{"id":12268,"date":"2026-06-22T21:49:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T18:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=12268"},"modified":"2026-06-22T21:49:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T18:49:00","slug":"lionel-messi-became-the-all-time-leading-scorer-in-world-cup-history-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=12268","title":{"rendered":"Lionel Messi Became the All-Time Leading Scorer in World Cup History (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Lionel Messi<\/b> is the best <b> <\/b>to ever walk the earth, and he made sure to prove it in the match between <b>Argentina<\/b> against Austria in the <b><a href=\"https:\/\/tomanifesto.gr\/moyntial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">World Cup<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>The legendary <b>Lionel Messi<\/b> made history once again. The Argentine star, after first missing a penalty kick against Austria, <b>found the back of the net with a magnificent chip shot and gave Argentina the lead<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>This particular goal will be remembered forever, as <b>with it, Messi reached 17 goals in World Cup finals and became the all-time leading scorer in the history of tournament<\/b>, surpassing Miroslav Klose, who has 16 goals.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"embed-responsive\">   <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><b>The top World Cup scorers:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Lionel Messi (Argentina) \u2013 17 goals<br \/>Miroslav Klose (Germany) \u2013 16 goals<br \/>Ronaldo Naz\u00e1rio (Brazil) \u2013 15 goals<br \/>Gerd M\u00fcller (West Germany) \u2013 14 goals<br \/>Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 (France) \u2013 14 goals<br \/>Just Fontaine (France) \u2013 13 goals<br \/>Pel\u00e9 (Brazil) \u2013 12 goals<br \/>S\u00e1ndor Kocsis (Hungary) \u2013 11 goals<br \/>J\u00fcrgen Klinsmann (Germany) \u2013 11 goals<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lionel Messi is the best soccer player the world has ever seen, and he made sure to prove it in the match &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}