Marcelo Sets World Record! Marcelo Challenges Messi: Score A Goal Too!

Messi has scored 38 goals for Argentina but none in the World Cup, one thing that deludes him

Every year of the World Cup, something spectacular happens. In the case of the 2014 FIFA World Cup, the tournament opener did make tremendous records.

Since the history of the World Cup, Brazil has never scored an own goal in much more from a player like Marcelo; well, they say for anything bad, there is a good side in reverse.

Marcelo may not have scored to the credit of his team, but he has scored to the credit of FIFA's record. It is good to know that his name now is in the list of World Cup goal scorers.

The defender is considered as the most Athletic player in the Selecaos squad and true he stayed to this suggestion pacing up and about the pitch all through the 90 minutes the game progressed.

Marcelo is likened to Brazil legend Roberto Carlos who himself has admitted that “Marcelo possesses a better technical ability than me.” 

Born on May 12, 1988, Marcelo Vieira is hailed for both his defensive and offensive abilities, having proven himself as both a top-grade left wing and left back.

The defender is known to be a good goal scorer with a powerful left, he has 15 goals in record for Spanish club Real Madrid and 4 for the Selecaos; could have been five if yesterday's counted for him.

Marcelo’s own goal isn't as bad, though it is still a shocking record in Brazillian soccer, it is however, a feat some expected goal scorers have not achieved.

Four time FIFA Player of the year, Barcelona and Argentina's golden boy, Lionel Messi, is yet to smell the line in three appearances at the FIFA World Cup; he may have scored 38 goals for the Albercelestes in 86 appearances but none of those goals have passed the line in Germany or South Africa, but it will finally cross the line in Brazil; who knows?

The two players cannot be compared as they operate from different sections of the field but one thing is synonymous to their profession, they kick balls.

Marcelo defends and attack, Messi attacks but 26 year-old Marcelo has made the record as the first among the two to put the ball behind the line. 

Messi may finally find luck with the Brazuca this year in neighbouring Brazil, it might be against Bosnia, Iran or Nigeria and it just may not happen afterall.

We all want to see 27 year-old Lionel Messi score a goal, even an own goal would do.

Own goals are goals too, perhaps unfairly, it cannot be worse like the case of the Colombian defender, Andrés Escobar Saldarriaga who was shot twelve times to death in his birth place of Medellin, Colombia after he scored an own goal in USA 1994.