[인터풋볼] Reporter Oh Jong-heon = Lionel Messi scored his 650th goal in Barcelona with a free kick. How many free kick goals did Messi’s career rank in history?
Barcelona won 2-1 over Athletic Bilbao in the 21st round of the Spanish Primera Liga in the 2020-21 season held at Camp Nou in Barcelona, Spain at 5 am on the 1st. With this, Barcelona scored five consecutive wins, surpassing Real Madrid to reach second place in the league (40 points).
At the beginning of the game, Barcelona scored the first goal. In the 19th minute, Messi shook Bilbao’s goal with a fantastic free kick. Barcelona scored an own goal in the early hours of the second half, but Gryzman’s winning goal in the 29th minute of the second half beat Bilbao.
The first contributor to victory was Messi. Messi received a score of 9.7, the highest score of both teams, based on the football statistics media’Whoscore.com’. On this day, Messi successfully dribbled 11 times, recording 2 effective shots, 4 key passes, 5 crosses, and a 100% long pass.
Messi scored his 650th goal in Barcelona (456 league goals). Since it is currently the highest scorer in Barcelona’s history and La Liga is the number one goal in all time, if Messi stays in Barcelona next season, he will break a new record every time he scores.
In addition, Messi scored 49 goals (38 in the league) with just a free kick in Barcelona. Based on the last 5 seasons, only 21 goals scored in free kicks. It’s more than the combined 2nd place, Alexander Kolarov and James Ward Prouss (more than 8 goals) among the five European league players.
If so, how many career free kick goals Messi scored while playing for Barcelona and Argentina football team among all the players? Messi has scored a total of 55 free kick goals so far. This is the 11th place in history.
The largest free kick goal ever in history was Juninho (77 goals), who played for Olympiad Lyon. Juninho is famous for his’no-turn kick’. David Beckham, who was called the magician of free kicks, was ranked 5th with 65 goals and Ronaldinho placed 4th with 66 goals.
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