- Messi has scored 14,560 goals in 1,000 games(Including goals scored in his back garden in Argentina)
- Messi averages 400 assists per season
- Messi is the the holder of the record for most one touch passes in one game at 11,000.
- Messi once took a shot in a Barcelona B game in Bilbao and after it beat their keeper it kept going all the way to Barcelona and was counted as an offical assist for a Samuel Etoo tap in.
- Messi won the world player of the year for 10 years running from 2009 to 2019*
- Messi has never passed the ball backwards.
- Messi can say the sentence "No but it's a team effort" in 30 languages.
- Messi considers the 30 yard volley to be his regular first touch
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