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Lionel Messi's career by the numbers

The following is a look at Argentina captain Lionel Messi's career by the numbers:

499 million

Global followers on social media platforms Facebook and Instagram (over 10 times the population of Argentina)


$120 million

Messi's estimated earnings for the 2022-23 season before taxes and agents' fees, according to Forbes.


$26.60 million

Messi's estimated transfer value, according to Swiss research group CIES Football Observatory.


2,315

Minutes played in the World Cup. No one has played more.


853

Club matches for Barcelona B, Barcelona, and Paris St Germain


701

Club goals for Barcelona B, Barcelona, and Paris St Germain


172

International caps


98

International goals


37

Club trophies won


35

Age


26

Matches played at the World Cup (Overall record)


19

Appearances as captain in the World Cup -- a record


16

World Cup match victories (Germany's Miroslav Klose has 17). Does not include penalty shootout wins.


16 years

The gap between his first and latest World Cup goals


13

World Cup goals (Argentine record)


11

World Cup player of the match awards (first given in 2002)


7

Ballons d'Or


6

Men to have played in five World Cups - Messi, Lothar Matthaeus, Antonio Carbajal, Rafa Marquez, Andres Guardado and Cristiano Ronaldo


6

Assists in the knockout phase of World Cups


5

World Cups played in and assisted in


2

World Cup finals


1

Copa America trophy


1

World Cup winners' medals


(Compiled by Aadi Nair and Shrivathsa Sridhar in Bengaluru, Tommy Lund in Gdansk, Editing by Toby Davis and Ed Osmond)

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