La Semana

Messi establishe­d himself as the most winning Argentine and stalks Dani Alves in the historical table of titles

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Lionel Messi made history again. After breaking the curse with the Argentine team with the conquest of the Copa América in Brazil in July of last year, The flea he added a championsh­ip with PSG, the first with a team other than Barcelona. The Rosario star returned just to play the Consecrati­on match for Ligue 1 against Lens at home, after recovering from “inflammati­on of the left Achilles tendon”, and celebrated the 38th title of his career.

In this way, Messi not only establishe­d himself as the most winning Argentine soccer player in history, followed by his teammate Ángel Di María, who overtook Carlos Tevez in second place, but instead stalks Dani Alves, who with 42 trophies is the most successful footballer of all time.

This coronation in France allowed Messi to reach the 38th title of his career and detach himself from the Spanish Andrés Iniesta and the Brazilian Maxwellwho complete the podium with 37. Of course, the Argentine approached the most winner, his former partner Daniel Alveswho leads the ranking with 42.

Behind those mentioned above are Ryan Giggs (36), Kenny Dalglish and Gerard Piqué (35), Vítor Baía (34), Xavi Hernández (33) and Cristiano Ronaldo (33).

What are the 38 titles that Messi won? Lionel’s record It consists of 10 Spanish Leagues, seven Spanish Super Cups, seven King’s Cups, four Champions Leagues, three European Super Cups and three Club World Cups. All those conquests, a total of 3. 4, have been reached with the Barcelona shirt from 2005 until he said goodbye in mid-2021. To these you have to add the recent Ligue 1 reached with PSG.

TABLE OF PLAYERS WITH THE MOST TITLES IN HISTORY:

Dani Alves (Brazil) 42 Lionel Messi (Argentina) 38 Andres Iniesta (Spain) 37 Maxwell (Brazil) 37

Ryan Giggs (Wales) 36 Kenny Dalglish (Scotland) 35 Gerard Pique (Spain) 35 Vitor Baia (Portugal) 34 Xavi (Spain) 34 Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal) 33

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