Barcelona maestro Lionel Messi has clinched the fourth Pichichi Trophy of his career after topping La Liga's goalscoring charts for 2016-17 with an astonishing 37 goals. Goal noted Messi as this ...

Cristiano Ronaldo believes he would have won more individual awards than Lionel Messi if the pair played on the same team but also praised his rival. It would be interesting to see both of us in the ...

On the final day of 2016, we now know who the top scorers are for the entire year. Lionel Messi finished with 51 goals for Barcelona to take home the honor (no trophy given out, but you get the idea), ...

Lionel Messi (R), pictured here with Luis Suarez, celebrates after scoring his team’s fourth goal during the La Liga match between FC Barcelona and Real Betis Balompie at Camp Nou on Aug. 20, 2016 in ...

GOAL revisits THAT fateful night when Lionel Messi seemed to convince himself and the world he would retire from the Argentina national team "My thinking right now, and thinking about it in the locker ...

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In the history of El Clásico, no player has scored more goals across all competitions than Messi, who has 21 to his credit. That’s three more goals than late Real Madrid great Alfredo Di Stefano, and ...

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A Spanish court has found Argentine footballer Lionel Messi guilty of tax fraud. The soccer star has been sentenced to 21 months in prison. The sentence is significant because, as with Messi's ...

A court in Spain has sentenced Lionel Messi, widely hailed as one of the best soccer players alive, to 21 months in jail for tax fraud. Messi 's father, Jorge Horacio Messi, received the same sentence ...

“Who is prepared for all this?” said Jorge Messi in 2016. “Maybe nobody is. I tried to see how the other footballers managed things. It’s hardly that difficult.” Nobody could really have been ready to ...