It was running in minute 94, with the score tied at three goals per side, when Lionel Messi rubbed the lamp and scored a great goal from a free kick to give Paris Saint-Germain the victory over Lille and return to victory after three consecutive falls.
With this annotation, Messi reached 11 goals this season in the French league (also accumulates 10 assists), but the most outstanding thing is that he scored from a free kick for the 61st time in his career, equaling Diego Armando Maradona in that statistic.
Throughout his glorious career, Messi scored 50 free-kick goals for Barcelona, 9 for the Argentine national team and another 2 for PSG, his current club. El Pelusa, for his part, made 20 in Argentinos Juniors, 5 in Boca, 5 in Barcelona, 24 in Napoli, one in Seville, 4 in the Argentine National Team and another two in the Under-19 National Team.
Anyway, Messi still has a long way to go if he wants to become the player with the most free-kick goals in football history since he is 16 behind Juninho Pernambucano, who scored 77 with the jerseys of the Brazil National Team, Sport Recife, Vasco da Gama, Lyon, Al-Gharafa and New York Red Bull.
Maradona, Messi’s teacher?
The historic physical trainer of Diego Armando Maradona, Fernando Signorini, reported that in February 2009a few months after Maradona took over as technical director of the National Team, Pelusa gave him some tips to improve his technique.
“Lionel put the ball facing the goal, a little to the left and when he hit it, his shot went far, above the angle of Juan Pablo Carrizo’s right hand. He made a gesture of annoyance and, as he headed for the locker room, I went out to the crossroads ”, began the story of him Signorini.
“’Tell me something, is a player like you going to take a shower with that crap? He’ll catch a ball and try again.’ I finish pronouncing that and I see Diego coming, who had heard everything, as always, ”he continued.
According to the former physical trainer of Diez, Maradona took Messi by the shoulder and told him: “Read, come. Let’s do it back. Put the ball here and listen to me carefully, don’t take your foot off the ball so quickly, because if you don’t, she doesn’t know what you want”.
“Then, he caressed it with his left foot and nailed it in the corner, inflating the net before Messi’s admiring gaze. I turned around and did not want to see more, it was enough. There was Argentine soccer, ”he closed.
