Argentine star Lionel Messi Barcelona striker looks to
continue his favorite hobby in achieving and destroying records, during the
upcoming confrontation against Real Madrid on Sunday in the Spanish league
Clasico at the "Santiago Bernabeu" within 29 round competitions of
"La Liga".
"Flea" has become the top scorer of the historic
Catalan team with 371 goals, after scoring "hat-trick" against
Osasuna in a match which ended in a landslide victory for Barca 7-0 last
Sunday, breaking the previous record scored in the name Paulinho Alcantara, who
scored 369 goals for the Blaugrana.
And the Spanish newspaper "Marca" threw light on
the new number awaits Messi if he succeeded in shaking the nets of Real with
one or more goals in the next Clasico, which will make the Argentine star,
break record of Mexican Hugo Sanchez former striker Royal, who scored 234
goals, while Messi scored 232 goals.
It noted that Sanchez scored goals in 12 seasons, including
54 goals during the period from 1981 to 1985 with Athletic Bilbao shirt, and
164 goals Real Madrid shirt during the period from 1985 to 1992, 16 goals with Rayo
Vallecano season 1994/1993.
It added that Messi succeeded on recent February 15 to break
the Alfredo Di Stefano number scoring target 227, and a week later he draw Raul
Gonzalez number by a goal at Real Sociedad, and separated by only 19 goals from
scorer historical Ouija Telmo Zarra who scored 251 goals in 15 seasons with
Athletic Bilbao, and still firm his own record since 1955.
And Lionel Messi regained his level in the recent period
after recovering from a groin injury sidelined him for two months, where he
scored 12 goals in 9 games, raising his tally to 18 goals in the Spanish league
behind all of Cristiano Ronaldo, the Real Madrid striker, and Diego Costa
striker Atletico Madrid.
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