Lionel Messi claims four new World Cup records 🤯🇦🇷 | OneFootball

The man of this sport.

Lionel Messi and Argentina are facing Algeria this Wednesday, June 17. Both teams are making their debut in the 2026 World Cup.

After just over 30 minutes of play, it’s fair to say that the football legend has entered his tournament perfectly.

His offside goal in the 5th minute helped him get into rhythm. Barely ten minutes later, the forward found the back of the net again. This time for real.

Thanks to that goal, Lionel Messi moved into a category no one had ever reached before.

In his sixth World Cup, Lionel Messi scored his 14th, 15th and 16th goals. He has quite simply become the joint top scorer in World Cup history, level with Miroslav Klose.

The hat-trick also allows him to surpass Cristiano Ronaldo as the oldest player in World Cup history to score three goals in a single match.

He becomes the first player to reach the mark of 24 goal contributions: 16 goals, 8 key passes. No other player has been so decisive on the international stage.

This long-range strike, which opened the scoring, was his fifth goal from outside the box in this competition. Since 1966, no player had scored that many.

Finally, Lionel Messi joins Cristiano Ronaldo and becomes the second player to score in five different World Cups (2006, 2014, 2018, 2022, 2026).

Before we see another player like that...

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