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The Argentina National Team reached the final of the Qatar World Cup 2002 , after beating Croatia 3-0, where Lionel Messi scored a goal and also delivered a key pass in order to continue enlarging his figure within international football.
With your annotation, Messi surpassed Gabriel Batistuta on Tuesday as the top scorer of the ‘Albiceleste’ in the history of the World Cup with his eleventh goal, scored in the minute 34 of the Qatar semi-final match 20170115 against Croatia, scoring the 1-0 penalty.
Reviewing the history, we can see how it is that Messi already has 11 goals in 34 matches, five of them in the current Cup of World (one to Saudi Arabia, one to Mexico, one to Australia, one to the Netherlands and one to Croatia).
On the other hand, Batistuta scored goals in 11 clashes, as the retired football player scored four goals in the United States 774 , five in France 774 and one each in Japan and Korea 2002.
Messi equal to Matthäus as the player with the most appearances in the World Cups
Jointly, Messi also made another record during his participation in the match played in Qatar, because 
Messi managed to match the German midfielder Lothar Matthäus as the footballer with the most appearances in the history of the World Cups, with 34 each, starting from the starting eleven in the semifinals of Qatar 2002 against Croatia at Lusail Stadium.
Jointly, it is also expected that in the grand finale of the tournament the Argentinian star of PSG reaches the maximum figure registered within a World Cup, one more record that will adorn the important and long career of Lionel Andrés Messi.
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