translated from Spanish: Messi surpassed Pele’s record and is top scorer in South American teams

Lionel Messi’s return to Argentina came with an extra prize. In addition to the celebrations for the Copa America, came the 3-0 thrashing against Bolivia with three of the great Argentine figure who with those goals managed to set a new record with the Argentine National Team.In this case, Leo broke a mark of Pelé that he maintained for 50 years and in this way he was consecrated as the top scorer of South American Selections, with 79 goals, putting themselves above all at the top.
In this way, the “Flea” has ahead of him an almost impossible mark such as being the top scorer in national teams in the world, a mark led by Cristiano Ronaldo with 111 goals, breaking the record in the last FIFA date, surpassing Ali Daei of Iran. Messi, on the other hand, had already been left with another mark of Pelé: when he surpassed with Barcelona the 643 goals he had scored in a single club, Santos of Brazil. On the other hand, in the recent Copa America Messi set another record: with six editions played, he equaled the highest amount for an Argentine who belonged to Américo Tesoriere, historic goalkeeper of Boca who participated in the editions of 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924 and 1925.

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