Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Players to Know: #2 Lionel Messi

Forward, Argentina
Here’s a stat for you. In the 2011-12 campaign for Spain’s La Liga, Lionel Messi tallied 50 goals in 36 games for Barcelona; in doing so he outscored 13 of the league’s 20 teams by himself. On March 16 of this year, Messi became FC Barcelona's all-time scoring leader with 371 goals breaking a record that had held since 1927. He was only 26 years old on that day. Messi scores goals in many shapes and sizes, and they come so frequently it's as if he were playing FIFA '14 on easy mode. How is this possible?