Lionel Messi He gave another show in Inter Miami’s overwhelming 6-2 victory against New York RB in the MLS and also broke the historical record for assists for a player in the American league, with 5. But in addition, the man from Rosario scored a goal that adds in his personal statistics in the race to be the top scorer in historysince for the moment it corresponds to Cristiano Ronaldo.
He Messiah is on track to be the top scorer in the short life of the Miami franchise, which was founded in 2018 but began formally competing in 2020. Current statistics have the former Argentine scorer Pipe Higuaín with 29 scores in 70 gamesfollowed by the Ecuadorian Leonardo Campana with 25 goals in 74 presentations. The 36-year-old from Rosario arrived at 23 celebrations with the Herons.
The official statistics of the site Messi Stats they mark that Leo currently adds 833 goals and 372 assists in 1,057 games who played in his career dividing the figures between Barcelona (672 goals and 269 assists in 778 games), the Argentine national team (106 goals and 54 assists in 180 games), PSG (32 goals and 34 assists in 75 games) and Inter Miami ( 23 goals and 15 assists in 24 games).
On the other hand, Cristiano remains firm with his scoring ability: he has 890 points and 250 assists in 1220 presentations. Before the 61 goals What he has added so far in Saudi Arabia, the 39-year-old Portuguese accumulated shouts at Real Madrid (450), Manchester United (145), Juventus (101), Sporting Lisbon (5) and the Portuguese national team (128).
The Current difference between the Portuguese and the Rosario is 57 scores away in this hand-to-hand fight to be the top gunner in history.
Another dispute will soon be revived: being the top scorer at the national team level. Nowadays, Cristiano leads that historical table with 128 shouts in 206 games with the Portugal shirt; while Leo signed 106 goals in 180 games. Here the distance is 22 points.
Between the two of them appears the figure of the Iranian Ali Daeiwho throughout his career in his country’s team (1993 to 2006) accumulated 109 scores in 149 matchesaccording to data from the International Federation of Football History and Statistics (IFFHS). It should be noted that the current second highest scorer in history at the national team level claims to have 111 goals and that FIFA does not validate that figure because it does not count a double against Afghanistan.
Before the start of the Copa América and the Euro Cup, which will have them as the main protagonists, the fight for goals will have different stops depending on the agenda: Inter Miami will clash with Montreal Impact (11-5), Orlando City (15-5), D.C. United (18-5), Vancouver Whitecaps (25-5), Atlanta United (29-5) and St.Louis City (1-6).
Although it will be necessary to see if Messi misses any of these matches to take care of his physique in the face of the demands with the Argentine team. He June 9 will play the first preparatory friendly against Ecuador and then, on the 13th, he will appear before Guatemala, both duels in the United States. The official path in the continental competition will be Thursday June 20 in it Mercedes-Benz Stadium of Atlanta against Canada for Group A. Then he will go with Chili (Tuesday, June 25) and Peru (Saturday June 29).
The journey of CR7 will put him against Al Akhdoud (9/5), Al Hilal (17/5), Al Riyadh (23/5) and Al Ittihad (27/5), as a preliminary to what will be the friendlies with the Portuguese team in view of Finland (4/6), Croatia (8/6) and Ireland (6/11) that will serve as preparation for the start of the Euro: they will debut in Group F on June 18 against Czech Republic in it Leipzig Stadium from Germany. His agenda will continue against Türkiye (6/22) and Georgia (6/26).
