Homage to Messi

After his goalscoring feats last night he overtook Gerd Mueller for the most goals in a calendar for both club and country but what also went unnoticed was he passed Barcelona's legendary other goalscorer Cesar Rodriguez. Whose 190 goals in La Liga was broken as well last night as Messi took his tally to 192 goals.

But in homage to Messi, here are all his goals in 2012 so far (86 goals):

As Mundo Deportivo's football report said about Messi recently in its full column, "There are no words" .

At the age of 25, 314 goals in 428 senior appearances both at club and national level, those words above sum up this genius in a nutshell. Gerd Mueller's glowing words this morning are just another feather in hat but Messi takes it in his stride. What he said last night after record breaking goals shows how humble for one so great, Messi said:

"The record is great for what it means, but the most important thing is that the team won and that we maintained the distance with the teams behind us," 

"When the year starts the objective is to win it all with the team, personal records are secondary."

He did also add to the above, "I'll try to score more goals to make it more difficult for the next player that tries to break it."

Resident Spanish football writer Sid Lowe wrote: "There are no more superlatives to describe Messi.", for  further read check out Sid's article on the following link below.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2012/dec/10/lionel-messi-86-goals-record

Few have said he needs to win a World Cup to be considered the greatest, I don't why this is used as a negative to beat Messi with, not as if he can win the World Cup at 25 on his when there isn't a World Cup taken place this year. Which despite breaking Gerd Mueller's record because he hasn't won the League, Champions League and World Cup in the same takes away from his achievement is the biggest load of rubbish I have seen in a long time.

It's not many times you will see genuinely a genius like this in his element, when you have two of them as football lovers its great to watch them(Messi and Ronaldo) go ahead to ahead to be the greatest. Having never seen Maradona, Pele in his hey day but having seen Zidane. I thought Zidane would be the greatest I have seen watching football, but two have come along and surpassed them. In particular Lionel Messi, for breaking records this year which have stood for 40 years both by one of the greatest goalscorers in European football is unreal. Last season, finishing with a tally of 73 goals on top of 29 assists he broke Mueller's other record for most goals in a season in European football history. 

For all the above, I just want to pay homage to Lionel Messi. The little man who was diagnosed with growth hormone deficiency who has already become one of the greats of a game long in history by the age of 25. Only more to come I hope.