{"id":4782,"date":"2026-06-22T06:18:04","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T06:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=4782"},"modified":"2026-06-22T06:18:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T06:18:04","slug":"world-cup-2026-will-lionel-messi-erling-haaland-cristiano-ronaldo-harry-kane-and-kylian-mbappe-break-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=4782","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2026: Will Lionel Messi, Erling Haaland, Cristiano Ronaldo, Harry Kane and Kylian Mbappe break records?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">The 2026 World Cup may only be 10 days old but the tournament has already rewritten football history.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Not wanting to be outdone by the other, Lionel Messi, Kylian Mbappe, Harry Kane and Erling Haaland all came out of the blocks firing in their respective nations&#8217; opening fixtures. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And as the World Cup&#8217;s biggest hitters prepare to make their second appearances at the first 48-team competition, records aplenty look ready to fall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">From Argentina&#8217;s Messi and Portugal&#8217;s Cristiano Ronaldo extending their World Cup legacies to Mbappe becoming France&#8217;s all-time leading scorer, BBC Sport takes a look at a list of the major records already broken or set to be. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2026 World Cup may only be 10 days old but the tournament has already rewritten football history. Not wanting&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4783,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}