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Lionel Messi surpasses Pele in career goals tally: Take a look at Argentine's top individual achievements

Lionel Messi scored five goals in a single match for Argentina against Estonia in a friendly on June 5, 2022 becoming his country's first player ever to do so. The seven-time Ballon d'Or holder now has 769 goals for club and country which takes him past Brazilian legend Pele, who scored 767 goals in his astonishing career.

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Updated:Jun 06, 2022, 04:27 PM IST

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Messi is the footballer with most Ballon d'Or's

Lionel Messi has won the illustrious award (Ballon d'Or) a record seven-time. Ronaldo currently has five with Johan Cruyff, Michel Platini and Marco van Basten, all winning the award three times. Messi won his first Ballon d'Or when he was 22 years of age at FC Barcelona. (Image Source: Twitter)

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Top scorer for Argentina and Barcelona

Lionel Messi is the top scorer for Spanish giants FC Barcelona with 637 goals for the club (excluding friendlies). Along with this, Messi is Argentina's top goal scorer with 86 goals for his nation.(Image Source: Twitter)

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Messi has overtaken Pele

Messi (86 goals) now stands fourth in the list of top international goal-scorers with 86 goals for his country overtaking Brazil's Pele (77). Messi is behind Mokhtar Dahari (89), Ali Daei (109) and long-time rival Cristiano Ronaldo (117). Messi's long-time rival Cristiano Ronaldo leads the chart of the all-time top goal-scorers with 813 goals for club and country. However, Messi has crossed Brazil great Pele who has 767 goals with his 769 goals in his club and country career so far. (Image Source: Twitter)

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2nd Footballer with most titles won

Lionel Messi became the second footballer in history after winning Finalissima 2022, which was his 40th career trophy in his astonishing professional career of 19 years. He is now behind former Barcelona teammate Dani Alves, who has a total of 42 titles for both club and country.(Image Source: Twitter)

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King of La Liga

Lionel Messi holds the record for most goals (474) in Spanish top-flight La Liga, all in his famous FC Barcelona shirt. Along with that, Messi also holds the record for most hat-tricks (36), and assists (192) in La Liga. (Image Source: Twitter)