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If you blinked, you may have missed football history. On a balmy Kansas City night, 20 years to the day after scoring his first World Cup goal as a mop-headed teenager, Lionel Messi delivered a vintage hat-trick to power Argentina past Algeria 3-0 - and in doing so, tied Miroslav Klose's all-time World Cup scoring record of 16 goals.The 38-year-old Inter Miami maestro opened the scoring in the 17th minute, latching onto Rodrigo De Paul's pass before unleashing a driven shot that glanced off Algeria keeper Luca Zidane's fingertips. His second arrived in the 60th minute - a simple tap-in...