Argentinean great Lionel Messi finally reached to a milestone of scoring a maximum number of goals in a calendar year by breaking Germany’s legendry Gerd Mueller’s record of 85 goals set up around forty years ago. Messi scored 86th goal on Sunday during a match between his club Barcelona and Real Betis in Spanish league wherein Barca defeated Real Betis by 2-0. More interestingly, he still has to play three more matches this year, so everybody is keeping his fingers crossed to see what would be the next target for record aspirants. Since, Messi hardy missed any match due to his injury or for any other reasons; he got more matches exposure to beat the German record. While 74 of his 86 goal come while he was playing for his club Barca, remaining 12 were fired by him for his national team Argentina. This year seems to be a year of lifetime for the star player who recently became a father, coz he also broke Brazil great Pele’s record of scoring maximum number of goals in a single season last November.
Soon to be announced FIFA footballer of the year award also looks to be under his reach now, coz he is the most dominant personality among three finalists. Anyways, Messi’s magnificent spell enabled Barcelona to win 13 matches out of first 14 played in current Spanish league, hence there seems to be no stopping for this greatest soccer personality of recent times. Even his record spell with Barcelona brought many titles wins for his club, including three Spanish league titles, two Champions League crowns, and various other competitions. Three times winner of Ballon d’Or award could also be the first to win this award four times, if he wins it again in January.
Besides this, he also broke many records last season, like scoring 73 times for Barcelona breaking previous record of 67 goals set by Mueller in 1972-73. In March; he became the Barcelona’s highest goals scorer of all time be defeating Cesar Rodriguez’s 57-year-old milestone of 232 goals. So, ”The Flea” is now a topic of discussion on every online soccer forum, among offline fans, and among his critics as well. Earlier, many were skeptical of him to play Sunday clash because of his knee injury, but he manages to recover from it and achieved what everyone was dreaming for a long time!