Lionel Messi has signed a contract extension that will keep him at Barcelona until the summer of 2021. Here, we look at the 30-year-old Barca and Argentina star's illustrious career in numbers.
523 -- Goals for Barcelona, in 602 games, including a record 361 in La Liga
91 -- Goals scored in 2012, breaking the calendar-year record set by German Gerd Muller in 1972
40 -- Career hat tricks; 36 for Barcelona, four for Argentina
0.87 -- Goals-per-game average for Barcelona
123 -- Caps for Argentina
61 -- Goals for Argentina, taking him past Gabriel Batistuta as his nation's all-time leading scorer. That tally includes his two in the 2008 Olympics
4 -- Goal tally in eight Argentina vs. Brazil matches in his career
8 -- La Liga titles with Barcelona
4 -- Champions League wins
5 -- Times he has won the Ballon d'Or, as the world's best player (in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2015)
2 -- Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are the only players to have won more than three Ballon d'Or awards
29 -- Trophies won with Barca
2008 -- Olympic gold in Beijing is Messi's only major honour with Argentina
47 -- Seconds into his Argentina debut before he was sent off, against Hungary in 2005, aged 18, after coming on as a substitute
67 -- Messi's height in inches (5-foot-7)
16 -- Age at which Messi made his Barcelona first-team debut
22 -- How old Messi was when he picked up his first Ballon d'Or award in 2009
10 -- Shirt number with which Messi has become synonymous for club and country