{"id":27925,"date":"2026-06-28T15:42:54","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T10:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/lionel-messi-scripts-history-breaks-brazil-legends-fifa-world-cup-record-to-become-football-news\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T15:42:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T10:12:54","slug":"lionel-messi-scripts-history-breaks-brazil-legends-fifa-world-cup-record-to-become-football-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/lionel-messi-scripts-history-breaks-brazil-legends-fifa-world-cup-record-to-become-football-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Lionel Messi scripts history, breaks Brazil legend&#8217;s FIFA World Cup record to become &#8230; | Football News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-132048733,imgsize-435616,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/cbv-47.jpg\" alt=\"Lionel Messi scripts history, breaks Brazil legend's FIFA World Cup record to become ...\" title=\"Lionel Messi\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Lionel Messi added another <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/fifa-world-cup\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">FIFA World Cup<\/a> record to his career after becoming the player with the most goals scored from outside the penalty area in the tournament&#8217;s history during Argentina&#8217;s 3-1 win over Jordan in their final Group J match in Arlington.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"5\"\/>The Argentina captain scored with a free-kick in the 80th minute at AT&amp;T Stadium on Saturday (local time). It was his sixth World Cup goal from outside the box, taking him past Brazil great Rivelino, who had held the record with five.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"7\"\/>The goal also took Messi&#8217;s overall World Cup tally to 19, extending his record as Argentina&#8217;s highest scorer in the tournament. He has now scored six goals in the ongoing World Cup.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"9\"\/>Argentina finished the group stage with three wins from three matches.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"13\"\/>Messi&#8217;s run in this World Cup began with a hat-trick against Algeria, followed by two goals against Austria. Against Jordan, head coach Lionel Scaloni rested the 39-year-old at the start, but he came on in the 60th minute and scored from a free-kick 20 minutes later.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"15\"\/>With that strike, Messi became the first men&#8217;s player to score in seven successive FIFA World Cup appearances.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"17\"\/>He also became only the fourth player to score in all three group-stage matches of a single World Cup since the current group-stage format was introduced in 1998. The others are Cristiano Ronaldo (2018), David Villa (2010) and Fernando Torres (2010).<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"21\"\/>Argentina also recorded their 50th FIFA World Cup win, becoming only the third nation to reach the milestone after Brazil and Germany.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"23\"\/>Despite making nine changes to the starting XI, Argentina remained in control throughout the match.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"25\"\/>Giovani Lo Celso, playing his first World Cup after missing the 2022 tournament through injury, opened the scoring in the 19th minute with a curling free-kick.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"28\"\/>Lautaro Martinez doubled the lead from the penalty spot after a VAR review awarded Argentina a penalty for a foul on Marcos Senesi. The Inter Milan striker scored his first World Cup goal.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"30\"\/>Jordan reduced the deficit in the 55th minute when Musa Al-Tamaari scored from close range after a cross from Ihsan Haddad.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"32\"\/>Messi&#8217;s introduction helped Argentina regain control before his free-kick sealed the 3-1 win.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"34\"\/>Argentina will face tournament debutants Cape Verde in the Round of 32 in Miami on July 4. Jordan were eliminated after losing all three group-stage matches, although they scored in each of their games.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"36\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/sports\/football\/fifa-world-cup\/lionel-messi-scripts-history-breaks-brazil-legends-fifa-world-cup-record-to-become-player-with-the-most-goals-scored-from-outside-the-penalty-area\/articleshow\/132048646.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lionel Messi added another FIFA World Cup record to his career after becoming the player with the most goals scored from outside the penalty area in the tournament&#8217;s history during Argentina&#8217;s 3-1 win over Jordan in their final Group J match in Arlington.The Argentina captain scored with a free-kick in the 80th minute at AT&amp;T [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27926,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}