Get free access to the most comprehensive World Cup coverage in The Athletic app.It’s May 1, 2005. It’s a week after the first video is uploaded to YouTube. It’s 18 days before Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith is released in cinemas. It’s the day Lionel Messi scores his first senior goal.Messi is 17 years old at this point. His strike — a soon-to-be-typical deft chip against Albacete — makes him, at the time, the youngest scorer in Barcelona’s history.Exactly 7,717 days (or 21 years, one month and 16 days if you prefer) later, he becomes the oldest player to score a World Cup hat-trick in Argentina’s 3-0 win against Algeria in Kansas City.Messi has been scoring goals for longer than the iPhone has existed, for longer than Breaking Bad has been around. He, more than any other soccer player, is the one who knocks.So much has been written about Messi’s goalscoring feats that it manages to feel familiar and yet still surprising.Heading into Argentina’s final World Cup group game this Saturday, Messi has 916 goals to his name. That’s… a lot of goals. Most players would be glad to end their careers with 500 appearances — to have almost 1,000 goals is freakish, outlandish, historic.Those 916 goals can, of course, be divided up in many different ways.There’s the simple carve, like who Messi has scored for…