Jakarta, CNN Indonesia —
After Cristiano Ronaldo became the top scorer at international level with 111 goals, Lionel Messi have a chance to approach the Portuguese player’s goal at the same time passing the number of goals Skin.
Messi, who has been training with the Argentine national team, has the opportunity to play in the 2022 World Cup qualifying match which will take place Friday (3/9) morning Indonesian time.
With the Tango team, Messi has scored 76 goals in 151 games since 2005.
The PSG player’s goal record is on par with United Arab Emirates’ Ali Mabkhout. Messi is currently only one goal behind Brazilian legend Pele.
If he scores one goal, then Messi will match Pele’s record. But it is possible that Messi can score two goals against Venezuela, thus taking him over Pele.
Messi has scored four goals against Venezuela. Three of these four goals were scored while defending Argentina in the World Cup qualifying event, and the other in the Copa America Centenario championship.
In the 2022 World Cup qualifiers, Messi has only scored two goals, namely when he brought Argentina to a 1-0 win over Ecuador and when they drew 1-1 with Chile.
In the list of top scorers in the international arena, apart from trailing Pele, Messi is also still behind Hussein Saeed (78 goals), Godfrey Chitalu (79 goals), and Ferenc Puskas (84 goals).
While the occupants of the top three lists of international football’s top scorers are Ronaldo (111 goals), Ali Daei (109 goals), and Mokhtar Dahari (89 goals).
Ronaldo confirmed his superiority over Daei after scoring two goals against Ireland, Thursday (2/9) early in the morning Indonesian time.
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