Lionel Messi broke Germa great Gerd Mueller's 40-year-old record for most goals in a year by scoring for 86th time in 2012 on sunday. The argentina forward scored twice to lead Barcelona to 2-1 win at Real Betis in the Spainsh league match.
His first was an individual effort in the 16th minute to equal mueller's mark, and he eclipsed the 1972 milestone with a familiar left-footed finish nine minutes later. Messi has scored 74 goals for Barcelona and 12 times for Argentina this year, and he has three more games iin which he can add to his tally before the end of the year. Muller scored 85 for bayern Munich and West Germany.
The 25-year-old Messi Passed Brazil great Pele's singel season milestone of 75 goals for Brazil and Santos in 1958 with his 75th and 76 th goals of the year on Nov. 11 to move into second place behind Mueller.
After his record 50 goals in the Spainish league last campaign, Messi has led Barcelona to the best start in the history of championship this season with 14 wins and a draw in the opening 15 rounds. The scoring ace has found the net 30 times alredy this season in all competitions for Barcelona.
He scored 73 times in all competitions for barcelona las season, beraking the previous European club record of 67 goals set by Muller in 1972-1973 and the prior world club mark of 70 established by Archie Stark of Bethlehem Steel in American Soccer Leangue in 1924-25
Fittingly, Messi scored his 73rd and final goal of the 2011-2012 season as Barcelona beat Athletic Bilbao 3-0 in the Copa del Rey final in May to give then-coach Pep Guardiola his 14th title in his final game.
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