Lionel Messi, the best soccer player in the history of feet, scored his 75th and 76th goals of 2012 yesterday vs. Mallorca in La Liga play. In doing so, he broke a record held by Pele, an old coot who has a difficult time admitting that Messi is the best there ever was.
“Leo is constantly breaking records and his goal-scoring statistics are spectacular,” Barca coach Tito Vilanova, who has known Messi since he was a teenager in the club’s youth academy, said after the Mallorca match. There are great players who need seven or eight seasons to score the number of goals he scores in one campaign. You also have to remember that some of them are genuine stunners.”
In the video, you can see the goals at 2:33 (a cheapie) and 4:33 (a nice strike).