On Tuesday night, Lionel Messi broke Barcelona's all time scor
ing record, notching a hat-trick against Granada in a 5-3 win. He has now scored 234 goals since joining the Blaugrana in 2004, passing Cesar Rodriguez record of 232 goals, who played for the Spanish giants between 1939 and 1955.
That piece of information alone is worth dwelling over. Rodriguez played until he was 35, Messi is only 24 now.
The pace that he is setting is astonishing. Earlier this month he scored five goals in one Champions League match as Barcelona humiliated Bayer Leverkusen of Germany. Nobody had ever scored five goals in a CL match before. Since then he has scored in seven straight games, and eight straight games for club and country combined.
He leads the scoring charts in Spain ahead of Cristiano Ronaldo (who in any other era would be the world's number one player by a margin), having scored 54 goals so far this season. He is poised to break Ronaldo's (the original Brazilian Ronaldo that is) single season La Liga record for Barcelona, a record he has already equalled.
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