Lionel Messi Joins Cristiano Ronaldo in Exclusive 900-Goal Club: A Look at the Stats Behind the Milestone
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In the seventh minute of Inter Miami’s Concacaf Champions Cup match against Nashville SC, Lionel Messi fired home through the legs of a defender, a precise finish to bring up his 900th career goal.
Messi joins an elite list of players with 900 goals, behind Cristiano Ronaldo who leads with 965 goals and counting in his career.
Messi's 900 goals include 672 for FC Barcelona, 32 for Paris Saint-Germain, and 115 for Argentina, leading the Albiceleste to the FIFA World Cup in 2022.
He has scored 756 goals with his left foot, 110 with his right foot, and 30 with headers, with the remaining four goals scored via miscellaneous parts of his body.
Messi's most prolific teams to score against include Sevilla, with 38 goals, and Real Madrid, with 26 goals.
Between 2009 and 2019, Messi was at his goal-scoring zenith, scoring at least 40 goals per calendar year in each of those 11 seasons.
