Barcelona footballer Lionel Messi set a new milestone in the last league match. In the 92nd minute, he scored the 500th goal for FC Barcelona. I couldn't have picked a better competitor and a better moment for this. He scored it against his biggest rival, Real from Madrid, who is otherwise a regular client of the prodigy from Argentina, and this at his Santiago Bernabeu stadium, and to top it off, in the dying moments of the match, which also sank the white ballet and kept Barcelona in the race for the title of Spanish champion. With this incredible achievement, it is right to pay tribute to this miracle on the green with a video of all his 500 goals in the Blaugrana jersey.
Lionel Messi is at the biggest football derby in the world on Sunday El Clásico already scored his 500th goal in the Barcelona shirt! The prodigy from Argentina made his unofficial debut for the Catalan giants in a match against FC Porto on November 16, 2003, making his first official appearance for Barcelona October 16, 2004, when he was on the air at Barcelona's Montjuïc Stadium Catalan derby against Espanyol.
At that time, the team was led by a Dutchman Frank Rijkaard, and Messi is with the number 30 entered eight minutes before the end of the meeting, which was won by the more famous club from Catalonia after Deca's goal in front of more than 30 thousand fans. It was the Portuguese who was replaced on the green by the Argentine. He made his debut aged 17 years 3 months and 22 days.
At that time, he played as a right winger. For your own first goal in a Blaugrana shirt it took seven and a half months. He achieved it in the 34th round of the Spanish La Liga, May 1, 2005 against the team Albacete at the home stadium Camp Nou. It was a lob, and it was masterfully delivered by none other than another soccer legend, the Brazilian Ronaldinho.
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In the first season (2004/05), Messi spent an average of 77 minutes on the pitch. Everything else is history. Number 10 - this one is reserved exclusively for football excellence (Diego Maradona, Pele, Zlatko Zahovič, Michel Platini, Zinedine Zidane, Roberto Biaggi... wore it) - he inherited from the Ronaldos.
Already 266th meeting between Real Madrid and Barcelona was a real treat for football connoisseurs. In addition to attractive goals and overplay and the obligatory hot and slightly less obligatory real blood (it was Messi who bled), the eternal derby also served with a new one incredible milestones The Messiah.
The Argentinian has already scored in the Balugran jersey 500th goal. Messi is in Madrid scored twice, initially to equalize at 1:1, and then in the last attack for 2:3 in favor of Barcelona. With two goals, he also became top scorer in matches between Barcelona and Real. It is on the eternal scale with 16 hits overtook the legendary Real striker Alfredo Di Stefano. In the video below, you can see all 500 goals of Messi in the Barcelona jersey.
