🐐—Second-most goals in history (21)
🐐—Most wins in history (23)
🐐—Longest scoring streak (9)
🐐—Oldest hat trick scorer (38)
🐐—Joint-most tournament appearances (6)
🐐—Argentina’s top scorer at World Cup
🐐—Most goals from outside the area (7)
🐐—Most World Cup appearances (34)
🐐—Most appearances as captain (27)
🐐—Most assists in knockout phase (10)
🐐—Only man to score in group stage, Ro16, quarterfinals, semifinals and final (2022)
🐐—World Cup winner 🏆
Lionel Messi says farewell to the 2026 World Cup 🥺
Thank you for everything.
Dropping one of the best World Cup campaigns at the age of 39.
Greatest sportsman of all time.
Greatest player in history of the sport.
As a futbol purist, I must admit an Argentina win here would be very bad for the sport. Spain clearly the superior side.
As a Messi dickrider however, I hope some of the nastiest and filthiest corrpution + black magic occurs in the 2nd half to secure an Argentina dub
Trump on Harry Kane:
I played golf with Harry Kane, and he is a great guy.
I think perhaps they made a mistake when they made him a defensive player. They took their best player and put him in defense.
That was a bit unusual.
🚨🗣️ 𝗡𝗘𝗪: Jürgen Klopp on Tuchel's performance against Argentina:
"People always speak after the game like coaching is easy. Like you just choose attack or defend’and that’s it. It doesn’t work like this. Football is much more complex.
"I see the criticism of Tuchel for trying to defend the 1-0 against, but let me tell you something: if he didn’t do that, if he kept pushing forward and they conceded the same people would be saying, ‘Why didn’t he control the game? Why didn’t he defend the lead?’
"In knockout football, whatever decision you make, someone will criticise you. I’m not saying every decision is perfect, but you have to understand the logic behind it.
"Managing a game at that stage is never simple."
🚨 𝗖𝗥𝗔𝗭𝗬 𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗧: Leo Messi completed 9 dribbles in the World Cup semis vs. England...
That's MORE than Cristiano Ronaldo's completed dribbles (8) in the last 4 World Cups COMBINED.
— @SofascoreLA
9 & 2 - Lionel Messi completed nine dribbles and assisted two goals against England - the first player on record (from 1966) to do so in a single FIFA World Cup knockout game.
Catalyst.