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The World Cup Golden Ball has been given by FIFA to the best player at the World Cup since 1982; Argentina players have won it thrice; Maradona in 1986 and Messi in 2014 and 2022. [17] World Cup top goalscorer. Guillermo Stábile in 1930 and Mario Kempes in 1978 were both the top-scoring players at their respective World Cups. [18] World Cup ...
Football tournament FIFA World Cup final Founded 1930 ; 95 years ago (1930) Current champions Argentina (3rd title) Most successful team(s) Brazil (5 titles) The FIFA World Cup is an international association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport's global governing body. The championship ...
Argentina celebrating their victory in the 1986 FIFA World Cup final in Mexico. This is a record of Argentina's results at the FIFA World Cup. Argentina is one of the most successful teams in the tournament's history, having won three World Cups: in 1978, 1986, and 2022. Argentina has also been runner-up three times: in 1930, 1990 and 2014. In ...
A total of 471 players have been in the winning team in the World Cup. Brazil's Pelé is the only one to have won three times, while another 20 have won twice. Only players from Brazil and Italy, and one player from Argentina, have won the World Cup more than once. No player has won two World Cups both as captain.
Oldest player to win FIFA World Cup Golden Ball: aged 35 years and 178 days, in 2022 [321] Only player to have won more than one FIFA Club World Cup Golden Ball: 2009 and 2011 [322] First player to have won more than one FIFA Club World Cup Final Most Valuable Player award: 2009 and 2011 [322] Only player to score 40+ goals in 12 consecutive ...
Ahead of the 2022 tournament in Qatar, heres a list of the nations with the most FIFA World Cup trophies.
Brazil, Argentina, Spain and Germany are the only teams to win a World Cup hosted outside their continental confederation; Brazil came out victorious in Europe , North America (1970 and 1994) and Asia . Argentina won a World Cup in North America in 1986 and in Asia in 2022. Spain won in Africa in 2010.
At the 2022 World Cup, Adidas sold out Messi's No. 10 Argentina jersey worldwide. [337] After blessing himself, Messi often celebrates a goal by pointing a finger on each hand towards the sky in dedication to his late grandmother. [344] His goal celebration features in the FIFA video game series.