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 … [Read more...]