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Messi sets La Liga scoring record of 253 goals
BARCELONA (Reuters) - Barcelona forward Lionel Messi set a La Liga scoring record of 253 goals when he netted a hat-trick in Saturday's 5-1 win at home to Sevilla.
The previous record has been held by former Athletic Bilbao striker Telmo Zarra since 1955, which marked the end of the Spaniard's 15-year career with the Basque club.
Zarra scored his 251 goals in 277 appearances, while Argentina captain Messi needed 289 games.
Forward Messi, 27, equaled the record in the 21st minute with a typically breathtaking strike, curling a left-footed shot around the wall and past Sevilla goalkeeper Beto into the net.
He struck again from close range in the 72nd minute and scored a third six minutes later with a powerful low drive from the edge of the penalty area.
His Barca team mates picked him up and threw him into the air several times while his adoring fans at the Nou Camp wildly cheered their talisman, who joined the club's academy at the age of 13.
The four-times World Player of the Year has scored 206 goals with his favored left foot, 38 with his right, eight with his head and one, which should have been ruled out, with his hand.
He matched former Real Madrid and Schalke 04 forward Raul's Champions League scoring record of 71 goals last month.
(Writing by Iain Rogers in Madrid, editing by Ken Ferris)
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Paris Saint Germain can go to hell. They let themselves be bought by some filthy rich Qatari bungling idiot, and anyway they've been supported by moronic racists for decades. Without all that stinking money that allows them to hire valuable players they'd be nowhere. Those big money clubs with no training centers (no real life on their own, no soul) just make me puke...
Club football is rotting IMO, many players only care for their "little" club and don't give a flying fuck about their national team, like those shitheads Nasri, Ribery or Anelka... But what are 5 or six national championships compared to 40 or 50 national selections with one or two international titles?
Those PSG jerks can all GTF as far as I'm concerned, and their colleagues from the Barça as well, though I'm fucking glad they won.posted by Ellyllions Men say, "I'll never understand women." That's a very lonely place to be if you're a woman because we don't understand half of what we do either.posted by ALinChainz Katy, Pipe down, pump off, and fly back to your cave you old bat.Comment
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BTW, Platini may probably be a fat, corrupted big shot, but he was right to insist on the fact the golden ball should be a German player, though there were a bunch of cunts who opposed that for whatever stupid "reasons". Those Messi, Ronaldo or whoever the fuck they might be, professional footballers who give 100% for a fucking local but high-paying shirt and compratively idle on the ground under their national shirt don't measure up with World champions.posted by Ellyllions Men say, "I'll never understand women." That's a very lonely place to be if you're a woman because we don't understand half of what we do either.posted by ALinChainz Katy, Pipe down, pump off, and fly back to your cave you old bat.Comment
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Of course I don't mean it's nothing, but no matter how many records he broke this year, it was a World Cup year, so as far as stating who is the best player in the world that player can but be part of the team who was World Champion. And Messi wasn't part of it. That's all.posted by Ellyllions Men say, "I'll never understand women." That's a very lonely place to be if you're a woman because we don't understand half of what we do either.posted by ALinChainz Katy, Pipe down, pump off, and fly back to your cave you old bat.Comment
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