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Radio 5 Live,2 mins
Vickery on young Messi: 'We were in the presence of something special'
5 Live In ShortAvailable for over a year
The Barcelona striker, Lionel Messi, has broken the goalscoring record in La Liga, Spain's top football league. The Argentine scored a hat-trick to bring his total to 253 goals, breaking a record set in 1955 by the Basque striker, Telmo Zarra. His talent was spotted as a teenager by 5 live's South American football correspondent, Tim Vickery.
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