It’s shots like this that really make you appreciate exactly how skilful elite athletes are. Whilst away from the pressure of competition the ability to so effortlessly manipulate the ball with the club in a way which so blatantly defies the laws of physics is still awe inspiring.
No mere mortal can stop Messi, football’s greatest-of-all-time candidate who’s had the ballon d'or so many times his successor will surely want to handle it with rubber gloves.
WARNING: this is NOT for the faint-hearted. We look at the most brutal breaks and sickening scrapes ever to leave mouths agape in our 10 to ONE Gruesome Sporting Injuries.