18 years have passed since Leo Messi's first goal as a professional; the rest is history [Video]

May 1 became a historic day for football since on that date, on a day like today, Leo Messi scored his first goal as a professional, wearing the shirt of his beloved club, FC Barcelona, ​​and in a match of LaLiga against Albacete.

On May 1, 2005, one of the greatest careers in the history of football began and the Camp Nou in Barcelona was the perfect setting for it. And it is that minute 87 was passing when Messi came on to replace Samuel Eto’o, and it only took him a minute to begin to shine and never go out again.

But it was not just any goal since the assist came from another world football genius, the Brazilian Ronaldinho Gaúcho, who sent a pass to the Argentine so that he could define with the genius that characterizes him and with a play that would later become his hallmark. goalscorer, a ‘Vaseline’ that left goalkeeper Raúl Valbuena without options.

That was the first of the 805 goals that ‘La Pulga’ has scored so far and the first of the 673 that he has scored in a Barcelona uniform. The others are divided as follows: 102 with the Argentine team and 31 with Paris Saint-Germain (PSG).

The image of that day, the celebration of said score and what came after, is something simply unique, and that is that after scoring that target, Messi ran directly to where his great friend Ronaldinho was, who immediately loaded him on his back like a sample of the support that has always given him.

In these 18 years, the captain of the Argentine team became the second top scorer in football history, only surpassed by the Portuguese star Cristiano Ronaldo. In addition, he won all possible titles, including the most elusive one and the one that ratified them for some as the best soccer player in history, the World Cup.

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