These are some of the additional achievements that make Lio “GOAT” after winning the world championship with Argentina:
Messi is the player with the most matches played in the history of the World Cup, totaling 26. The Argentine soccer player in his game on Sunday the 18th against France and kept the record alone, beating the German Lothar Matthäus.
Lio accumulated 2,314 minutes in World Cups, with this he surpassed the Italian Paolo Maldini, who reached 2,217.
“La pulga” became the first player in the history of the World Cups to score in each of the World Cup phases: Groups, Eighths, Quarterfinals, Semifinals and the Final, all in the same edition.
He managed to add 13 annotations in World Cups, which exceeds any other Argentine player. With that sum of goals, he tied Frenchman Just Fontaine for fourth place among the top scorers in World Cups, who continues to hold Miroslav Klose in the place of honor with 16 goals.
Lionel Messi is the top scorer in the history of the Argentine National Team, already with 98 goals, there is absolutely no one above him.
With seven shots that crossed the goal line in Qatar 2022, they make him the top Argentine scorer in a World Cup, a record that dates back to 1930 when Guillermo Stábile scored eight in 1930.
He is the oldest player to score twice in a World Cup Final. He with an age of 35 years and 177 days.
He was on the verge of breaking the World Cup win record, which still belongs to German Miroslav Klose, with 17 wins. Messi added 16, since the penalty shootout represents a simple tiebreaker.