Zarra was the top scorer of the Spanish league for close to 60 years. A feat he achieved in 1955 and which took 17years to achieve. Messi smashed that record with a hat trick against Sevilla; Breaking the record in just 10years at the age of 27. He has 253 goals while Zarra had 251.


“When I scored this goal (his first goal set up by Ronaldinho), I couldn’t imagine I
could break any record, let alone this one
previously held by the great Telmo Zarra,” he
wrote on his official Facebook page alongside
his first Barca goal against Albacete in May,
2005.

Cometh the hour, cometh the man. Messi wrote his name into folklore by smashing the record with an exquisite freekick finding the too left corner, with the keeper colliding with the post. A



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