In the 35th round of the 2024 MLS season, Inter Miami played away against the Columbus Crew. In just four minutes, Messi scored a solo goal and then scored a free-kick, the 66th free-kick of his career, thus surpassing David Beckham and tying Ronaldo, who is ranked third in the free-kick scoring list.
Inter Miami played very hard, and in the 24th minute of the game, Messi took a corner kick that led to an own goal, but the referee ruled that the goal was invalidated for offside.
In the 45th minute, after receiving a long pass, Messi forced a breakthrough under the attack of two defenders and stabbed the goal to break the deadlock for Inter Miami. Only 4 minutes later, Messi's left foot blasted out of the world wave with a free kick, and the goalkeeper could only look at the ball and sigh, and did not even make a save.
It was Messi's 66th career free-kick, tying Legrotarlie and Ronaldo, who are third in the all-time free-kick scoring charts, and only four goals less than Pele in second place, while Juninho tops the table with 77 goals.
In this ranking, Cristiano Ronaldo is ranked 7th with 64 goals, Maradona and Zico are 8th with 62 goals, and legendary defender Koeman is 10th with 60 goals.
At the same time, this is Messi's 30th goal for Inter Miami, and one more goal will become the team's all-time top scorer. It was also Messi's 843rd career goal and 1,218th goal involved.