Messi record not official: FIFA

Messi ... isn't fussed about the goal-scoring record. Source: Angel Fernandez / AP

Football's governing body FIFA says they will not get involved in a controversy that has erupted around Lionel Messi's goal-scoring record.

• Birthdate
  June 24, 1987
  Rosario, Argentina
   
• Height
  1.69m (5ft 7in)
   
• Club
  Barcelona (ESP) since 2004
   
• Major club honours
  Three Champions Leagues, five league titles in Spain, two Spanish Cups, two Super Cups, two Club World Cups
   
• International caps
  76 (31 goals)
   
• International honours
  Olympic gold medal (2008)
   
• Individual honours
  Three Ballon d'Or titles (2009, 2010, 2011)

The Barcelona striker scored his 85th and 86th goal of the year in his club's 2-1 win at Real Betis, breaking the record of 85 goals held previously by Germany's Gerd Mueller.

The Zambian football federation however, said that Godfrey Chitalu scored 107 goals in 1972.

FIFA spokesman Alex Stone told the BBC that as they did not keep domestic records, it was not an official FIFA record.

"We don't have a database which details every football game played in every country from around the world since day one of their formation," Stone said.

He said that the organisation did not recognise Messi - or anybody else for that matter - as holding the record.

"It's a record where someone in the media obviously collected statistics from somewhere and noticed Messi was about to pass that record."

-DPA

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