FIFA World Cup 2022: Lionel Messi surpasses Cristiano Ronaldo, Diego Maradona and other records

Lionel Messi made his 1000th professional football match apperance when he faced Australia.

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Messi ended the 16-year drought of not being able to score a goal in the knockout stage of the FIFA World Cup.

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Messi scored his 9th overall World Cup goal and went past Portugal star Cristiano Ronaldo's 8.

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Messi has also broken legendary footballer Diego Maradona's record of eight goals for Argentina in FIFA World Cup matches.

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Messi has moved into 2nd place on Argentina's all-time list of World Cup goal scorers. Gabriel Batistuta has scored 10 goals.

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Messi won his eighth Man of the Match award in World Cups on Sunday, going past Ronaldo, who has seven

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Messi, has now moved to the very top of the Golden Boot leaderboard and is tied alongside France’s Kylian Mbappe, England forward Marcus Rashford and Netherlands' Cody Gakpo.

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