ARGENTINA'S TOP GOAL SCORERS.

  Like many South Americans Argentina have produced very good footballers, The list of the top goalscorers.

1) Lionel Messi.  71. Seventy one goals.

2) Gabriel Batistuta.  54. Goals

3)Sergio Aguero.        41. Goals.

4)Hernan Crespo.        35. Goals

5)Diego  Maradona.       33. Goals.

LIONEL MESSI AND PELE ARE THE HIGHEST GOAL SCORERS FOR THEIR COUNTRY.

 Now Lionel Messi  is getting nearer and nearer  to that magical figure of 77 , seventy seven goals set by 

the great Brazilian striker Pele.

 Lionel Messi has a total of 71, seventy one goals, he is the top goal scorer for Argentina.

 He took over Gabriel Batistuta some time ago , he has 65, sixty five goals for Argentina.

 And still these brainless Lionel Messi haters  say that Lionel Messi has done nothing  for Argentina, please do some reading.

FRANCK RIBERY JOINS FLORENTINA ON A FREE TRANSFER.

The famous French winger Franck Ribery ha now gone and joined the Italian club from Florence , Florentina . He had been released as a player from the German giants Bayern Munich along with the Dutch winger Arjen Robben, at the end of last season. He flew down to Florence in a private jet to be greeted b a he crowd in Florence. Before joining Florentina he asked the former Italian striker Lucas Toni about the famous club, and the Italian had only good things to say of Florentina. Now Franck Ribery has gone and signed a two year contract with Florentina, and will be getting a yearly sum of 3.6 million pounds or in two years he will be getting 7.2 million pounds as salary for the two years. There is a statue of the famous son of Florentina at the stadium ground, and he is none other then the famous Argentinean striker Gabriel Batistuta, who stayed with the club even when they were demoted, he got the club p the following year and then only went to A.S.Roma.

LIONEL MESSI SCORES HIS FIFTITH HAT TRICK FOR BARCELONA.

Lionel Messi in the La Liga match played between Barcelona and Seville , on 23/2/2019The match had ended in a 4-2 victory for Barcelona. The math result was made all the more sweeter for the Barcelona fans world over as it marked the fiftieth hat trick by Lionel Messi for Barcelona, only Cristiano Ronaldo has scored more hat tricks then Lionel Messi he has fifty one hat tricks, and the race is ell and truly on. But it was also goal number 36 thirty six in 35 , thirty five games for Lionel Messi It was also goal number 650, six hundred and fifty for Lionel Messi, he has now gone and scored a total of 585, five hundred and eighty five goals for Barcelona . And he has scored 65, sixty five goals for Argentina, he is the top goal scorer for Argentina with sixty five goals, he now has over taken Gabriel Batistuta , mind you Gabriel Batistuta is the only footballer to score two world cup hat tricks at two world cups , that is 1994/1998. And Lionel Messi already has made 227 assists for Barcelona, in his glittering career at Barcelona.

LIONEL MESSI WRITES HIS NAME INTO THE RECORD BOOKS.

Lionel Messi has now gone and written his name well into the the world cup record books. Even as he had not scored a single goal at the 2018 world cup, for a very long period of 664 ,six hundred and sixty four minutes. Now this to far a time gap for a player of the class of Lionel Messi , a footballer who has scored 653 six hundred and fifty three goals for Barcelona. Now the big question is will the flood gates open for Lionel Messi.> Now Lionel Messi is the first world cup player to score a goal as a teenager ,and in his twenties as well as his thirties. No footballer has done this since 1930 first world cup. Lionel Messi becomes the third footballer at a world cup to score at three different world cups. The others to do it are Diego Maradona, Gabriel Batistuta and Lionel Messi. Please note all three are Argentineans. Please note Lionel Messi failed to score a single goal in the 2010 world cup in South Africa.

SOME VERY BIG FOOTBALLERS NEVER TO WIN THE BALLON d "OR .

Over the years some very big footballers have missed out winning the Ballon d Or.Have a look will you. 1 ) Thierry Henry. 2) Didier Drogba. 3) Dennis Bergkamp. 4) Alessandro Del Piero. 5) Francesco Totti. 6) Gabriel Batistuta. 7) Romario. 8) Raul Gonzales . 9) Ryan Giggs. 10) Patrick Vieira. 11) Gianlugi Buffon. 12 Alan Shearer.

SERGIO AGUERO FAVOURITE FOOTBALLERS WERE BATISTUTA AND MARADONA. AND THIS ONE A WELL.

It was natural for Sergio Aguero to have favourite footballers from South America. His favourite were Gabriel Batistuta and Diego Maradona. 1) Gabriel Batistuta . He is the only footballer ever to score two hat tricks at the F.I.F.A world cup ever. 2) Diego Maradona. Who single handedly lead Argentina to the world cup in in 1986. He was also thrown out of the F.I.F.A world cup in 1994 in the U.S.A. 3) His favourite E.P.L footballer he watched as a child wa Michael Owen at Liverpool. Owen scored 40 , forty goals for England before injury ruined his career.

SO FAR 49 HAT TRICKS HAVE BEEN SCORED IN WORLD CUP HISTORY.

When the German Thomas Muller scored the first hat trick in the 2014 world cup match verses Portugal it also became the 49th hat trick in World cup history, that is from the first world cup match played in 1930 in Uruguay. But Gabriel Batistuta of Argentina is the only footballer in world cup history to score hat tricks in two successive world cups .

FOOTBALLERS TO BE TRANSFERED IN THEIR THIRTIES.

We seldom read of footballers who are in big demand in their thirties and clubs willing to pay huge sums for them. 1) Gabriel Batistuta. Joined Roma from Florentia 23.5 million pounds. At the age of 31 years. 2) Zalatan Ibrahimovic was 31 years old when he joined from barcelona to P.S.G. for 15.3 million pounds. 3) David Ginola was 33 years old when he joined Aston Villa fromTottenham Hotspurs for3 million pounds in 2000.

LIVERPOOL WANTED TO SIGN BATISTUTA TO PARTNER ROBBIE FOWLER.

 Liverpool manager Mr Evans once wanted to sign the great Argentinean striker Gabriel Batistuta  , from the Italian club  Fiorentina..
 The aim was to  get him to partner their  then Liverpool striker Robbie Fowler, but sadly it did not work out for Liverpool., to have these two goal scoring machines , would have terrified any club.
But Gabriel Batistuta was a very loyal  player for his club, Fiorentina he even played for them when they were relegated once.
But sadly  the deal to buy him collapsed..
We must now know some rare facts of these two great strikers.
1) Gabriel Batistuta is the only footballer ever in world cup history, from 1930 , to score a hat trick in two different world cups.
 Robbie Fowler holds the record for the fastest hat trick in the E.P.L. Robbie Fowler scored that hat trick verses Arsenal in 4and a half minutes play.

LIONEL MESSI BREAKS DIEGO MARADONA RECOCORD.

They all say that Lionel Messi does not score enough goals for Argentina, he only scores sack full of goals for Barcelona.But the record book show a different story. Lionel Messi has now overtaken Diego Maradona goal total, Maradona has scored 34 goals while Lionel Messi has now scored 35 goals. But the top goal scorer for Argentina is Gabriel Batistuta with 56 goals. Hernen Crespo has also scored 35 goals for Argentina.