6/24/2024–|Last updated: 6/24/202408:07 PM (Mecca time)
Today, Argentine star Lionel Messi, captain of the “Tango” team and the American team Inter Miami, celebrates his 37th birthday, while he is with his country’s national team to defend its title as Copa America champion.
Messi provided an assist to Lautaro Martinez, who scored the second goal in the match that Albaceleste won over Canada with two unanswered goals in the opening of the continental championship, which Messi won two years ago for the first time in his career.
Messi’s numbers indicate that we are facing one of the best players in the history of the football club, and one of its legends who waits a lot for football before it produces someone like him.
Messi did not confirm or rule out his participation in the 2026 World Cup, as he said – in a previous statement – that “I am not thinking about the World Cup, and I am not saying that I will not be there 100%. Because of my age, it is natural that I will not be there. After that we will see. Maybe we will succeed in Cuba.” America and everything combined to achieve success, perhaps not, in fact, things will be difficult.”
The most prominent of these numbers are:
- He played 1065 matches.
- He contributed to 1,211 goals (a record).
- He scored 837 goals.
- 374 feet (record).
- He scored 57 hat-tricks.
- He scored 65 goals from a free kick.
- 8 Golden Balls (a record).
- He won the European Golden Shoe 6 times.
- 44 team titles (record).
- World Cup title.
- Title of Copa America.
- 2008 Olympic gold medal.
- 4 Champions League titles.
- 10 titles in La Liga.
- The first player in the history of Copa America to provide an assist in 7 different versions of the competition.
- The player who played the most matches in the history of Copa America (35 matches).
