Barcelona forward Lionel Messi [Photo: Courtesy]

Barcelona’s talisman Lionel Messi is of course one of the greatest goal scorer in the history of football with an incredible 618 goals in 752 appearances for club and country.

Messi, just as his La Liga rival Cristiano Ronaldo, is known for breaking records in his football career, including Barcelona and La Liga’s all-time top scorer. Messi has scored a total of 40 free-kick goals [Photo: Courtesy]

However, there is one record that Messi has never broken and is unlikely to own. Becoming football’s all-time top goal scorer from free kicks.

The Argentine has been a master in this area over the past few seasons and has become dangerous with set-pieces outside the box.

He has scored a career total of 40 free-kicks, 34 for Barcelona and 6 for Argentina. He still needs 19 goals to break into the game’s top ten.

Juninho holds the record at 77 [Photo: Courtesy]

Former Brazil forward Juninho holds the record with 77. David Beckham (65), Ronaldinho (66) and Pelle (70) are among the names in the top ten.

This is the full list of football's top free-kick scorers as released by The Mirror.

77 goals: Juninho Pernambucano

70 goals: Pelé

66 goals: Víctor Legrotaglie

66 goals: Ronaldinho Gaúcho

65 goals: David Beckham

62 goals: Diego Armando Maradona

62 goals: Zico

60 goals: Ronald Koeman

59 goals: Rogério Ceni

59 goals: Marcelinho Carioca

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40 goals: Lionel Messi