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[Thread] Why it’s impossible to replicate Lionel Messi’s career...

If you scored 40 goals a season for 15 years, you'd retire with 600 goals to your name.
Lionel Messi currently has 742 career goals ⚽

Lionel Messi has scored 1.3% of the goals scored in Champions League history (In just 147 games)
-He has also scored or assisted 10% of goals scored by Barca (in its entire history)...
🤯🤯🤯🤯

In the 2010s, 49,668 goals were scored across the top five European leagues...
1 in 100 of these goals were scored or assisted by Lionel Messi
😳...

Messi's goals involvements have won 416 points for Barca/Argentina...
👉That's 29% of the total points won by the two teams
Carry job. 🐐

Lionel Messi, ≥ 15 goals in the last 15 seasons!
1️⃣7️⃣ in 06/07
1️⃣6️⃣ in 07/08
3️⃣8️⃣ in 08/09
4️⃣7️⃣ in 09/10
5️⃣3️⃣ in 10/11
7️⃣3️⃣ in 11/12
6️⃣0️⃣ in 12/13
4️⃣1️⃣ in 13/14
5️⃣8️⃣ in 14/15
4️⃣1️⃣ in 15/16
5️⃣4️⃣ in 16/17
4️⃣5️⃣ in 17/18
5️⃣1️⃣ in 18/19
3️⃣1️⃣ in 19/20
3️⃣7️⃣ in 20/21 ... and counting.

Lionel Messi has provided 10+ assists for 14 consecutive years...
2020: 19 ✅
2019: 18 ✅
2018: 26 ✅
2017: 16 ✅
2016: 31 ✅
2015: 26 ✅
2014: 22 ✅
2013: 16 ✅
2012: 22 ✅
2011: 36 ✅
2010: 17 ✅
2009: 15 ✅
2008: 18 ✅
2007: 12 ✅
Consistency.

In terms of individual awards, Messi has won it all... no one comes close
Most notably:
6️⃣ Ballon d’ors
6️⃣ European golden shoes
4️⃣ IFFHS World's Best Playmaker
7️⃣ Pichichi
1️⃣ Laureus Award (Only athlete from a team sport to EVER win this)
...

[Trophies]
-2 Trebles (1 sextuple)
-35 Major trophies (4th most in history)

[Records]
Guinness World Record for the most official goals in a calendar year: 91 goals in 2012

2️⃣0️⃣Goals + 2️⃣0️⃣Assists (19/20) [2000-]
Other than Messi only Thierry Henry has managed this (Messi in fewer games and while in his thirties)

Most consecutive league matches scored in: 21 matches (33 goals) (2012/13) 🤯

🔵🔴Most official senior goals scored for a single club: 671 goals for Barcelona
Absolutely unbreakable.

🎖Most Man of the Match awards at a single World Cup finals tournament: 4 in 2014
⚽️Only player to score at a World Cup finals in his teens, his twenties and his thirties
🅰️Only player to make one or more assist in 4 World Cup finals tournaments