Gooooooooals: Tracking Mbappé and Messi’s battle for the all-time World Cup scoring record
It has taken 12 years to break this World Cup record, but any minute now it could be broken again. Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content.
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It has taken 12 years to break this World Cup record, but any minute now it could be broken again. Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. The record for most goals scored in a World Cup career has become a battle between the man who set the new record last week and the man likely to beat him. In his sixth and widely expected final World Cup, Argentine Lionel Messi, 39, has scored eight times already, including a hat trick in his opening game, catapulting him past Miroslav Klose’s 2014 record of 16 World Cup goals.
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- It has taken 12 years to break this World Cup record, but any minute now it could be broken again. Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content.
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Gooooooooals: Tracking Mbappé and Messi’s battle for the all-time World Cup scoring record
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