09/09/2021 21:09
Clarín.com
sports
Updated 09/09/2021 21:12
Lionel Messi is a record-making machine.
And this Thursday night, at the Monumental in the return of the public on the Argentine courts, he achieved one more that has enormous significance.
He arrived, after a great individual play, with pipe included and general madness in the stands.
It was his cry 77 with the National Team that not only allows him to increase his record with the blue and white, but also to reach an old Pelé mark and share the honor of being the highest historical scorer of a South American team.
O Rei, who is currently recovering from an operation after detecting a tumor in the colon, is Brazil's top scorer.
And he also stands out as the top scorer of a world champion team, ahead of the German Miroslav Klose, who scored 71 goals with the German jersey.
In this way, with his sixth cry against Bolivia,
Leo is also the top scorer of a selected world champion
.
#ARG 🇦🇷 1-0 🇧🇴 #BOL |
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Argentina goal, Messi goal!
Paredes stole at the start and played for 10 near the crescent.
Lio rubbed the lamp, threw down a spout, and opened his foot to place it next to the pole, away from Lampe.
Check it out at https://t.co/JIh8DXpAEb#SomosArgentina pic.twitter.com/HrtNhDk3Zu
- Public Television (@TV_Publica) September 9, 2021
Who is behind the brand, now jointly owned by Messi and Pelé, is Neymar, who accumulates 68 goals with the verdeamarela after recently surpassing the 62 screams that Ronaldo, the original, collected.
Another of the active players who goes after the Pele and Messi brand is the Uruguayan Luis Suárez, who has already converted 64 with the Celeste.
The man from Rosario has an average of one goal every two games: 77 in 154 games - counting the five minutes of Sunday's suspended game against Brazil.
The first was scored in the sixth meeting with the blue and white, on March 1, 2006, against Croatia (2-3) in Basel, Switzerland.
Since then, Leo has scored 34 goals in friendly matches, another 24 in Playoffs (Argentina's top scorer), 13 in the Copa América and 6 in the World Cups.
🔝 Lionel #Messi, always at the top: the Argentine captain 🇦🇷 reached Pelé as the top scorer of South American teams.
Come on leo!
🔟⚽ pic.twitter.com/BZIaOV0p1E
- Argentina National Team 🇦🇷 (@Argentina) September 9, 2021
The current one is the fifth eliminatory series that Messi participates and therefore Qatar 2022 will be his fifth World Cup.
For Germany 2006 he played 3 games and did not score;
South Africa 2010, 18 (4 goals);
Brazil 2014, 14 (0);
Russia 2018, 10 (7);
and now he has 8 games and scored 3 goals.
Pelé scored all 77 goals in 92 games between 1957 and 1971
.
About to turn 31,
O Rei
decided that his stage in the national team was over, after winning three World Cups.
He left an almost impossible goal average to match: 0.84.
Neymar made 68 in 112 games.
Messi is still far from the top scorers in selected teams.
Last week the Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo took the record alone after scoring two goals against Ireland, reaching 111 and leaving Iranian Ali Daei in second place, with 109. With 77 celebrations, he shares seventh place with Pelé ..
Behind Cristiano Ronaldo and Ali Daei, Mokhtar Dahari (Malaysia) appears in third place with 89 in 143;
then Ferenc Puskas (Hungary and Spain), with 84 in 89;
Godfrey Chitalu (Zambia), 79 at 111, and Hussein Saeed (Iraq) 78 at 137.
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The return of the public to the field: a test that went well despite the chaotic sale and an exchange that hindered everything
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