Chapter 99: Barcelona's all-time goalscorer king!
On March 17, 2014, in the game against Osasuna, Messi scored a hat-trick to help the team win 7-0, he scored the second goal in the 18th minute of the second half of the game, received a pass from Iniesta and scored low, breaking the 80-year record in team history, surpassing the record of 369 goals, and officially becoming the all-time top scorer of Barcelona's main match and friendlies.
And the man Messi surpassed was named Paulino Alcantara.
In Barcelona's 100-year history, there has never been a shortage of superstars, Ronaldo, Maradona, Cruyff, Kubara (the Camp Nou was built in the fifties to welcome the Hungarian superstar...... All kinds of football bigwigs who have made great statements, no one has been able to break this ancient record -
Although some people leave after a short period of service, they may have been playing for a big club steadily, isn't it a great achievement?
The ancient star Alcantara played for Barcelona between 1912 and 1927, missing just two seasons, and when he made his first appearance for Barcelona in my year, he scored a hat-trick and helped them to an 8-2 victory. In 357 official and friendly appearances, he scored 142 official match goals and 227 friendly goals, for a total of 369 goals, and won 5 Spanish championship trophies and 10 Catalan championship trophies.
This is a pretty good result, if you have to take the friendly match and the ancient era of goals to say, then there is no way, after all, the official games at that time were far from as many as today, even the ball king Pele, the lone wolf Romario is also said to have brushed a thousand goals in the friendly game.
Alcantara was born in the Philippines in 1896. With dual nationality of the Philippines and Spain, he plays as a center forward, but he is thin and small, and his confrontation ability is insufficient. But his agility and goalmouth feel were enough to help him capture scoring opportunities on the pitch. That's why it can leave a series of records that are difficult for Barcelona latecomers to achieve, until the briquette king. After all, Messi is the biggest bug.
However, at this time, Alcantara was not yet an "ancient player", and for the current Barcelona fans, this guy had been retired for less than ten years - on July 5, 1927, when Alcantara was only 31 years old, he thought it was the age when he had ended his career as a footballer and concentrated on becoming a doctor. Both Spain and Barcelona bid him farewell and then stayed in Spain as well, briefly serving as head coach of the Spanish national team in the 50s.
On the one hand, the team won the Catalan championship, but on the other hand, in the cup final, because of the opponent's goalkeeper, they lost to their rival Real Madrid by one goal, and unfortunately became the runner-up.
It is worth mentioning that at this time, Real Madrid's goalkeeper was called "Salamo", the guy who was later named the best goalkeeper award in La Liga.
The civil war, Franco, the local situation in Catalan, are all affecting this club that is "not just a club". It is unclear whether they will be able to achieve better results next season, or whether they will be able to maintain the current position of the team in the face of more support from the government.
In the offseason, most of the main players began to take vacations, and most of the people who are still in the team are the youth army and some ticket holders.
Well, early fans can play on their own. Even the chairman himself went up and kicked it. (Now there's Chairman Pi too.) )
Today's surprise is that the team's legendary Mr. Alcantara came to the team's training ground with an unfamiliar Asian face.
Could it be that this guy is a Filipino native of Alcantara?
The Barcelona players speculated.
Soon, under the explanation of the assistant coach, everyone understood that in view of the current situation of the team, Mr. Alcantara was going to recommend his fellow countryman to join the team.
"This young man is outstanding!" The players only heard Alcantara as if he was discussing something with the assistant coach.
It wasn't long before the young man with an Asian face joined the players' training camp. He doesn't speak much and doesn't seem to speak Catalan, but he can understand Spanish.
The basic training can't tell the level of the other party, but you can see that this guy is in good shape and seems to be very powerful.
The team then enters an 8v8 drill, with the defending side wearing orange vests.
But this new little guy, who has just arrived, does not start from defense, and the assistant coach even directly asks everyone to pass more balls to him who is assigned to the offensive side.
What is he capable of?
All the players thought in their hearts.
But everyone is still interested in seeing what tricks can be played when the ball is handed to the feet of this little guy.
The Asian guy attacked in the middle. After winning the ball in the center of the penalty area, facing the defending defenders, dribble to the left front after smashing the ball left and right continuously!
As soon as he kicked out, the Barcelona defense was taken aback!
This proficient technique seems to be a practitioner!
Two people in the same central defender position came from two places to help defend, but the Asian guy just stepped out of the encirclement of three people, and then fired a low shot into the far corner!
Score straight away!
The players on the defensive side were stunned!
This guy is so strong!
Then the Asian guy almost copied the same routine, facing the defense of the two defenders, chose the same route, after a series of smashes and feints, a burst of shots into the far corner, but this time, the ball smashed into the leg of the defender who wanted to stretch his leg to block and bounced into the net.
The third "suffer" became a main player, he seemed to want to learn from the experience of the first two ball defenders, the Asian guy just took the ball and stepped forward to scramble, but the young man protected the ball, stuck him on the outside, and then left his left foot horizontally shook the space, and scored again with an easy push! In Barcelona's 100-year history, there has never been a shortage of superstars, Ronaldo, Maradona, Cruyff, Kubara (the Camp Nou was built in the fifties to welcome the Hungarian superstar...... All kinds of football bigwigs who have made great statements, no one has been able to break this ancient record -
Although some people leave after a short period of service, they may have been playing for a big club steadily, isn't it a great achievement?
The ancient star Alcantara played for Barcelona between 1912 and 1927, missing just two seasons, and when he made his first appearance for Barcelona in my year, he scored a hat-trick and helped them to an 8-2 victory. In 357 official and friendly appearances, he scored 142 official match goals and 227 friendly goals, for a total of 369 goals, and won 5 Spanish championship trophies and 10 Catalan championship trophies.