With his goal against Panama yesterday, Argentine star Lionel Messi reached his 62nd goal from free kicks, in his career with Barcelona, Argentina and Paris Saint-Germain.
In the 89th minute of the Argentina-Panama friendly match, the "Pulga" scored his 800th goal in his career and 62 from direct free kicks.
Lionel Messi has scored 62 free kicks in his career. That’s right, SIXTY-TWO.
Here’s ALL of them ✨ [THREAD] pic.twitter.com/l9h3SvYBSR
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Yesterday, Ronaldo also scored a goal from a free kick to raise his number of goals from free kicks to 60, while Messi equalled the record of Maradona and Brazilian legend Zico by reaching 62 goals from free kicks.
These are the most goal-scoring players from direct free kicks in history.
- Brazilian goalkeeper Ruggero Seni: 59 goals.
- Brazilian Marcelinho Marioca: 59 goals.
- Dutchman Ronald Koeman: 60 goals.
- Cristiano Ronaldo: 60 goals.
- Argentine Diego Maradona: 62 goals.
- Argentina's Lionel Messi: 62 goals.
- Brazilian Zico: 62 goals.
- Englishman David Beckham: 65 goals.
- Brazilian Ronaldinho: 66 goals.
- Argentina's Victor Legrotale: 66 goals.
- Brazilian Pele: 70 goals.
- Brazilian Kaka: 77 goals.