World Records Of Lionel Messi

The most popular and most viewed sport in the entire world is football. If we talk about football, we can never forget the name, Lionel Messi. There is some credit that should be given to Lionel Messi because of him football gats to this great extent. About 3.5 billion of the world's population watch football. This is a world record in itself.

Lionel Messi was born on 24th June 1987, Rasoiro, Santa Fe, Argentina. This craze of football on Messi was from the age of 5. At 5 he used to play at a club Grandoli FC. In 1995 he started playing for his city team Newell's Old Boys at the age of 9. And at the age of 11, he get a disease called hormone deficiency. At the age of 14, he shifted to Spain with his family and played for Barcelona Youth Academy's team La Masia. He made his international debut on 17th August 2005 against Hungary. From this day the journey of various world records of Lionel Messi began. Some of the world records made by Lionel Messi are: -

(1) In 2012 his name was added to the Guinness World Records for scoring the highest number of goals in a calendar year that was 91 in a year.

(2) Lionel Messi is the only player in Spanish La Liga to score 300+ goals.

(3) Lionel Messi was the youngest player to score 50 goals in the Champion League.

(4) Most number of goals scored in the UEFA Champion League match is 5 and was first achieved by none other than Lionel Messi.

(5) Lionel Messi is the top scorer for F.C. Barcelona that is 627 goals and the top scorer of La Liga that is 438 goals, also the top scorer for Argentina that is 70 goals.

(6) Lionel Messi has the record for the most number of goals in EL Clasino that is 21 goals.

(7) Lionel Messi has the record for the most number of assists of all time that is 289.

(8) Lionel Messi was also awarded the best dribbler of the decade that is 1880 successful dribbles.

(9) Lionel Messi has also a record of scoring the greatest number of goals in a decade that is 522 goals.

(10) Lionel Messi is the only player to win Ballon D’or 7 times and also won the Golden Boot 6 times.

(11) Lionel Messi has a record of 23 matches in a row with goals in a League in the year 2012-2013.
There are many more records that are made by Lionel Messi that is not yet achieved by any other player. By all these records we can say that Lionel Messi is one of the greatest of all time.