If Lionel Messi had been born three hours from Barcelona, rather than from Buenos Aires, there would be little doubt today about his place in soccer history. Spain, the country where he makes his living, has won three important international titles in the past four years. Messi, Barcelona’s youth-size action hero, has been unquestionably the world’s top player over that period. The rub is that Messi is not Spanish. Nationality can make a résumé: dozens of active Spanish players — not to mention a few Italians, Brazilians and even the odd Frenchman — can claim the title of world champion. Messi has lined up alongside a host of them at Barcelona. But whenever he has pulled on the blue and white stripes of his native Argentina, Messi has been left pressing his nose against the trophy case glass. The joke in soccer is that Barcelona without Messi is Spain, but that Messi without Barcelona is lost. If this is a source of frustration for Messi, 25, it is not apparent in his work. He is a three-time winner of the UEFA Champions League, a tournament that might be harder to win than the World Cup, and one that he has led in scoring for four years in a row. In January, he will almost certainly pick up a record fourth world player of the year award. And on Sunday he wrote his name onto another page in soccer’s record book by scoring his 85th and 86th goals this year in Barcelona’s 2-1 Spanish league victory at Real Betis, breaking the mark of 85 that Gerd Müller set with Bayern Munich and Germany in 1972.
This piece of article mostly introduces messi as one of the greatest soccer player of all time and give some stats about over all work ever since he started his career as a soccer player. It also cover the record that he lately just broke that was assigned under the German star Gerd Muller. it also talks about some records that he broke in the past. The latest record is a mark of Messi’s consistency and excellence, but it is also the product of a regular place on a great team that plays a lot of games. The 86 goals also happen to be 85 more than Messi has scored in his World Cup career, and for that reason the true worshipers at the churches of Pelé and Maradona will always rate Messi below their idols in the debate about the game’s greatest player. Compared with his successes in Europe, Messi’s performances for his country have been disappointing. He has 31 goals in 76 appearances for Argentina, comparable to Maradona’s 34 in 91, but little to show for it. Named to Argentina’s World Cup team as a 19-year-old in 2006, Messi was used sparingly in the first four games and not at all in a quarterfinal loss to Germany. Coached by Maradona himself at the 2010 tournament, Messi failed to score in five games, including a second straight loss to the Germans in the quarterfinals. Weeks later, Spain — built around the core of Messi’s teammates from Barcelona — followed its 2008 European title by winning its first World Cup. When Spain repeated as the European champion last summer, it became illogical to argue that even Messi’s presence would have made the team better. Still, his latest scoring feat is remarkable. Those who correctly point out that Messi has played more games this year than Müller did in ’72 conveniently ignore the fact that Müller’s record had stood for four decades, surviving the bulk of Johan Cruyff’s career and the entirety of Maradona’s, and that it was finally overcome despite a schedule that players of Müller’s era could not have imagined.
This article talks about the negative points on messi’s career as a soccer player. It talks about why he should be called the best of all when he still didn’t win the world cup and also been disqualified too early from the tournament. It also gives some stats about the great job he does when he plays in Europe for FC Barcelona vs when he plays for international team AREGENTINA.

Messi has played in 13 countries in 2012 and scored in eight. In a two-week stretch that began