20, MAR 07 17:50
Messi sets new personal best BARÇA BITE
Belletti and Valdés play in the 'Game Against Poverty'Monday night's charity match in Marseille featured a 'Friends of
Zidane' team playing against the 'Friends of Ronaldo'. Valdés and
Belletti both started the match, the former in the Frenchman's side and
the latter alongside his Brazilian compatriot. Although the result was
of less importance that what the occasion symbolised, it was the
'Friends of Zidane' who won the game by a resounding 6-2.
After
scoring against Recreativo, Leo Messi has now set a new personal league
record. The Argentine striker has scored 7 goals in the 15 matches he
has played in.
Despite
being sidelined for three months through injury, Leo Messi has still
managed to set a new personal record for league goals. Two seasons ago,
when Messi made his first team debut, he scored just one goal, while
last season he managed 6 in 17 matches. This term has seen him improve
on that number, having just scored for the seventh time in 15
appearances. At the 19 years of age, the youngster is improving as each
year goes by.
A goal to go down in historyLeo
Messi scored his first official goal in a Barça shirt on May 1, 2005.
That was against Albacete in the league, and at just 17 years, 10
months and 7 days, it meant he goes down as the youngest player to ever
score a league goal for the club. It was a great start to a career that
has seen the player go from strength to strength.
Demonstrating his prowessIt was last season that we began to appreciate just what a
goalscoring talent Messi is. He scored in three different competitions,
the League, Champions League and Cup. In the former he scored six
times, including two against Mallorca in just a quarter of an hour. He
was also on target in Europe against Panathinaikos and in the Copa del
Rey against Zaragoza.
Even moreBut
this season is proving to be the best yet for Leo Messi. He has just
scored four goals in two games, making a total of seven, with eleven
games still to play. Before his injury, Messi scored a crucial
Champions League goal against Werder Bremen. We no longer need to speak
of this player's promising future. The future, for this amazing talent,
has already arrived.