 FIFA World Youth
Championship with six goals, including two in the final game.
Shortly thereafter, he became an established member of
Argentina's senior international team. In 2006, he became the
youngest Argentine to play in the FIFA World Cup and he won a
runners-up medal at the Copa Amrica tournament the following
year. In 2008, in Beijing, he won his first international honour, an
Olympic gold medal, with the Argentina Olympic football team.

Cristiano Ronaldo

Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro, born on February 5th, 1985 and commonly known as
Cristiano Ronaldo, is a Portuguese footballer who plays as a forward for Spanish club Real
Madrid and serves as captain of the Portuguese national team. Ronaldo currently holds the
distinction of being the most expensive player in football history after having transferred to
Real Madrid from Manchester United in a deal worth 80 million (94m, US$132m). His
contract with Real Madrid is believed to have made him the highest-paid football player in
the world.
Ronaldo began his career as a youth player for Andorinha, where he
played for two years, then moved to Nacional. In 1997, he made a move
to Portuguese giants Sporting CP. Ronaldo's precocious talent caught
the attention of Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson and he
signed the 18-year-old for 12.24 million in 2003. The following
season, Ronaldo won his first club honour, the FA Cup, and reached the
Euro 2004 final with Portugal, in which tournament he scored his first
international goal.
In 2008, Ronaldo won the Champions League with United, and was
named player of the tournament. He was named the FIFPro World
Player of the Year and the FIFA World Player of the Year, in addition to
becoming Manchester United's first Ballon d'Or winner in 40 years.
Three-time Ballon d'Or winner Johan Cruyff said in an interview on 2
April 2008, "Ronaldo is better than George Best and Denis Law, who were two brilliant and
great players in the history of United."

Computers

A computer is a programmable machine designed to automatically carry out a sequence of

arithmetic or logical operations. The first use of the word "computer" was recorded in 1613,
referring to a person who carried out calculations, or computations, and the word continued
with the same meaning until the middle of the 20th century. From the end of the 19th century
the word began to take on its more familiar meaning, a machine that carries out computations
In the beginning, computers were as big as a large room. It is only later that they have
become smaller and smaller, accessible to anyone. This has given way to personal computers.
Later developers created new applications to help users perform many things from word
processing to image editing. A large scale of programs, some free and others costly, have
opened new horizons in information technology.
Now computers have noticeable impact on social relations. They have enabled entirely new
forms of social interaction, activities, and organizing. With the Internet, working with
computers has become part of our daily lives thanks to its basic features such as widespread
usability and access. In addition to face to face communication that characterized humans for
centuries, a new form of virtual communication has become more predominant.