Lionel Messi broke another record: the south american top scorers for their countries

Lionel Messi has one of the most promising and award-winning football careers in history, which has made him a reference in everything that refers to a first-line play style.

There is no doubt that at only 34 years old, Lionel Messi has made history in the world of football. His most recent achievement is to become the player of South American teams with more goals in history. If you are interested, keep reading and here you can find the latests news about international competitions.

A new record for the argentinian star  

Thanks to playing against the Bolivian team in the South American qualifiers, where Argentina was victorious 3-0, Messi now enjoys a new achievement. 

This achievement also ratified his good level that continues intact after fulfilling his great dream by winning the Copa America in Brazil, a title that had already escaped his hands on several occasions, click here to learn more about Lionel Messi and his records.

With this new mark the argentine manages to overcome Edson Arantes do Nascimento, better known as Pelé. 

This definitely was a very difficult task for him since the Brazilian made many records during his career as a footballer. Among some of them is to achieve the tri-world football championship with the Brazilian team.

In the last Copa America he also surpassed another argentine icon with whom he shared many moments in the national team, Javier Mascherano. Messi reached 154 games with the national team and was left with the most presences.

Lionel Messi places his national team on the top positions in the World Cup qualifiers, being closer and closer to achieving his presence in the Qatar 2022 World Cup and this time they will try to achieve total glory by lifting the cup of this tournament.

Top scorers  

In addition to Messi, there are several South American players who have managed to get a place in the table of the top scorers in this continent, which continues to demonstrate the great football quality that can be found in this part of the world.

Lionel Messi: 79 (Argentina), Pelé: 77 (Brazil), Neymar: 69 (Brazil), Luis Suárez: 64 (Uruguay), Ronaldo: 62 (Brazil) and many others.

Messi, in addition, entered the Top 10 of the top scorers in the history of the world teams, surpassing the line of 75 goals of the Hungarian Sándor Kocsis and Bashar Abdullah of Kuwait and is sixth in the overall table.