The two battled successfully career threatening injuries to become FIFA World Player of the Year.
KAKA at the age of 18 and at the peak of his Sao paulo stint had career-threatening injury, when the young Kaka slipped at a swimming pool fracturing his back. Not only did doctors believe he would never again play soccer, but they feared the worse, as the injury could easily lead to a paralysis.
Kaka managed to miraculously recover and even came back on the pitch the next season! Since then, grateful to God that He saved his life, Kaka donates one tenth of his yearly salary to the Brazilian Church. But the miracle didn't stop here. Just one year after recovering from his injuries Kaka drew the eyes of Brazil's national team staff. Making his debut for Brazil, Kaka was ready for a European career.
He won the FIFA World Cup with Brazil and he went on to join AC Milan and take them to Champions League glory and earned the FIFA player of the year award.
He tortured Liverpool in Athens. With heart on sleeve and slogan on chest, Kaká’s postmatch celebration in Athens on Wednesday night thrust his faith into the spotlight. “I belong to Jesus,” the statement said.
This is what KAKA has to say about his recovery from his career threatening injury
The doctors said that I was lucky to be able to walk normally,” he said. “They were talking about luck and my family was talking about God. We knew that it was His hand that had saved me.”
Lionel Messi started kicking the ball at an early age and when he was just 5 years old.Messi was already showing promise and he was considered a huge future talent, but unfortunately he was diagnosed with a growth hormone deficiency that could be treated, but its cost would be around $700 per month and the Messi family simply did not have that kind of money..
Barcelona, who was already scouting him, learned of his problem and decided to help out and put the life of Leonel Messi back on its rightful track. Messi soon signed with Barcelona's youth team and moved to Spain for his treatment.Recovering from his growth deficiency problem, the Argentinean started playing regularly for Barcelona .
Despite his small frame,he was impressive and scored heavily, he went on become the youngest player to play for Barcelona.is most memorable match and the one that truly made him the big star that he is today was the El Clasico(Real madrid) .Lionel Messi goal will live long in the memory of the Barca fans as everyone talked for weeks about the 19 year old kid that brought Real Madrid to its knees.
He went on to take Barcelona to Champions League glory and in final bringing Man U to their knees and eventually win the FIFA player of the year.
