(Reuters) – The following is a look at Argentina captain Lionel Messi’s career by 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 last World Cup goals
13: World Cup goals (Argentine record)
11: 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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