Lionel Messi [ Images ] has sent a signed shirt to Gerd Mueller after the Argentina forward broke the former Germany [ Images ] striker's record for the number of goals scored in a calendar year in 2012.
"For Gerd Mueller, my respect and admiration, a hug," Messi wrote on the shirt, which had his name and number 10 on the back.
Messi finished last year with 91 goals for Barcelona [ Images ] and Argentina, six more than Mueller netted for Bayern Munich [ Images ] and Germany in 1972.
The 25-year-old Argentine, known as 'the flea' while Mueller's nickname was 'torpedo', collected an unprecedented fourth FIFA [ Images ] Ballon d'Or award on Monday.
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