Lionel Messi: Argentina & Paris St-Germain forward reaches 800 goals

Messi scored his 800th extremity with an 89th-minute free-kick for Argentina

Lionel Messi scored his 800th top-level extremity arsenic Argentina bushed Panama 2-0 successful their archetypal lucifer since winning the World Cup.

Messi's tally includes 672 goals implicit 17 seasons for Barcelona and 29 for PSG.

He besides has 99 planetary goals, with 2 coming successful the World Cup final.

The Argentina skipper scored an 89th-minute free-kick astatine the Monumental de Nunez Stadium successful Buenos Aires to adhd to Thiago Almada's opener 11 minutes earlier.

Messi volition person the accidental to people his 100th planetary extremity erstwhile Argentina play Curacao connected Tuesday.

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Magical Messi

It is yet different milestone successful an bonzer vocation during which helium has won astir each large trophy, including 4 Champions Leagues, 10 La Liga titles, the Copa America and, yet successful December, a World Cup winner's medal.

Established arsenic 1 of the top players of each time, Messi has won the Ballon d'Or - awarded to the champion subordinate of the twelvemonth successful European shot - a grounds 7 times, doubly much than Ronaldo.

The lone large contention Messi has played successful but has failed to triumph truthful acold is the French Cup.

Messi's haul of 35 trophies with Barcelona, whom helium joined astatine the property of 13, makes him the astir decorated subordinate successful the Spanish club's past and helium unsurprisingly holds Barca's all-time scoring and quality (778) records.

He has besides scored much goals (474) and provided much assists (192) than immoderate subordinate to person featured successful La Liga and has the grounds for the astir goals successful a azygous play successful the Spanish apical formation - his 50 successful 37 games during 2011-12.

He has the astir hat-tricks successful La Liga (36) and shares the grounds for the astir trebles successful a azygous play with Ronaldo, who besides has eight.

While the Portugal guardant remains the Champions League's all-time apical scorer with 140 goals, Messi - who has 129 - was the archetypal subordinate to registry 5 goals successful a lucifer successful the contention and his series of scoring successful 18 consecutive years is besides unmatched successful the European nine game's elite tournament.

What's near for Messi to achieve?

Should helium transportation connected playing and enactment fit, Messi should scope 900 nine appearances adjacent play and would apt people successful his 20th consecutive top-flight season.

He is already Argentina's astir capped subordinate (172) and is 1 distant from a period of goals for his country. Gabriel Batistuta is 2nd connected the database with a distant 56 from 78 games.

Only Ronaldo (118) and Ali Daei, who scored 109 times for Iran betwixt 1993 and 2006, person scored much men's planetary goals.

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