Lionel Messi admitted Gerard Pique's goal was not a training ground masterpiece as Barcelona beat PSV Eindhoven 2-1 on Wednesday to seal top spot in their Champions League group for a 12th consecutive season. Barcelona’s Miralem Pjanic (26) and Inter’s Aleksander Kolarov (22) complete the top-five list.You have reached a degraded version of because you're using an unsupported version of Internet Explorer.įor a complete experience, please upgrade or use a supported browserīarcelona's Lionel Messi calls 'rehearsed' Gerard Pique goal 'a lie' Thei r immediate competition is the new Inter Milan signing, Hakan Calhanoglu, who has scored 27 goals via direct-free kicks. Most free-kick goals in football history PlayerĪs far as active footballers are concerned, no one comes close to the likes of Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. Since joining Juventus, Ronaldo took 72 free-kicks scoring only 1. Former Brazil and Sao Paulo goalkeeper, Rogerio Ceni is 10th on the list for most free-kick goals (59) in football history. Interestingly, modern day greats Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo (56) are not even in the top-10 list for footballers with most goals via free-kick. Second on the list is Brazilian legend Pele, who netted 70 goals from direct free-kicks.
ĭuring his two-decade-long career, Juninho scored 77 free-kicks for club and country.
That number, however, is considerably lower than former Lyon and Brazil midfielder, Juninho Pernambucano, who has scored the most free-kick goals in football history. Messi’s figure of 58 free-kick goals is just four shy of Diego Maradona ’s total of 62 goals from direct free-kicks. Of those 58 goals, 50 have come for Barcelona while eight have come for his national side. The 34-year-old scored through a freekick to take his tally to 58 free-kick goals. That goal was Messi’s 57th free-kick goal for club and country.Ī couple of weeks later, Messi produced a Man of the Match performance by scoring once and assisting twice in his team’s 3-0 win over Ecuador in the quarter-final of Copa America 2021. On June 15, 2021, Lionel Messi ’s 33rd minute free-kick against Chile in a 1-1 draw at the Copa America 2021 took the Argentine ahead of Cristiano Ronaldo in the list for most free-kick goals by an active footballer.
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