Messi looks to Pursue Goal-300 & 14th

At the age of 24 years of Lionel Messi has appeared in 299 games with Barcelona. Then the party's first leg Copa del Rey cons Real Madrid at the Santiago Bernabeu could be a fight to-300 to the packer 13 goals in the El Clasico.

At the beginning of the 2004/05 season, Frank Rijkaard who handle Barca at that time had to face a number of injured players to face Espanyol counter Catalan derby.

It was forced to call a number of Barca players B, one of which is the young man named Lionel Messi. At the age of 17 years and 114 days of the Argentine players played as a substitute against Espanyol on 16 October 2004.

In his debut in the league, Messi's performance already looks very promising. At the age of 17 years, 10 months, and 7 days, Messi also found the net Albacete Balompie on May 1, 2005, making it the youngest player to make a goal Barca in the league.

Name Messi then increasingly looming as Pep Guardiola came handle Los Cules. Messi made ​​the center of the team, makes it more freedom to be creative and act in the field.

Appearance after appearance, then he please register, making the number now has reached 299. This means that the party quarterfinal first leg Copa del Rey in Madrid headquarters, Thursday (01/19/2012) pm dawn, could be the appearance to-300 Messi for Barca.