MANILA, Philippines – Lionel Messi broke Pelé’s record for a single club by scoring his 644th for Barcelona in a 3-0 win over Valladolid on Tuesday (Wednesday, Manila time).
The Argentine forward scored Barça’s third goal when he recovered Pedri’s rear wheel and hit goalkeeper Jordi Masip in the minute.
“When I played football, I never thought I’d break records. Much less the one I did today,” Messi said on Instagram a while after the game.
“I can only thank everyone who has helped me over the years, my peers, my family, my friends and everyone who has helped me every day. “
Messi tied with Pelé on Saturday (Sunday in Manila) in a 2–2 draw with Valencia.
Both men scored at an equivalent speed for their clubs.
It is the 749th competitive match of the 33-year-old Argentine for Barca, which means he has scored one goal in every 1. 16 games.
The Brazilian scored 643 goals in 757 games for Santos, where he played between 1956 and 1974, one each and 1. 17 games.
“Like you, I know what it’s like to love dressed in the same suit every day. Like you, I know there’s nothing bigger than feeling at home,” Pelé wrote to Messi on Instagram after the Argentine tie. the record.
“Congratulations on your old record, Lionel. But above all, congratulations on your wonderful career in Barcelona. Stories like ours, loving the same club for so long, will be increasingly rare in football. I appreciate you very much. “
Messi, a six-time Golden Ball winner, is through Barca’s top sensible goalscorer (followed by César Rodríguez with 230 goals), the top sensible scorer in Spanish league history (451 goals, cristiano Ronaldo 311 striker), and the player who won the top trophies with the Catalan club (34, adding 4 Champions League).
“I see Messi happy. It works hard and plays a very important role in our offensive game,” Koeman said after the win.
Pelé claims to have scored more than a thousand goals, counting everything he has played, official and unofficial.
But in competitive matches, Pelé turns out to be austrian and Czechoslovak striker Josef Bican, who, according to football historians, scored 805 goals between 1931 and 1955, betting on a dozen clubs and 3 teams.
Pelé, with between 757 and 767 goals in competitive matches of his career, which also includes 92 Brazilian internationals and two seasons with the New York Cosmos, beat Messi with 714 per club and country and the top cristiano Ronaldo tour (754).
Pelé still holds the record for top foreign goals through a South American with 77 for Brazil, but Messi has 71 for Argentina.
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