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Kylian Mbappe is now the greatest goalscorer in French football history. The Real Madrid forward broke through in the second half against Senegal with a low finish, then sealed it with a stunning long-range strike deep in stoppage time, lifting his international tally to fifty-eight goals and France to a three to one World Cup opening win.
And if that wasn't enough to remind you we're living in a golden era, Lionel Messi answered right back. The Argentine legend delivered his first ever World Cup hat trick against Algeria, equalling a record sixteen World Cup goals. At thirty-seven years old, Messi isn't fading — he's rewriting the ceiling on what's even possible at this stage of a career.
With both men on two goals apiece through the opening round, the golden boot race at World Cup two thousand twenty six is already electric. Mbappe and Messi are the early front-runners, but Erling Haaland and Harry Kane are right there breathing down their necks — and we are just getting started.
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