As the great no.10 reached 30 years of age, we looked at 30 of the most impressive records he has set and broken during his prodigious career!
– All-time record for goals scored in a calendar year (91 goals in 2012 for Barça and Argentina)
-Most titles won with a Spanish club, all-time (30, tied with Andrés Iniesta)
-All-time assist leader in the Spanish First Division (137 assists)
-First player to ever score at least one goal against each team in the Spanish First Division in a single season (2012-13)
-All-time record for goals scored in a calendar year in the Spanish First Division (59 goals in 2012)
-Only player in history to have scored in six different competitions in the same year more than once (2011 and 2015)
-Most top-three finishes in the history of the Ballon d’Or award (10, from 2007 to 2016)
-Most goals scored in a single season in club football history (73 goals in 2011-12)
-Highest ever goal total for a Golden Shoe winner (50 goals in the 2011-12 season)
-Only player in Spanish football history to score 40 or more goals in eight consecutive seasons
-All-time leader in game-opening goals for a player’s own team in the history of the Spanish First Division (78 goals)
-Most titles won with FC Barcelona, all-time (30, tied with Andrés Iniesta)
-All-time leading scorer in the Spanish First Division (349 goals)
-All-time leading scorer in El Clásico history in games played at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium in Madrid (16 goals)
-Most trebles won, all-time (2, tied with Gerard Piqué, Andrés Iniesta, Xavi Hernández, Dani Alves, Sergio Busquets, Pedro Rodríguez. and Samuel Eto’o)
-Longest ever consecutive game goal streak in La Liga (34 goals scored over 21 straight games in the 2012-13 season)
-Most Champions League titles won, all-time (4, tied with Clarence Seedorf, Samuel Eto’o, Andrés Iniesta, Xavi Hernández, Cristiano Ronaldo, and Gerard Piqué)
-Only player in the history of the Spanish First Division to have scored in 13 consecutive games away from home in the same season (2012-13)
-Only player in the history of the Spanish First Division to have scored at least 20 goals in nine consecutive seasons (2008-2017)
-Youngest player in history to win three Ballon d’Or awards (24 years, six months, and 17 days old)
-Most two-goal games in the history of the Spanish First Division (101)
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