MADRID (Reuters) - Lionel Messi gave a new meaning to the phrase 'Hand of God' when he netted a Champions League record five goals in Barcelona's 7-1 demolition of Bayer Leverkusen on Wednesday.

A young Bangladeshi architect has earned fame after his digital drawing of soccer player Lionel Messi was matched in real life six years later. Suhas Nahian's 2013 artwork shows Messi dribbling ...

For Lionel Messi, stepping up to the precedent set ... They call his first goal during that famed match "the hand of god." Controversial to some, Maradona was able to score for Argentina by ...

Soccer superstar Lionel Messi is no stranger to breaking records ... memorabilia is held by legend Diego Maradona and his “Hand of God” shirt that Sotheby’s sold for $9.3 million last ...

How much do you know about Messi – both on and off the pitch?Facts about Lionel Messi don’t stay hidden for long given that he is one of the best players to have ever graced the game.

And if Lionel Messi did it with another ‘Hand of God’, it would be even celebrated, without a doubt. Of course, with Var, that trick would be impossible, but it would be celebrated.

What Hodge did on that day in 1986, and beyond, has led us to now, with Messi's shirt collection ... he sold Diego Maradona's 'Hand of God' jersey from the 1986 World Cup quarter-final.

The record for a game-worn football shirt is Diego Maradona's 'Hand of God' jersey, which sold for £7.1m in 2022. Messi, an eight-time Ballon d'Or winner, became the first player in World Cup ...

The record for a game-worn football shirt is Diego Maradona's 'Hand of God' jersey, which sold for £7.1m in 2022. Brahm Wachter, Sotheby's head of modern collectibles, said the sale of Messi's ...