The ranking of the top scorers in the history of Barça is headed by Leo Messi. And with authority. So it will be more difficult for any other player to one day put his record at risk: there are 673 goals in official competitions, including the one he scored against Real Madrid in 2017 in the International Champions Cup, a goal which is not usually added to his record. With this record, Messi is ahead of his three immediate pursuers: César Rodríguez (234), Luis Suarez (201) and Ladislao Kubala (192). Among the current players, the one with the most goals is Polish RRobert Lewandowski.
Messi made his debut as a Blaugrana scorer at the end of the 2004-05 League, with Frank Rijkaard on the bench. He did it by scoring one of the two goals Albacete took from Camp Nou (2-0) four days before Barça became champions.
And he scored his last goal on May 16, 2021, sixteen years later: Leo opened the scoring in the 27th minute but Celta was unable to take the victory at Camp Nou (1-2) . This is how Joan Poquí explained it in the record of that day: “A great pass from Busquets into the area was headed home by Messi, who got the back of his marker, the young Domínguez.”. On the same day, by the way, the Barça women’s team won the Champions League, defeating Chelsea in Goteborg (4-0) in the final.
Throughout his scoring history in the Barça shirt, Messi’s record is the 5 goals he scored on March 7, 2012 in a Champions League match against Bayer Leverkusen, which took no less than a 7-1 victory over Barcelona. This is how Gabriel Sans described it in Mundo Deportivo: “The legendary César’s reign in Barça’s scoring history is coming to an end. Soon, very soon, you will see from wherever you are how a small and stratospheric player, with the ability to finish all the complimentary adjectives in the dictionary, will overtake you in his dizzying career at the top of Olympus. And at the age of only 24. Well Messi, the football gods congratulate you and thank you for your first repoker so much“
On six other occasions he scored 4 goals and in at least 41 games he added 3. A record of achievements is probably unmatched in this sense.
His highest scoring period was 2011-12where he reached 73 points. During that time, Barça became champions of the Club World Cup, Cup, Spanish Super Cup and European Super Cup, including Pep Guardiola on the culé bench.
By competitions, logically the most prolific is LaLiga: 474 goals, where he is the all-time top scorer, ahead of Cristiano Ronaldo. His other goals in official competitions were scored in the Copa del Rey (56), Champions League (120), Club World Cup (5), Spanish Super Cup (14), European Super Cup (3) and International Champions Cup (1).
Messi scored goals of all kinds: direct free kicks, penalties, headers… The most impressive goals are countless, it’s hard to choose. One of them was the spectacular goal against Getafe at Camp Nou on April 18, 2007, modeled after Maradona’s legendary goal at the 1986 World Cup in Mexico.
And also the decisive ones, the ones that spoiled the final and gave the title to Barça, like the 2009 Champions League, a headed goal that condemned United in Rome; or the 2018-19 League decider against Levante. But there are many more… they all remained in the history of Barça and in the retina of the eyes of millions of culé, where he gave 673 joys in the form of a goal.
Source: La Verdad
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