🚨🤯 HISTORIC: Katia Itzel García will become the first Mexican woman to referee a FIFA World Cup match! 🏆
She has been appointed to officiate the Tunisia vs. Netherlands game next Thursday. 🇹🇳🇳🇱
🚨🎙️🇫🇷 Didier Deschamps on Lionel Messi after equalling Miroslav Klose's World Cup goals record with a hat-trick against Algeria:
🗣️ “What Lionel Messi is doing now is no longer something you analyze like regular football... it's something you just watch and accept as greatness unfolding in real time.
As a coach, you spend days preparing structure, control and balance... then a player like him steps onto the pitch and bends all of that completely in ways you can't fully plan for.
To equal Miroslav Klose's World Cup tally with a hat-trick, at this stage of his career, is no longer just a performance — it's football history being rewritten before our eyes.
There are great players, there are legends... then there's Messi doing things that seem nearly impossible to replicate.”
🚨 Leo Messi: "Of course I am honored because of what it means to be alongside great players like Klose 🇩🇪 and also Ronaldo 🇧🇷 but I think it means nothing in the end.”
▪️“Mbappé scored two goals today as well, and in the end they remain just numbers and statistics.”
▪️“It's true that it is a source of pride to be able to compete with all of them, but it doesn't mean much to me."
🚨 Pep Guardiola on Lionel Messi’s Hat-Trick at the Worldcup.
I couldn’t miss the match because Messi was playing. I had to switch the channel from golf immediately to watch him.
I’m both confused and not surprised (laughs). Messi scoring a hat-trick? Yes, because he prefers to assist more than scoring himself. But I wasn’t surprised - especially because one of his goals was cancelled in the first minute. If not offside, it could easily have been four.
I do call him king Leo because he's the greatest player ever.
🚨🚨🎙️| “Are you joking with Messi about the records he is breaking?”
De Paul: “Yes, a little because he doesn't know most of them.”
“I swear to you that he isn't chasing individual records, but he ends up 𝐀𝐂𝐇𝐈𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐌 𝐀𝐋𝐋.” 🥶
🚨 Leo Messi: “Today is a special day, as it is the first time I've scored a hat-trick in the World Cup, so I am very happy.”
▪️“Batistuta was the only one who scored a hat-trick in the World Cup, and today I can be alongside him… and with all that Batistuta represents to us and to Argentina, I am happy to be close to him in this record.”
Leo Messi: "I can't ask for anything more, God gave me too much, now everything is just to enjoy.
"I'm just happy to being considered as one of the best in football history, I'm just grateful to be considered among many great players..."