The 13 records set by Lionel Messi that will never be broken

There aren’t enough superlatives in the galaxy to do Lionel Messi the justice he deserves for his unworldly footballing exploits.

And while his first season at Paris Saint-Germain has proven that he is in fact human, Messi is still more than capable of suspending your disbelief, despite his advancing age.

He might not be making our jaws drop week after week anymore, and that’s absolutely okay. But that’s not to say he isn’t still capable of making the magic happen when he’s feeling up for it. And with a first year in Paris that was always going to prove difficult now out of the way, you’d back the Argentine to bounce back and kick on to superhuman levels again next season.

Having said that, Messi could hang up the boots tomorrow and his status as a footballing freak of nature would forever be etched into the game, with such a tremendous legacy left behind and living on through the records he has set throughout the years.

Those records are absolutely astonishing. Most of them being set while dazzling spectators for Barcelona from 2004 to 2021, some were also set while doing the very same thing for the Argentina national team.

There is never a wrong time to gawk over Messi’s accolades, thus we at GIVEMESPORT have deemed it as good a time as ever to look back at 11 of the records currently set by him that are so good, they are unlikely to ever be broken again.

Admittedly this is one of very few records that feel slightly beatable, Messi currently has the most Champions League hat-tricks, but is closely followed by Cristiano Ronaldo’s seven.

However, with Ronaldo looking set to not play Champions League football by sticking with Manchester United, there is a genuine possibility he might not get another chance to take that