Lionel Messi put his PSG woes aside to become the first male South American player ever to score 80 international goals

Lionel Messi turned into the main South American player to score 80 worldwide objectives in the wake of mesh in Argentina's 3-0 success against Uruguay on Sunday.

The 34-year-old opened the scoring on the night with a glided cross that crawled into the furthest corner of the net.

Last month, Messi had outperformed Brazilian legend Pele as South America's record global male objective scorer when he hit a full go-around in a 3-0 success over Bolivia. He actually trails ladies' soccer legend Marta by 32 objectives, with the Brazilian scoring 112 so far in her vocation.

After his objective against Uruguay, the PSG star was given a CONMEBOL grant by the leader of the Argentine Football Association (AFA), Claudio Tapia.

The honor highlighted a photograph of Messi lifting the Copa America title, which he helped his nation win in July.

"We played an incredible game. Everything worked out flawlessly," said Messi after Argentina's triumph, which was fixed by objectives from Rodrigo de Paul and Lautaro Martinez.

While Messi is as yet doing the business for his country, he has hitherto battled to make a big deal about an effect for his new club side, Paris Saint Germain.

Since passing on Barcelona to join the Ligue 1 monster this mid year, Messi has scored recently once in five matches, while he has likewise neglected to enroll a solitary help.

His main objective for his new club came against Manchester City in the Champions League, after which he said: "I was getting frantic to score my first objective."

He added: "I am settling into the team little by little."