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What are Lionel Messiā€™s achievements?

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Lionel Messi scored 73 goals during the 2011ā€“12 season while playing for FC Barcelona, breaking a 39-year-old record for single-season goals in a major European football league. In 2014 Messi led Argentina to the World Cup final, which Argentina lost, but Messi won the Golden Ball award as the tournamentā€™s best player. During the 2016 Copa AmĆ©rica Centenario tournament, he netted his 55th international goal to break Gabriel Batistutaā€™s Argentine scoring record. He led Argentinaā€™s national team to win the 2021 and 2024 Copa AmĆ©rica and the 2022 FIFA World Cup, when he again won the Golden Ball award. He is the second all-time top scorer in the history of the World Cup with a total of 21 goals.