After being crowned with the Argentine team in the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, fulfilling the most important and significant desire of his career, Lionel Messi He had a different season in 2023, as he made the decision to change his course and took a turn to play with Inter Miami in the MLS of the United States, a club in which he will continue in 2024.
Next, we will review the challenges and records that the best player in history has, both in the institution in which he plays and in the “Albiceleste” team led by Lionel Scaloni, for this new year where we will enjoy his football.
He will only have to play one minute in the 2024 Copa América to reach 35 games played in the tournament, thus surpassing the mark that he currently shares with Sergio Livingston of Chile, both with 34 appearances.
This year, the team led by Lionel Scaloni will face the mission of defending the Copa América crown that it achieved in Brazil in 2021. It will be in the tournament that will take place from June 20 to July 14 in the United States. This will be Messi's seventh participation in a Copa América, and for the first time he will seek the two-time championship.
The captain of the Argentine National Team reached 31 goals in said competition and placed himself at the top of the tournament's scorers. He is closely followed by his friend Luis Suárez, a Uruguayan who is 29 and who threatens to catch up with him. Leo wants to continue being the leader.
Messi leads alone in the number of titles achieved in the history of football: there are 44 that he has accumulated in his professional career. He does not seem to be at risk of losing this leadership, since the active player who follows him is Cristiano Ronaldo, with 35 conquests. Dani Alves is 43, but he is not playing.
Lionel is the one who has played the most games (180) and scored the most goals in the entire history of the Argentine national team (106). He also does not seem to be at risk of losing these records, which he will continue to extend.
Although Leo is up in titles, he is CR7, 38 years old, the top scorer in the history of professional sports: he accumulates 873 many in his career, with 52 goals the difference over Messi, author of 821, in the table of top scorers in the history of football. Although Leo has a better goal average (0.78 to 0.72), we know that he will seek to reach it in total goals.
In the national team he could be crowned in the aforementioned CA 2024 and also in the Paris Olympic Games; Meanwhile, at Inter they have the MLS, the Leagues Cup, the US Open Cup, the CONCACAF Champions, the Inter-American Cup and the Intercontinental Cup ahead of them, if they win the CONCACAF Champions Cup, which they will enter in the round of 16 .
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