The Brazilian club have claimed that their player Zico scored a mammoth 89 goals in 1979 and the record of the Argentinean actually belongs to him.
A lot of news has surrounded the event of http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Lionel-Messi-c22296 breaking another long held record in the history of the game.
Messi had long been chasing the prestigious record set by Bayern Munich legend Gerd Muller and finally broke it with a beautiful brace against Real Betis.
Year 1972 saw Gerd Muller score an incredible 85 goals in a single calendar year, playing for both the Bavarian giants and http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Germany-c2904.
Messi’s 2012 has even bettered the great German’s feat and the Argentine forward has gone on to score 88 goals in this calendar year.
Since the breaking of the hallowed record, a lot of claims have surfaced.
Yesterday the Zambian FA had claimed that Godfrey Chitalu held the record for most goals in a year when he netted for a massive 107 times.
Following the Zambian FA’s complaint to FIFA, Brazilian side of http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Barcelona-c38604 forward in a single calendar year.
The figure associated with Zico is 89 goals and the year that the feat was achieved was told to be 1979.
The club told,
"Messi has not bettered the record," said http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Bruno-c8098 Lucena, a club historian.
It was also recorded that the Brazilian had suffered an injury in the season which forced him to sit out for some time during the season.
The historian’s claimed that had Zico not been injured, he would have gone on to score even more than a century of goals for both club and country.
"If he had played the whole year, Zico would have without doubt scored more than 100 goals," he said in reference to the fact that Zico missed a couple of months of the 1979 season through injury.”
The record being talked about has not been recorded by FIFA and if the club decides to lodge a complaint with the governing body, FIFA will have to go into investigations on all the matters.
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