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Argentine Lionel Messi became, on Tuesday, the player in football history with the most official goals for the same club, when he scored 644 in Barcelona’s 3-0 victory over Valladolid, beating the record. of “rei” Pelé in Santos.
With a goal in Valladolid, at 65 minutes, in a match on matchday 15 of the Spanish League, in match 749 for the Catalans, the 33-year-old coach left behind the three-time Brazilian world champion, who scored 643 goals in 659 matches for the ‘fish’, between 1957 and 1974.
Messi, who officially debuted with the main culé team on October 16, 2004, achieved this feat in his favorite competition, the Spanish League, in which he scored 451 goals in 499 games, being the best scorer in history.
With FC Barcelona, the Argentine also scored 118 goals in the Champions League (147 games), 53 in the Spanish King’s Cup (75), 14 in the Spanish Super Cup (19), five in the Club World Cup (five) and three in the European Union Super Cup (four).
The 10 of the Catalans had the most productive season in 2011/12, with 73 goals, and the best annual harvest in 2012, with 79 – counting the 12 for Argentina, it reached 91.
In the total of the career, counting all the official goals in the absolute category, Messi now has 742 goals in 946 games, and counting only the main teams of FC Barcelona and Argentina, the total is 715 goals, in 891 games.
As for Pelé, who turned 80 on October 23, he scored the most goals with Santos in the São Paulo championship, with a total of 467 goals, in just 410 games.
In internal competitions, the Canarinho player also scored 49 goals in the Rio / São Paulo Cup (53 games), 37 in the Silver Cup / Roberto Gomes Pedrosa (57), 34 in the Brazilian championship (83) and 30 in the Brazilian Cup (30)).
Pelé also has 26 goals in international competitions, 16 in the Copa Libertadores (15 games), seven in the Intercontinental Cup (three), five of them in the two games with Benfica 1962/63 and three in the South American Super Cup. He did not score in the Intercontinental Super Cup.
These numbers of the “king”, of the only three-time world champion in the history of football (1958, 1962 and 1970), do not include private matches, and in those accounts and, according to the Santos Historical Archive, the figure rises to 1091 goals. , in 1116 games.
On a club’s top scorers list in official matches, German international striker Gerd Muller, ‘Ballon d’Or in 1970 and’ Golden Boot ‘in 1970 and 1972, who scored 573 goals for Bayern, completed the podium. Munich.
At the top of the table with the highest number of goals for the same club are three Portuguese, one of whom is active: Cristino Ronaldo scored 451 goals in just 438 games with Real Madrid, whom he represented for nine seasons , from 2009/10 to 2017/18.
Even so, Ronaldo is not the best Portuguese footballer, but only the third, behind Fernando Peyroteo, who scored 543 goals for Sporting in just 334 games, and Eusébio da Silva Ferreira, author of 473 with Benfica, in 440 games. .
Argentine recital in Valladolid
As for the meeting, the Argentine star stood out in the triumph of Barcelona, which reached fifth place in the Spanish League. After being in the first two Catalan goals, and, at 90 + 2, having hit the post, the Argentine, with class, made it 3-0.
The French central Clement Lenglet, at 21 minutes, and the Danish forward Martin Braithwaite, at 35, built the just victory that puts the Catalans with 24 points, eight behind the leader Atlético de Madrid, who, on top, has a game for playing less than Ronald Koeman’s team.
With Trincão not leaving the Blaugrana bench, which happened for the first time in this championship, and Jota starting at the premises, Messi opened the game with a perfect center for the head of Lenglet, which ended the resistance of Valladolid.
The Argentine also discovered the North American Sergino Dest, who crossed to the right for the amendment, in the small area, Braithwaite, in a first part of total dominance.
Valladolid rose in performance in the complementary stage, however, Messi’s goal, after the heel of the young Pedri, sentenced the game.
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