Messi free-kick against Liverpool from all angles

May 1, 2005, Barcelona vs Albacete at Camp Nou: Rijkaard changed Eto'o at minute 88 with a young Argentine from the 'cantera', who two minutes later exploited Ronaldinho's sublime pass fixing the score at 2-0 with a lob on the outgoing goalkeeper.

On May 1, 14 years later, at the Camp Nou there's the first UCL's semi-final between the Catalans and Liverpool: that boy now is grown (not in stature) and is the Barça captain, he's become the most successful player in blaugrana history and chases the goal number 600, which will punctually arrive in the second half thanks to a brace useful to fix the final score on 3-0. Perhaps the best way to celebrate this achievement.

In addition to his favorite foot, the left one, Messi in his career has scored amazing goals in other ways too: using the right foot, for example, as when he overtook Casillas after the incredible slalom lead in the 2011 Champions League semi-final, at Bernabeu; or even the header, as happened in the 2009 Rome final to beat Manchester United. Lately Leo has specialized in free-kicks from distance, and this season he already managed to scored 8 times. Alaves, three times against Espanyol, PSV, Betis, Villarreal: no one else on this planet has scored as much as he.

If there is something that Leo Messi taught us in these 15 seasons with Barcelona is that it really does not make sense to be amazed in front of his stunning goals, the performances of his infinite talent, his soccer lessons, his perfect free kicks: the one scored against Liverpool by 30 meters (!!!), the 600th career goal (in 683 appearances), is of a blinding beauty, of those goals that we would watch again and again without ever getting tired. And so we decided to propose it from every possible angle, to admire it even better:

From below

From tv

From the stands (version 1)

From the stands (version 2)

Rallenty

Bonus: Rio Ferdinand and Gary Lineker reaction