Zambia Football Association are planning  an official challenge to Lionel Messi’s record for the most goals scored in a calendar year in the hope of getting  recognition for striker Godfrey Chitalu's feat of scoring 107 goals in 1972.  This is coming just after Messi’s record breaking goals which took him past German Muller’s officially recognized 40-yeear-old record of 85 goals.

Speaking to bbcsports, Football Asssociation of Zambia’s spokesman Eric Mwanza said they would present evidence to FIFA to show that the former Kabwe Warriors striker Godfrey Chitalu, who won Zambia's player of the year award five times, scored 107 goals in 1972.

"We want to make it very clear that it is not a question of authenticating, or trying to verify or see if he actually scored the goals - that is not in question," he insisted.

"What is in question now is why has he not been recognised, and that is what we are looking at now.

"We are sending communication to the Secretary General of Fifa, Mr Jerome Valcke, to look again into the matter of Godfrey Chitalu."

Chitalu, who scored the goals in at least four domestic competitions and also played for Zambia's national team, went on to become national coach. He died in 1993 when a plane carrying the team crashed near Gabon.