Tuesday’s match against Curacao saw Argentina captain Lionel Messi break the 100-goal threshold for the world champions by scoring a hat-trick. In a 7-0 rout of Curacao on Tuesday, Messi scored a hat-trick in just 37 minutes. With the goals, the 35-year-old joins Ali Daei of Iran (109) and Cristiano Ronaldo of Portugal (122) as the only players to reach over a century at the international level. Moreover, Messi is the first male South American athlete to accomplish the feat.
He scored his 100th goal in style, opening the scoring in the 20th minute by receiving a pass in the box, eluding his defender, and deftly sending the ball into the bottom corner.
