{"id":77482,"date":"2018-03-05T07:09:22","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T07:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/superstar-messi-nets-his-600th-career-goal\/"},"modified":"2020-12-19T10:36:05","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T10:36:05","slug":"superstar-messi-nets-his-600th-career-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/superstar-messi-nets-his-600th-career-goal\/","title":{"rendered":"Superstar Messi nets his 600th career goal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2018\/3- Mar\/5\/messi.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KABUL (SW): FC Barcelona superstar Lionel Messi netted his 600th career goal in his team&rsquo;s 1-0 win over Atletico Madrid on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>The Argentine brought up the special milestone in the 26th minute, when he scored the only goal of the match with a stunning 25-yard free-kick. The strike was Messi&#39;s 373rd in LaLiga, and he has now gone on to find the back of the net 28 times in 35 games against the Rojiblancos, ESPN has reported.<\/p>\n<p>The five-time Ballon d&#39;Or winner has now scored a total of 539 goals for the Blaugrana and 61 at international level with Argentina.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old has made 41 appearances for the Spanish giants so far this season, scoring 32 goals and assisting a further 16 strikes.<\/p>\n<p>Messi&#39;s first-ever Barcelona goal arrived back in 2005 against Albacete and he became the club&#39;s all-time leading goalscorer in 2015 when he overtook Paulino Alcantara, who netted 369 goals for the Catalan side between 1912 and 1927.<\/p>\n<p>A teenage Messi opened his account for Argentina in 2006, scoring in a friendly win against Croatia and his 61 goals for his country have come in 123 games.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW): FC Barcelona superstar Lionel Messi netted his 600th career goal in his team\u2019s 1-0 win over Atletico Madrid on Sunday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-77482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}