The records of the ‘tour’ Lionel Messi is aiming for with PSG and the national team in the most important moment of the season

in seven days, Paris Saint-Germain will play three fundamental matches: the round of 16 of the French Cup this wednesday, a new date of championship 1 and the first leg of the round of 16 of Champions League. In seven days, the best player in the world may be in the news again. Because their staggering numbers are close to even more staggering numbers. THE exact figures They are always a good excuse to celebrate them and thus continue to have fun Lionel Messi at the time of the third world conquest.

In this game of “round” numbers, Rosario’s man is 2 goals from reaching 700 in clubsTO 3 out of 300 assists also adding Barcelona and Paris Saint-Germain, e 4 four many of the 800 of his senior career (club and selection). Can you achieve any of these three points in one week? The captain has already proved that nothing is impossible in his incredible career. This Wednesday will be measured with Olympic Marseillesaturday with Monk and Tuesday with Bayern Munich from Germany.

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but there is more. The striker has already confirmed that he will continue to play for the national team to enjoy everything he has done with the people, especially the World Cup. The FIFA appointment will be in March and with Albiceleste he will have the possibility of reaching 100 goals. All you need is two.

Furthermore, in the continuity of the season, Messi can also reach the 700 goals not counting those he scored on penaltieswhich are already 108. So 12 are missing. And also, the 500 many in competitions League: there are only 10 left.

In some of these areas it is already a record. But not in others, he has before him other characters of the world, which he can overthrow. Leo is the second player in history with the most goals. With four others he will reach 800, but the Portuguese is in first place Cristiano Ronaldo, with 820, and who is now in Arabia, a League to which, at 37, he can continue to add many more. In some records the Austrian Josef Bican (1931-1955) appears with 805 goals but comparing various sources different numbers emerge.

Cristiano Ronaldo is also the player who has scored the most goals for clubs. He arrived at Al Nassr with 701 in his crop and has already scored one goal more in his first three games. That is to say, Messi needs four goals to reach him and five to surpass him. But as has always happened in both their careers, the dispute will be inch by inch. Under the Brazilians Romario (689) and Pelé (684).

There is a table where Messi does not appear on the podium, which hardly reaches the first position but could reach the second. He adds 490 goals in league tournaments, 474 in the Spanish one with Barcelona and 16 in the French one with PSG. He has 10 out of 500 and will be the fifth to reach that number. CR7 is fourth with 499, one out of 500. The leaders in this category are Pelé, with 606 goals for Santos, Bican with 518 between the Austrian and Czechoslovak leagues, and the Hungarian Ferenc Puskas with 514 between the Hungarian and the Spanish. At 35, O Rei’s goal seems unattainable for Messi.

On the other hand, the Argentine captain is the king of assists, a peculiar primacy depending on the parameters that are taken but which most of the sources consulted agree. He has 297 in clubs and 53 in the national team, that is 350. He is ahead of the German Thomas Müller and the Portuguese Figo, both with 324. He is three meters away from reaching 300 in clubs, a figure that the other two have not reached: Muller, 284 , and Figo, 279.

If, on the other hand, from the 796 goals we remove the 108 he has scored from a penalty, the figure remains at 688. Therefore, he lacks 12 goals to reach 700 victories without counting the maximum penalty. In Barcelona he has converted 82, in the national team 24 and at Paris Saint Germain he has 2.

Also next Tuesday against the Germans he can round up 130 goals in the Champions League. One is missing. Then he will start the countdown to CR7, who scored a total of 141.

At the end of March, the national team will play two friendlies. Messi will be present, adds 98 and will have the possibility of reaching 100 goals. He is only surpassed by CR7, who scored 118 for Portugal, and Ali Daei, who scored 109 for Iran.

“I don’t think about records, I just go out to play,” Leo said in 2013. “I’m not interested in records, I want to win something with the national team,” he stressed in 2016. Almost without wanting to, he kept racking up records and since July 2021 he made his dream come true with Albiceleste: the Copa América, the Finalísima and the World Cup. At age 35, he’s looking for new brands and has reasons to keep having fun.