Not only Lionel Messi, captain and idol of the Argentine national team, has the great chance of being able to fight to lift the long-awaited World Cup in Qatar 2022, in what will be his fifth Senior World Cup in his career, but the star from Rosario It has the possibility of reaching five records.
Next, we will review them one by one, practically 60 days after the start of the dream of a country, in a column under the command of the amazing coach Lionel Scaloni.
Messi has played four World Cups (from ’06 to ’18) and, at 35, He will be the Argentine who has been to the World Cup the most timesdisplacing none other than Diego Maradona (from ’82 to ’94) and Javier Mascherano (from ’06 to ’18).
Messi will become the Argentine with the most World Cup matches, since he currently has 19 (with six goals), one less than Mascherano and two less than Maradona. That is to say that if he plays all three games in the group stage, he will leave both on the road.
Messi has 19 World Cup appearances. The player with the most games is the German Lothar Matthaus, who closed his career with 25, so if Argentina reaches the semifinals and Rosario plays all the games, there would be seven games (also counting the final or third place) and he would reach 26 .Will he?
Messi will equal the mark of the Italian Gianluigi Buffón, the German Matthaus and the Mexicans Antonio Carbajal and Rafael Márquez with five World Cups played. Cristiano Ronaldo and Mexicans Guillermo Ochoa and Andrés Guardado will also reach five World Cups.
The most complicated record of the five: so far Messi has six goals in World Cups and is far from the 16 of the German Miroslav Klose, but nothing is impossible. Ronaldo Nazario (15), Gerd Müller (14), Just Fontaine (13) and Pelé (12) follow on the list.
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