Lionel Messi controlled the ball at an estimated height of 1.83m against Paraguay

Lionel Messi’s sensational game for Argentina saw him control the ball approximately 1.83 meters in the air against Paraguay.

The six-time Ballon d’Or winner continues to do out-of-this-world things on a soccer field and even for Messi, this last passage was special.

It has prompted Messi to take part in another of the best football footage ever, while the slow motion footage truly captures the beauty of Messi’s acrobatic antics.

And the fan @FutbalFax went one step further to highlight how impressive Messi’s feat was. Coming out of his teammate Giovani Lo Celso, the man closest to Messi for touch, who is 5-foot-10, he estimated that the diminutive Barcelona captain’s left boot was six feet in the air.

Cristiano Ronaldo has an innate ability to jump to incredible heights for header but clearly Messi is also superhuman in the air, just in a different way.

Messi’s expert control was put to the test by a Japanese game show, which challenged Messi to touch the dead ball after it fell from high in the sky in 2015.

Messi needed to kick the ball over a barrier that was being held in the air by cranes at different heights, before attempting to control the ball.

10 meters was easy, while 13 and 15 meters were no problem either. Then came the grand finale for the then world record.

At 18 meters in the air, Messi placed it in space, touched it and began to spin as if it were the easiest thing in the world.

To show that it had not been a coincidence, Messi went and replicated his exploits for the second time. Just crazy.