[OC] Lionel Messi's shots and goals with Barcelona during his record-breaking 2011/2012 season, compared to his attempts in the 2014 and 2018 World Cups with Argentina

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Messi has routinely been one of the best performers in European soccer, including his record-breaking 2011-2012 season in the Spanish league (“La Liga”) with Barcelona, where he set the record for most goals in a season. Unfortunately, success with the Argentina national team has frequently eluded him, finishing as a “runner-up” in the World Cup once and in the Copa America 3 times, before finally winning the Copa America in 2021. Critics often point to his difficulties with his national team as a fatal flaw. I was interested in how his scoring opportunities during arguably his best performance at Barcelona compared to his chances made with Argentina. The data suggests that he is regularly shooting from further away from goal when playing with Argentina when compared to his best performance with Barcelona, which could be a result of a number of factors (different team tactics, difficulty getting up the field, increasing age, less familiarity with teammates, etc.). Data: 2011/2012 La Liga season and World Cup 2018 data were collected from the very nice, public datasets provided by StatsBomb at https://github.com/statsbomb/open-data. The World Cup 2014 data was a bit more difficult to find, but was scraped from the Huffington Post . The StatsBomb data has a ton of great stats to dig into, but because the Huffington Post data had less detail, I wasn't able to go into all of it with just this plot.

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I was pointed to the Huffington Post data by this great repo: https://github.com/rjtavares/football-crunching (which, coincidentally, I found because of this Reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/datascience/comments/rh22z9/ive_made_a_search_engine_with_5000_quality_data/ by u/khanarree

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