Against Curaçao, Messi reached another major milestone in his career, scoring his 100th goal for his national team, becoming the third player in history to reach this milestone, and the first among South American players.
National team 100-goal milestone
For Messi, March was a milestone month, with his 700th goal of his club, 1,000 goals of his career and 800th goal of his career.
Against Panama, Messi scored from a free-kick after 14 shots to seal the win for Argentina while scoring his 800th career goal. It was also the 99th goal of his national team career.
Afterwards, Messi participated in a series of tribute ceremonies, the Argentine Football Federation named the building under construction "Messi Building", and the South American Football Federation also made a statue of Messi holding the Hercules Cup, and presented him with a scepter symbolizing the leader of world players.
In the match against Curaçao, Messi continued to start and scored again to score the 100th goal of his national team career, becoming the first Argentine player and South American player in history to score 100 goals for the national team.
6236 days to compose myths
On 1 March 2006 , Messi started against Croatia and scored his first goal for the national team. 6,236 days later, Messi scored the 100th goal of his national team career, continuing to set a new record for goals scored by Argentina and South American players.
Before Messi, only Ronaldo and Ali Dai had scored 100 goals for the national team. Currently, Cristiano Ronaldo, who has made 198 appearances, has scored 122 goals, while Ali Dey has scored 109 goals in 149 games.
Since the World Cup match against Australia, Messi has scored in the last six appearances for the national team. In his last 13 appearances, Messi has only failed to score against Poland, scoring a total of 19 goals in 13 games.
Scaloni is a great contribution
Of the 100 goals Messi has scored for the national team, 35 were scored during Scaloni's time in charge and in just 43 games, averaging 0.81 goals per game. Secondly, when Sabella was in charge, Messi scored 25 goals in 32 games, averaging 0.78 goals per game.
Under Maradona, Messi scored three goals in 16 games, averaging only 0.18 goals per game, setting the lowest goal rate, followed by Messi scoring two goals in 10 games under Pekelman.
Gift to win the championship for 100 days
On 18 December, Messi led the Blue and White to victory over France and won the World Wave. The match against Curaçao took place exactly 100 days after the World Cup victory.
In such a match, scoring the 100th goal of his national team career, Messi gave a generous gift for the 100th anniversary of the World Cup!