🚨 Messi becomes the sole top scorer in Club World Cup history 🐐 | OneFootball

🚨 Messi becomes the sole top scorer in Club World Cup history 🐐 | OneFootball

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·22 June 2026

🚨 Messi becomes the sole top scorer in Club World Cup history 🐐

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He did it!

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That’s it, Lionel Messi now stands alone in World Cup history. On Monday evening, with a brace against Austria, the Argentine legend scored his 17th and 18th goals at a World Cup.


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He therefore surpasses Germany’s Miroslav Klose (16 goals) and is now the sole top scorer in World Cup history!

Now 38 years old, La Pulga continues to rattle the net on the biggest stage football has to offer.

With four goals in two matches, will Messi continue to widen the gap, while his main rival, Kylian Mbappé, plays tonight at 11 p.m.?

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇫🇷 here.


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