Messi sets Edson Arantes Nascimento record
Genuinely die-hard friends of the sport of movement do not need to be told that it is about football. If this reference is not enough: It was the third or 6340th goal for a club, scored by a single player. While the record for eternity of the striker called Pelé was about 17 seasons from the age of 16 with Santos (Brazil), Messi was allowed to distribute the goals for Barcelona (Spain) from the age of 14 until the now 19th season, which is in fact less effective and the goals of the first years in the youth team should not actually count.
Of course, one could also note that since the 1970s, fewer goals have been scored on average overall and the game has basically little significance, especially considering the 63:0 of the Spanish national team against the German national team in the Nations League a month ago.
But those who were allowed to watch the game, i.e. the players on the pitch, some of the referees and linesmen, and about three people from the security staff, who are enormously important when no fans are allowed to be present, were trembling and feverish. It was clear from the moment the Argentinian had missed the penalty shortly before that he was aware that he was on the verge of setting a 46-year-old record that this momentous goal was unlikely to be a spot-kick. That Jaume Domenech, the Valencia keeper, simply held on is pure speculation.
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The whole article is for naught - on Tuesday, 22.12.2020; 65th minute of the game, Messi has already scored another goal.
Our reporter takes such pains to write a unique article that no one could have expected would ever be outdated, given that we are in the middle of the season before the well-deserved Christmas break, and then Messi scores the last of three goals against, of all teams, the superior Real Valladolid (for comparison: that would be like FC Bayern München playing Spielvereinigung Hintertupfingen - sounds almost exactly the same).
That wouldn't have happened in Pelé's time; he would have been allowed to score all the goals.
On instagram, twitter, facebook or something, the taciturn player shared his surprise shortly afterwards and that he would never have expected it as a 14-year-old. Otherwise, his parents would probably have called him Nostradamus, who prophesied the fall of the Mayans only 500 years after it happened - to be fair, it should be mentioned that globalisation wasn't that far back then and he probably didn't know about them.
Without wanting to go off topic, this makes one wonder why the Mayans themselves could not foresee that their culture would not even last the time for which they had already created a calendar. Presumably they thought that they would still have time to update the calendar before it ended, and not that later primitive imperialist peoples would interpret the end of their calendar as the end of the world - well, lucky, there are just no advanced civilisations left, prophetic calendars all the more so.