{"id":418093,"date":"2026-06-23T08:11:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T08:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/?p=418093"},"modified":"2026-06-23T08:11:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T08:11:41","slug":"messi-sets-world-cup-scoring-record-with-18th-tournament-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/2026\/06\/23\/messi-sets-world-cup-scoring-record-with-18th-tournament-goal\/","title":{"rendered":"Messi sets World Cup scoring record with 18th tournament goal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2013 Lionel Messi became the outright leading scorer in World Cup history with his 18th tournament goal after scoring twice in reigning champion Argentina&#8217;s 2-0 victory over Austria on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Messi opened the scoring in the 38th minute after failing to convert an early penalty, with his left-footed attempt in the ninth minute drifting just wide of the right post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Argentina captain sealed the win deep into stoppage time, netting his second goal in the fifth minute of added time (90+5) to extend his all-time World Cup scoring record to 18 goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The brace also extended Messi&#8217;s scoring run to six consecutive World Cup matches, equaling an achievement previously reached by France&#8217;s Just Fontaine and Brazil&#8217;s Jairzinho.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Messi had matched Germany&#8217;s Miroslav Klose on 16 goals after netting a hat trick in Argentina&#8217;s 3-0 Group J win over Algeria last week in Kansas City.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His two goals against Austria moved him clear at the top of the tournament&#8217;s all-time scoring chart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Monday&#8217;s match also marked Messi&#8217;s FIFA-record 28th World Cup appearance, his sixth tournament overall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2013 Lionel Messi became the outright leading scorer in World Cup history with his 18th tournament goal after scoring twice in reigning champion Argentina&#8217;s 2-0 victory over Austria on Monday. Messi opened the scoring in the 38th minute after failing to convert an early penalty, with his left-footed attempt in the ninth minute drifting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12903],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-418093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-12903"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":418094,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418093\/revisions\/418094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}