The professional stature of an athlete, his career and the summary of his career are objectively measured in statistics.

Figures that can lead to interpretations, discussions and qualifications.

Data that can be accepted in absolute or relative terms.

But numbers that defend themselves and suppose the supreme concretion.

Partial or total, major or minor, temporary or definitive statistics fed by victories, titles, trophies, etc., that place its owner in a certain place in the history of the sport.

Leo Messi

reached another statistical peak in world football.

Prelude to the next.

With 643 goals in 747 games wearing the shirt of the same club, Barcelona, ​​equaled the 643 goals scored by

Pelé

in 757 games in the ranks of Santos.

We are talking about goals in official matches.

Leo has scored 450 in the League, 53 in the Cup, 118 in the Champions League, 14 in the Spanish Super Cup, 3 in the European Super Cup and 5 in the Club World Cup

.

And it won't stop here ...

The account was started on

May 1, 2005

.

Messi scored a goal, the second, in Barcelona's 2-0 league win against Albacete (the first was from Eto'o).

Throughout the following years, the Argentine grew in capacity to achieve, in the 2011-12 season, a figure that exceeded the exaggeration to enter the paroxysm.

There were 73 goals, 50 of them in 37 league games

.

The following season was also one of astonishment: 60 goals, 42 of them in 32 league games.

In the total of his seven "pichichis", only in that case of top scorer, Messi has scored 261 goals in 241 games

.

Identification with the club

Messi, a sporting advantage and an economic inconvenience in the current situation of Barça, thus further reinforces his dual football identification (always) and human (still?) With the entity.

After the death, as disorderly as his life, of Maradona, after that posthumous mess, the comparisons between those considered, in general, the best footballers of all time have returned to the fore.

In order of age: Di Stéfano, Pelé, Cruyff, Maradona and Messi.

Of the quintet, Pele and Messi represent the fidelity added to a shield;

full stability in a guild subject, due to the nature of the market rules, to changes in geography and colors.

A trade characterized by variable ideas and nomadic loves.

Each one in his time, Pele and Messi could not have been better paid (especially, in absolute and relative terms, Messi).

But such loyalties in such long careers under the same flag seem to respond to the equating of ideals with interests.

To the reason of the heart next to that of the pocket.

They would indicate, after all, that feelings may not be bought.

Not sold.

At least completely.

One more reason for adoration on the part of the fan, who only gets tired of seeing repeated faces when they do not respond to expectations.

Pelé and Messi, then, are the supreme representatives of the man of a single team.

From the

one club man

.

Nobody would withdraw that title from Messi because he played until the age of 12 in the Newells children.

He was too young.

Not because Pelé left for three years, at 35, to the Cosmos.

He was too old.

We'll see if Leo jumps to another team at the end of this campaign.

It would give the same.

His figure, now and forever, is linked to the same city, the same stadium, the same world.

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