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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 go

By The GafferJune 17, 2026

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...

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