5 Things Lionel Messi Must Still Achieve To Become Greatest Ever Footballer

2. Surpass Pele's Goal Scoring Record

pele Okay, so this is a bit unrealistic due to the fact Pele in total scored 1,281 goals in his career while Messi is currently sitting on 288 goals for Barcelona and 31 for Argentina. However the actual number of goals that Pele scored has been disputed in the past and it has been said that he officially scored 757 goals. Even though Messi's chances of scoring over a thousand goals are immensely slim it is important that he keeps scoring at the same impressive rate he is at the moment for years to come so that his career total is up there with the best. In early December of 2012 the Argentine broke the record for most goals scored in a single calender year by finding the back of the net 86 times, beating Gerd Mueller's total of 85 that was set in 1972. So at least he will have that record to fall back on...
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