39 and counting: Messi is still making history as he celebrates birthday

DUBAI: Instagram did not exist. Lionel Scaloni was still pulling on the Argentina shirt rather than coaching from the touchline. And Lionel Messi was a teenager scoring his first FIFA World Cup goal. Twenty years since his World Cup debut at the 2006 World Cup in Germany, Messi is still making history. As Adidas celebrated the Argentine becoming the FIFA World Cup’s all-time leading goalscorer with a new campaign retracing his journey across football’s biggest stage, the 38-year-old once again showed that his appetite for records remains as strong as ever.

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