Record breaker Lionel Messi's career in numbers

Barcelona maven football player Lionel Messi has been named the very best paid jock within the world!

He has overwhelmed rival Cristiano Ronaldo to the highest spot.

Messi earned  $127m (£99.8m) within the last twelve months, compared to Ronaldo's $109m (£85.6m), consistent with Forbes magazine.

Another soccer star to create the list was Paris Saint-Germain's Neymar player Neymar. He came third with a complete of $105m (£82.5m).

Serena Williams is that the solely girl within the high a hundred, earning $29.2m (£22.9m).

So, it appears Messi is high trumps once it involves creating cash, however let's take a glance at a number of his different accomplishments...
Record breaker
In could 2019, Lionel Messi scored his 600th goal for city within their 3-0 convert metropolis in the Champions League.

The landmark goal was an incredible long-range place-kicking and was scored precisely fourteen years to the day since his initial ever city goal!

Considering he is solely thirty one years recent, that is pretty smart going - however that is not all he is achieved his spectacular career.
How many goals has Messi scored?
Lionel Messi could be a goal machine - there isn't any higher thanks to place it. He merely scores for fun and over the previous few years he is broken quite an few records within the method.

He is the incomparable  top-scorer within the Spanish league La Liga, with 417 goals - a minimum of 106 quite the other player! future best is Cristiano Ronaldo with 311.

In 2012, Messi stony-broke a 40-year-old record control by the German legend Gerd Muller once he set a brand new record for the foremost goals in a very twelvemonth - ninety one and if you embody friendly games that range rises to ninety six .

During the 2012-13 season, he managed to scored in twenty one games in a very row in La Liga, that is a fantastic action. He solely did not score in four league games that season.
He's conjointly Argentina's high scorer presently on sixty four goals, that is almost double the quantity Argentina legend Diego Maradona scored.

In 2012, he became the primary player to get 5 goals in a very single Champions League game - that was against aspirin Leverkusen.

How many trophies has Messi won?
Lionel Messi has helped his club and country win a good few trophies due to all of the goals he is scored throughout his career.

Since his initial match for city in 2004, Lionel Messi has won a large thirty trophies with city.

That includes...

4 Champions League trophies
10 La Liga titles
6 Copa Del Reys
8 Spanish Super Cups
3 UEFA Super Cups
But that is only for city. he is conjointly won associate Olympic palm with Argentina at Peking 2008 and he conjointly won the under-20 World Cup.

Last however positively not least, in addition as all of his goals and trophies, he is conjointly won lots of personal accolades, together with associate astonishing 5 Ballon D'Ors once he was voted the world's best football player.

What a player!

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