Nov 22, 2014
By Iain Rogers MADRID (Reuters) - If anyone had suggested when a callow teenager called Lionel Messi netted his debut La Liga goal for Barcelona in May 2005 he would equal Telmo Zarra's Spanish top-flight scoring record within a decade they would have been dismissed. Yet that is what the pint-sized 27-year-old Argentine achieved when he scored from a free kick in the 21st minute of Saturday's game at home to Sevilla to match Zarra's haul of 251 goals over 15 seasons for Athletic Bilbao in the 1940s and 50s. ... Source: Reuters
