Overview Of Lionel Messi's World Cup and career highlights.

Lionel Messi's goals in FIFA World Cups.

Lionel Messi is the leading scorer from Argentina in World Cup of football. He scored 13 goals in 26 games in Qatar 2022. Without any doubt Lionel Messi is one of the best top leading scorers in football history. He scored around 750 goals for club and country. He gave an outstanding performance in World cup 2022.

Over the course of 26 games and five FIFA World Cups (2006, 2010, 2014, 2018 and 2022) Messi leads Argentina with the highest goals scored in the football World Cups. Lionel Messi is the main player from Argentina. He scored 98 goals in 172 international matches throughout his career.

A journey from failure to victory of Messi in the 2022 World Cup.

In 2014 World Cup Messi helped Argentina but unfortunately lost the final. Argentina gained confidence after that because Messi was naturally emerging as their star player. Messi came back after eight years in his unstoppable form scoring seven goals during the tournament. The 35 year old Lionel Messi increased his World Cup goal scoring record in Qatar at the FIFA World Cup 2022.

Success of Messi in the club game.

At 13 Messi enrolled in Barcelona's youth program and spent most of his professional career there. He scored 672 goals in 778 games in all competitions. He leads Barcelona on score bored. Messi came to PSG in 2021 and made 53 appearances. From 2021–2022 he helped the team to win the French Super Cup and the League 1 championship.

Primary World Cup (2006).

While playing for Argentina in the 2006 World Cup Messi became the youngest Argentine to play and score in FIFA's premier event. Germany eliminated Argentina in the quarterfinals. Lionel Messi scored his debut goal against Serbia and Montenegro in 2006 FIFA World Cup. Lionel Messi was then 18 years and 357 days old. He became Argentina's youngest scorer at the FIFA World Cup with his debut goal at the international competition.

World Cup 2010.

When the World Cup 2010 was arrived people made a lot of expectations from Messi. This time Messi wanted to prove it. Messi leads Argentina to the Olympic gold medal in Beijing 2008 and made the expectations high. This time Argentina once more reached the quarterfinals.

In 2012.

He made a new record in 2012 and broke the Gerd Muller's previous record of 85 goals in a year 1972. That record stood for 39 years. Muller said: " He is a great player ". Messi became the first performer in history to won the trophy four times during that great year.

World Cup 2014

Lionel Messi still had a lot of pressure to proved in 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil. This time Messi grabbed the competition by the collar. He worked really hard and applied his effort or extraordinary techniques to won the worldcup. But they lost unfortunately.

Lionel Messi was nearly single handedly carried Argentina to the championship game With four goals but Messi and his team ultimately lost when Germany defeated them 1-0 in the championship game. At the 2014 World Cup Lionel Messi was the top player in his team. He also received the Golden Ball award and selected as the tournament's best player.

World Cup 2018.

Argentina was eliminated by France in the round of 16 at the FIFA World Cup 2018 in Russia. Messi kept Argentina's hopes alive to the end during their 4-3 loss to France in the semifinal match.

World Cup 2022.

2022 FIFA World Cup held in Qatar, all eyes were on the football legend Lionel Messi. He lead his national team Argentina. Messi's extraordinary skills and mesmerizing style of play captivated fans around globally. Lionel Messi performed wonderfully. He scored seven goals in total matches. Although he fell one goal short of Kylian Mbappe's total and missed out on the Golden Boot. Messi scored in each of the four knockout rounds of the competition and was never happened before in a FIFA World Cup. His performance was still enough to give Argentina third World Cup victory.

Career Achievements.

He appeared in total five World Cups.

He played 26 World Cup tournaments and now he is the player with numerous worldcup appearences.

His total goals in FIFA World Cups is 13 which is a record for Argentina.

He played two World Cup finals in 2014 and 2022.

He won Man of the Match in World Cup 2022.

He won Man of the Match award 11 times in total five World Cups.