Top 5 Champions League goal-scorers among active players

#2 Lionel Messi (2nd all-time)

One of seven players with 130 appearances in the Champions League, Lionel Messi has scored 112 goals in the competition.

Messi is one of only two players to tally 100 goals in the Champions League, and has the highest single-club goal tally in the competition.

One of four players to have scored in 14 consecutive seasons in the Champions League, the diminutive Argentinian has netted against a record-equaling 32 different clubs. He also has a record-equaling eight hat-tricks in the competition.

Messi's tally of 66 goals in the group stage is the highest in the competition's history.

Messi is the only player in the history of the competition to score four or more goals in a game on four occasions, and is one of 20 players to have won the Champions League four times (all for Barcelona).

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Bhargav supports Italy at national level, a team steeped in tradition and history according to him. He still harbors the heartbreak from the Azzurri’s 1994 FIFA World Cup final defeat against Brazil, and protagonist-turned-antagonist from the game, ‘Divine Ponytail’ Roberto Baggio is his all-time favorite player. His favorite manager is Marcelo Lippi, who ended Italy’s 24-year wait for the World Cup trophy, winning it in 2006.

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