MADRID (Reuters) - If anyone had said when a callow teenager called Lionel Messi netted his debut La Liga goal in May 2005 he would break Telmo Zarra's top-flight scoring record within a decade they would have been dismissed as a lunatic.
Yet that is what the pint-sized 27-year-old Argentine achieved when he scored a hat-trick in Saturday's 5-1 win for Barcelona over Sevilla at the Nou Camp, moving to 253 goals and surpassing Zarra's haul of 251 over 15 seasons for Athletic Bilbao in the 1940s and 50s.
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