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The 2026 World Cup may be just 10 days away, but the tournament has already rewritten football history.
Lionel Messi, Kylian Mbappé, Harry Kane and Erling Haaland all missed out on their respective countries’ opening games.
And as the World Cup’s greatest players prepare to take part in the second edition of the 48-team tournament, records look set to fall in abundance.
From Argentina’s Messi and Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo building their World Cup legacies to Mbappe becoming France’s all-time top goalscorer, BBC Sport takes a look at the major records that have already been broken or are about to be broken.
