Lionel Messi: Video Collects All 401 Goals of His Career

Lionel Messi scored his 400th and 401st professional goals Saturday in a 6-0 win over Grenada. One Messi fan has spliced together all 401 of these goals in a 50-minute video on Vimeo, including commentary (note: lots of Ray Hudson) that begins with his first goal for Barcelona back in 2005 and ends with Saturday’s double.

Messi’s famous goal vs. Getafe in the 2007 Copa del Rey comes at the 2:30 mark. Amazingly, in retrospect, that was only his 20th career goal. People raved about the goal and compared it to Diego Maradona’s in the 1986 World Cup. Back then everyone knew Messi was going to be good, but he’s probably surpassed expectations and is firmly in the conversation for the greatest soccer player of all time.

Either way I kind of miss the young, floppy-haired version of Messi when he lived up to his nickname, “the Flea.”

One other thing: Messi is 27 years old. He now has 401 goals in 524 appearances.