{"id":513928,"date":"2026-06-22T15:06:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T19:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=513928"},"modified":"2026-06-22T15:06:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T19:06:55","slug":"messi-breaks-record-for-most-world-cup-goals-and-help-argentina-win","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/messi-breaks-record-for-most-world-cup-goals-and-help-argentina-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Messi breaks record for most World Cup goals and help Argentina win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Argentina beat Austria 2-0 at AT&amp;T Stadium and had 2 victories after 2 matches as they almost certainly secured the top place in Group J with a game in hand.<\/p>\n<p>However, the most important thing that will be remembered from the match will be that Leo Messi became the highest goal scorer in men&#8217;s World Cup history with his 17<sup>th<\/sup> and 18<sup>th<\/sup> goals at the competition, as he broke the tie with Germany forward Miroslav Klose.<\/p>\n<p>Messi is now scored in 6<sup>th<\/sup> straight World Cup matches since 2022. Leo had a perfect chance to break the record early in the clash as Argentina received a penalty, but he failed to convert it. Despite that, in the 39<sup>th<\/sup> minute, Leo scored to write history.<\/p>\n<p>The Argentina captain evened Klose\u2019s record by scoring a hat trick during Argentina&#8217;s 3-0 victory against Algeria to kick off the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>The result remained only 1-0 for the South American side until the extra time, when Messi was at the right place at the right time, and the Argentinian superstar scored a goal to make his goals in World Cup history 19.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">History is made.<\/p>\n<p>Lionel Messi is the all-time top goalscorer in <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FIFAWorldCup?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">@FIFAWorldCup<\/a> history! \ud83e\udd29\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddf7 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iv8Oelxic2\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/iv8Oelxic2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; FIFA (@FIFAcom) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FIFAcom\/status\/2069117788317167848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">June 22, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Argentina beat Austria 2-0 at AT&amp;T Stadium and had 2 victories after 2 matches as they almost certainly secured the top place in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":513929,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16898,16724],"news_category":[14236,14235,16715],"gn_keywords":[17905,21743],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"Lionel became the player with the most scored goals in the World Cup.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/513928"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/513928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":513930,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/513928\/revisions\/513930"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513928"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=513928"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=513928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}