The Zambian Football Association are set to challenge Lionel Messi's record for the most goals scored in a calendar year, claiming Godfrey Chitalu is the true holder of that title.
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Barcelona superstar Messi scored twice against Real Betis last Sunday to take his tally for 2012 to 86 goals, breaking Gerd Muller's officially recognised previous record of 85, which had stood for 40 years.
However, the ZFA are busy gathering information on Kabwe Warriors striker Chitalu, who the organisation claim scored 107 goals in 1972.
"We have this record, which has been recorded in Zambian football, but unfortunately it has not been recorded in world football," a Zambia FA spokesperson told Soccer Laduma.
"Even as the world has been looking at Lionel Messi's record, breaking Gerd Muller's, the debate and discussion back here has been why Godfrey's goals are not being recognised.
"What we are doing is, we have commissioned an independent team locally to go back into the archives and record minute-by-minute each of those goals. The team that we have put together is going to calculate all of those goals, recording whichever game or tournament they were scored in.
"We will then send that to CAF [Confederation of African Football] and FIFA so that we can show that, while Messi's record is there, while Muller's record is there, the actual record holder in terms of goals per calendar year is actually an African. It's actually Godfrey Chitalu."
Chitalu, a former Copper Bullet, tragically passed away in 1993 when a plane carrying the national team crashed near Gabon.
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