On the morning of October 3, Lionel Messi scored 2 goals in Inter Miami's 3-2 victory over Columbus Crew in the 2024 Major League Soccer (MLS). With 3 more points, Inter Miami officially won the MLS Supporters Shield.
This is Messi's second trophy with Inter Miami and with the MLS playoffs and a place in the FIFA Club World Cup in the summer of 2025, he could be in contention to add to his career tally.
Up to this point, after 20 years of professional competition, Messi has a total of 46 championships - the most in the world, with an average of 2.3 titles per year.
With most of his career spent at Barcelona, it's no surprise that Messi has won the most trophies at the Catalan club.
Accordingly, he has won the Champions League 4 times, La Liga 10 times, won 3 FIFA Club World Cups, 3 European Super Cups, 8 Spanish Super Cups and 7 Spanish King's Cups.
After many years of association with Barcelona, the Argentine superstar moved to Paris St Germain as a free agent. Although life in Paris was not very comfortable, in 2 seasons at PSG, Messi added 3 more titles, with 2 Ligue 1 and 1 French Super Cup.
It is quite unfortunate for Messi that despite coming to France to play alongside Neymar and Kylian Mbappe, he could not conquer the Champions League. And so, the victory with Barca in 2015 was also the last time M10 won the top European club tournament.
In the summer of 2023, Messi crossed the ocean to the US, joined Inter Miami and soon won the next title at the Leagues Cup. The latest is the MLS Supporters Shield as mentioned above.
Messi made his debut for the Argentina national team in 2005, but unlike at club level, titles eluded him for many years. There was a period when it seemed that disappointment would lead Messi to decide to retire, but he continued and success began to come to him from 2021.
Messi and Argentina won Copa America 2021, 2024, won Finalissima Cup 2022 and especially the world championship in 2022.
Messi's other two titles were in 2005, when he won the U20 World Cup, and in 2008, when he won the Beijing Olympic gold medal with the U23 team.
