Beating Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi is the fastest player to score 830 goals

Lionel Messi again invited admiration from world football fans, especially fans of Major League Soccer (MLS) 2024. The player known as La Pulga successfully bewitched Chase Stadium, Sunday (21/4/2024) WIB, when Inter Miami bombarded the Nashville 3 goal -1.

Appearance Messi at Chase Stadium really seems to provide interesting entertainment for MLS 2024 football fans. He not only scored two goals and one assist in this match.

His movements, dribbles and sharpness in seeing shooting space made football fans who watched the Inter Miami vs Nashville match really entertained. It seems that 36 years of age cannot be used as a benchmark, and this is proven by Messi’s greatness.

Messi’s contribution makes him the first player since Joao Plata (2016 for Real Salt Lake) to record a goal contribution in their first six games to start a season with his goal for Inter Miami. In total, he has recorded nine goals and five assists in nine matches in all competitions this season with the club.

Messi is getting closer to Inter Miami’s all-time goal record which is still held by Gonzalo Higuain. The former Real Madrid player is recorded as having scored 29 goals.

Meanwhile, Messi has currently only collected 20 goals. But that number could increase considering that the MLS competition has only been running for 10 matches, and there are 24 remaining matches that La Pulga can still play.

Overall, Messi is recorded as the fastest player to ever score 830 goals (1,056 matches in all competitions for both club and Argentina) in football history. La Pulga is ahead of Cristiano Ronaldo (1,156 matches).

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