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At 31 min of the 1st half – goal from inside the area by Lionel Messi for Argentina against Peru
Top scorers in the South American Qualifiers
Lionel Messi (Argentina) – 31 in 63 gamesLuis Suarez (Uruguay) – 29 goals in 62 Marcelo Moreno (Bolivia) – 22 in 62 (Chile) – 17 in 24Arturo Vidal (Chile) – 17 in 52Neymar (Brazil) – 16 in 28Joaquin Botero (Bolivia) – 16 in 31Agustin Delgado (Ecuador) – 16 in 32
At 41 min of the 1st half – goal from inside the area by Lionel Messi of Argentina against Peru
Until the beginning of the current edition, the greatest scorer in the history of the South American Qualifiers was Luis Suárez, a personal friend of Messi, now a Grêmio player, and who was not in any of Marcelo Bielsa’s Uruguay squad. He has 29 goals in 62 games for Celeste. The number 10 now has 31 goals scored in 63 matches for Argentina in this competition.
Watch Messi’s great goal against Ecuador, in the debut of the qualifiers
Despite being the top scorer in the South American qualifiers overall, Messi never finished as the top scorer in a single edition. His best performance was in the 2014 World Cup campaign, when he scored 10 goals. Suárez scored 11.
Messi’s performance in qualifiers
Edition Games Goals 2022 15 7 2018 10 7 2014 14 10 2010 18 4 2006 3 0
In the last edition of the Qualifiers, the Argentine star scored seven goals. The last player from his team to be the tournament’s top scorer was Hernán Crespo, in 2002, with 10 goals (and tied with Agustin Delgado, from Ecuador).
2023-10-18 02:58:31
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