Who are the top scorers of the Argentine team in history?

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(CNN Spanish) --

After a couple of years with a great soccer level and with an undefeated match streak that was cut short at the beginning of the World Cup, the Argentina team has a new co-leader of historical scorers in World Cups with the scores in Qatar 2022: Lionel Messi reached the top, with Gabriel Batistuta.

And the goal leader in all competitions with the national team has been, for a long time and by far, Messi.

Messi reached 10 goals in World Cups, a historic mark that 'Batigol' had, with his penalty score in the quarterfinal match against the Netherlands.

The magic of the Argentine star has been vital for any aspiration of the albiceleste, and even more so because it is the greatest scorer in the history of the Argentine team.

Below we present the players who complete the top 10 top scorers for the Argentine men's team (seniors), according to data from the specialized Transfermarkt site.

Argentina's top 10 scorers

It is worth saying that of the 95 goals with the senior team, Messi has scored 51 of them in non-friendly matches and 44 in competitive matches, meaning that 53% are goals scored in competitive matches.

Batistuta, meanwhile, scored 37 goals out of his 55 in competition matches, 67%.

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Messi has scored 10 goals in five World Cups, the same as Batistuta as Argentina's top scorers in World Cups.

Batistuta scored those 10 goals in three World Cups, while now third on the list of World Cup scorers is Maradona with 8 goals in four tournaments.

Extra fact: of this list, Sanfilippo is the one with the best average goal per game with 0.86;

They are followed by Batistuta (0.71), Crespo (0.55) and then Messi (0.56).

The road to Qatar

The albiceleste finished in second place in the Conmebol qualifiers for Qatar, was champion of the Copa América in 2021 and this year won the "Finalissima" against Italy.

Much of Argentina's recent success (and in general its achievements in recent years) has been accompanied by the path of its captain Lionel Messi, who is considered by many to be the greatest player in history.

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Messi has shown great performance with the national team in the last two years, something that he has also already begun to recover with his club, PSG, where he was unable to show his usual football in the 2021/2023 season.

With information from Sebastián Jiménez

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