Lionel Messi’s birthday: His career in 30 facts

1 : First senior goal – on 1 May 2005 –
came for Barcelona as a late substitute in a Liga game against Albacete ; to the manner born , the 17 - year -old chipped in impudently .
2 : Second - highest scorer in European Cup history – group stage to final – with 94 goals .
3 : Messi has hit 37 hat - tricks for Barcelona.
4 : Number of UEFA Champions League winners ’ medals in his collection , together with eight Liga titles and five Copa del Reys.
5 : Goals Messi scored against Bayer Leverkusen in one UEFA Champions League last - 16 game in 2012 ( a record shared with Luiz Adriano ) .
6 : Messi found the net in six different club competitions in 2011, repeating the feat in 2015 .
7 : Most UEFA Champions League hat -tricks ( a feat shared with Cristiano Ronaldo) .
8 : Consecutive seasons that he has notched 40 goals or more for Barcelona .
9 : Goals short of 100 for Messi in the calendar year 2012, with a world record 91 .
10: Messi wore the No 19 shirt when he broke into the Barcelona team before inheriting the No 10 in 2008 following Ronaldinho’ s departure.
11: Messi was nearly 11 when his grandmother died . She is the inspiration for his trademark celebration , looking up and pointing to the sky.
12: Most goals scored for Argentina in a calendar year , 2012 , a record he shares with Gabriel Batistuta .
13: Age at which he left his native Argentina to join Barcelona.
14: Number of goals Messi has struck at the Santiago Bernabéu , second only to the Camp Nou at club level .
15: Most Liga away matches with a goal in a single season ( he also holds the record for home games , with 16 ) .
16: Messi was 16 years , four months, and 23 days old when he made his Barça first - team debut in a friendly against José Mourinho ’s Porto; his 15 -minute cameo saw him create two openings and have a shot himself.
17: Record number of goals registered in the Spanish Super Cup , across six different seasons .
18: Age when Messi bagged his first UEFA Champions League goal , nervelessly lifting the ball over the keeper and firing in against Panathinaikos .
19: Messi is the only player to score consecutively against all 19 opposition teams in the Liga .
20: Messi has plundered 20 + goals against six opponents over the course of his career , including the rest of last season ’s Liga top six .
21: Longest goalscoring run in the Liga set in 2012/ 13 , amassing 33 goals during that sequence of matches.
22: Age when he claimed the Ballon d ’Or and FIFA World Player of the Year awards by record voting margins .
23: Goals scored in the Clásico, five more than Alfredo di Stéfano and seven more than Ronaldo.
24: Age at which he became Barcelona’ s all- time top scorer.
25: Major finals he has contested over the years …
26: … and the number of goals he has struck in them .
27: Goals converted direct from a free -kick for the Blaugrana .
28: Messi became the youngest South American to reach 100 caps four days short of his 28th birthday.
29: Goals Messi has notched so far against favourite opponents Sevilla; on the European stage Arsenal have the unwanted honour ( nine ) .
30: Years on the clock!

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