FC Barcelona’s Lionel Messi Faces 9 Challenges To Become The Best Ever Player Spain Spanish La Liga FC Barcelona Lionel Messi FC Barcelona forward, Lionel Messi, has a potential record-breaking weekend ahead of him and in this light, we take a look at the challenges which is facing to become the worlds best player. In the game against Eibar Messi could score his 200th goal for Catalan giants at home and he could score his 250th La Liga goal. If he would score at least three goals he would break Telmo Zarra’s all-time La Liag record and another win would take his total tally with the Catalan giants to 300 wins. With so many records likely to be broken soon, we took a look at nine other challenges which the 27-year-old still has ahead of him. With FC Barcelona: Cristiano Ronaldo Messi scored 14 Champions League goals during the 2011-12 season, but Ronaldo broke that record during the 2013-14 campaign with 17. The Champions League Former Real Madrid man Raúl González is the Champions Leagues all-time top scorer with 71 goals. Messi has (68) but still trails Ronaldo (70). Europe Messi has notched up 69 goals in all European club competitions. Ahead of him lie only Pippo Inzaghi (70), Cristiano (72) and Raúl (77). With Argentina: Batistuta Messis 44 international goals for Argentina have already seen him overtake Maradona (34) and Hernán Crespo (35), and he now only trails Gabriel Batistuta by 11. Klose This is a tough ask. Miroslav Klose scored 16 World Cup goals - over four tournaments - compared with Messis current tally of five. He has a long way to go before he even gets close to the Brazilian Ronaldo (15), Gerd Müller (14), Just Fontaine (13) or Pelé (12). Fontaine Fontaine holds the record for the most goals at a single World Cup. If Messi scores 13 goals at the next World Cup, he would equal the Frenchmans record, set during Sweden 58. Pelé He is still way off the Brazilians 1,282 career goals. Pelé scored 760 goals in 831 competitive games with the remainder coming in friendlies. Messi has netted a total of 405 goals, 360 of them in competitive games. Argentina The Copa América is still missing from his impressive trophy cabinet. Next year could be his big chance. World Cup He came close this year, but hell still get to play in another World Cup at the top of his game. Which of these nine challenges do you think Lionel Messi will achieve? Have your say in the comment section below.
Posted on: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 19:34:44 +0000
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