The FIFA World Cup saw another record-breaking day by day, as this time when many stepped up their game and made their own following.

Hakimi has now created 21 chances in the World Cup, trailing only Ivory Coast’s Yaya Toure (23) among African players since 1966.

This is the first time South Africa have reached the Knockout stage of a World Cup.

Vinícius Junior’s header score against Scotland was his first Vinícius Junior header score in his international career.

Carlo Ancelotti is the first Italian manager to reach the knockout stages of the FIFA World Cup since Fabio Capello did so in 2010 for England, 16 years ago.

Ismael Saibari is the first ever Moroccan player to score in all three group games at a single World Cup tournament.

⚽ vs. Brazil
⚽ vs. Scotland
⚽ vs. Haiti

Cr 7, at 41 years, 138 days, becomes the second-oldest goalscorer in World Cup history — behind only Cameroon’s Roger Milla, a goalscorer in 1994 against Russia at the age of 42yrs.

Cristiano Ronaldo: The first man to score at six FIFA World Cup tournaments.

Haiti’s have their first FIFA World Cup goal since 1974! Against Morocco.

There are still FOUR teams yet to concede a single goal at the World Cup

🇲🇽 Mexico
🇪🇸 Spain
🇦🇷 Argentina
🇬🇭 Ghana

Apart from the fact that the World Cup produces iconic moments that fans will remember forever, this is the ultimate event which brings people together, even at work or in the streets people are talking about.
As 195 recognized countries in the world today which just 48 countries are competing in the current FIFA World Cup has expanded from the previous 32 countries, making this year’s edition of special events more interesting.
As of today 12, teams have booked their spot in the round of 32.
Remember the top two teams in each of the 12 groups, along with the eight best third-place finishers, advance to knockouts.

Who has qualified for the World Cup 2026 knockout stage round of 32?

Mexico 🇲🇽

Mexico from Group A who happened to be the hosts of this year’s World Cup, were the first to qualify for the knockouts by topping Group A with 9 points. The 1-0 win over South Korea on Thursday, June 18. The Mexicans started their campaign with a 2-0 win over South Africa in a chaotic tournament opener.

USA 🇺🇸

The United States from Group D
Were the second team to secure a spot in the knockouts with a 2-0 win over Australia and their 4-1 win over Paraguay in their opening campaign really helped them be the champions of group D.

Germany 🇩🇪

The 7-1 win against Curacao and 2-1 win on Saturday, June 20 over Ivory Coast give them chances to proceed to the next stage of Group E .
Remember this is a country that failed to get out of the group stage in Russia 2018 and Qatar 2026.

Argentina 🇦🇷

Argentina got their ticket to the knockouts with a Lionel Messi hat-trick goal which gave them a 3-0 win over Algeria in the opening game and a 2-0 victory over Austria on Monday, June 22 to
Top Group J, although they still have one game to play at the group stage.

France 🇫🇷

France was amazing, beating Senegal 3-1 in their kick-off game and Iraq 3-0 on Monday to secure a place in the round of 32.

Norway 🇳🇴

Norway beat Senegal 3-2 in their second game of the tournament and Iraq 4-1 to get their place in the knockout stage since the last campaign at the FIFA World Cup.

Colombia 🇨🇴

Colombia have booked their spot in round 32 with 6 points by beating Uzbekistan 3-1 in the opening game and DR Congo on Tuesday, June 23, 1-0.

Switzerland 🇨🇭

Switzerland finished top of Group B with seven points, unbeaten with a 2-1 victory against co-host Canada on Wednesday, June 24 in Vancouver.

Bosnia and Herzegovina 🇧🇦

Bosnia and Herzegovina’s case for a place in the last 32 was confirmed with a commanding 3-1 win over Qatar. The team finished third in Group B as one of the best third-place qualifiers.

Brazil 🇧🇷

Yesterday, June 24, Brazil advanced to ⁠the knockout stages of the World Cup with seven points and a +6 goal difference after a 3-0 win over Scotland in their final group stage game.

South Africa 🇿🇦

Banana’s unexpected 1-0 win against South Korea on Wednesday, June 24, officially advanced the African nation to the Round of 32. It’s the first time South Africa will take part in the knockout rounds.

Morocco 🇲🇦
Morocco came second to qualify in the same group as Brazil on goal difference after beating Haiti 4-2.

Apart from Lionel Messi still leading in goal scoring, assists and games played at the FIFA World Cup.

🇦🇷 Messi:
👕 28 games
⚽️ 18 goals
🎯 8 assists

🇵🇹 Ronaldo:
👕 24 games
⚽️ 10 goals
🎯 2 assists

But the determination still reflected in 41-year-old Portuguese Cristiano  Ronaldo as he can’t be subbed off after a four-goal lead. Maybe what people throw at him makes him so energetic, as he said : “They said I should retire… but I am here.”

“The noise from outside is always like this, but we can’t control it. We keep going and we are united.”

It was :·Reporter: Did you say “I’m back” to the camera?

Cristiano Ronaldo: “Yes, so that they do NOT forget.”
Here are the records set by him after the game.

▪️ Ended a 10-match goal drought for Portugal at major tournaments.
▪️ First player ever to score 10 goals at both the World Cup and European Championship.
▪️ Portugal’s all-time leading World Cup goalscorer.
▪️ The oldest player ever to score a World Cup brace.

With his assist for Kylian Mbappé’s goal, Michael Olise is now joint-top of the most assists at the 2026 World Cup:

As the thrill of a football match lies in the pursuit of one ultimate objective: scoring goals, but it is is very difficult to score goals in a match without being assisted by a team mates, mostly those who assist might also score them but looking for who is best position to do needful. Apart from Michael Olise scoring 27 goals in two seasons at Bayern Munich, back-to-back Bundesliga titles and a Player of the Season award, his creative role for France at the World Cup 2026 was amazing to check how Olise was full of energy as it France opened with a 3-1 win over Senegal at MetLife Stadium. He played the full 90 minutes and was man of all moments as an effective creator, laying on a goal and creating four chances in all, with two shots of his own, eight passes into the penalty area and five corners. Kylin Mbappé scored twice and Bradley Barcola added another as France made a strong start, with Olive’s creativity central to the win and also turned magic in their game against Iraq having two assists, 59 touches, 6 touches in opposition. Box, 6 duels won, 5x possession won, 3 chances created,3 shots and
3 successful take-ons. These are all that led him to join top of the most assists in the ongoing 2026 World Cup with assist.

The names of the top assistants presently are listed below.

🇫🇷 Michael Olise — 3
🇸🇪 Alexander Isak — 3
🇩🇪 Joshua Kimmich — 2
🇪🇸 Brahim Díaz — 2
🇳🇱 Denzel Dumfries — 2
🇩🇪 Deniz Undav — 2
🇪🇬 Mohamed Salah — 2
🇵🇾 Julio Enciso — 2
🇳🇿 Chris Wood — 2
🇳🇱 Ryan Gravenberch — 2

Goals scored in the game of football are the beauty of the game and one that makes the game more meaningful, because people just go to the result and see who scored, they don’t even watch the game, but keep telling people it was ‘this that destroyed this club. Making good records keeps the memory of certain players when issues are discussed in football game. Kylian Mbappe’s joined the race with legend in most goals scored in World Cup history after scoring two goals as France 🇫🇷 won 3-0 against Iraq yesterday on going fifa world 2026.

Here is the list of the most goals scored in World Cup history:

◉ 18 – Lionel Messi
◉ 16 – Kylian Mbappe’s
◎ 16 – Miroslav Klose
◎ 15 – Ronaldo Nazário
◎ 14 – Gerd Müller

Then the question is this: Who will finish the tournament on top in history, the Fifa World Cup as at 2026 World Cup: Messi or Kylian ?

USA score their first goal of fifa world cup in 2026 fifa world cup opening game

IVan perisic second Messi to be the player to assist at four different world cup tournament

curope has their first debut fifa world cup goal

Scotland have their first fifa world cup win since 1998

Cabo verbes first ever point in their first ever fifa world cup game

Lionel Messi,guillermochoa and cristiano Ronaldo are only player exclusive six time fifa world cup since 20006_2026

Switzerland first win of the fifa World Cup

Thomas tuchel win his first world cup match as England manager

Lionel Messi is the only player who won two fifa world cup and golden ball award

Kylian mbappe is the only player who has scored highest goal in FIFA world cop final.

Highest goal in fifa 2026
Messi=3 goal
Halland=2 goal
Mbappe=2 goal
Kane=2goal

USA winning consecutive World Cup games for the first time since 1930 .

Ghana equal Nigeria’s record for the most FIFA World Cup wins by an African nation by win six game

Edin Dzeko become 4th  position outfield player age 40+ to play FIFA men World Cup

 

 

The FIFA World Cup is the biggest football event in the history of the football gathers over 30 countries together for one trophy 🏆 with over 700 players of different qualities and have certain players who do great by scoring goals and lead the goal scoring as follows

Miroslav Klose 16 goals
Lionel Messi 16 goals
Ronaldo de Lima. 15goals
Gerd Muller 14 goals
Kylin Mbappe 14 goals
They have done wonderfully to the beauty of the game.

1
Miroslav Klose was born in Opole, Poland, in the Silesian region of Central Europe on June 9, 1978, in Opole, Poland. His parents were top athletes: his father, Josef Klose, played for the French professional football club Auxerre, and his mother, Barbara Jez, represented the Polish women’s national handball team. The German football player who played in the center forward position as a striker. Klose is the all-time leading goalscorer for the German men’s national team. He shares the record for the most goals scored in the history of the men’s FIFA World Cup tournament with Argentina’s Lionel Messi. Klose was part of the German national team that won the World Cup in 2014.

2

Lionel Messi was born on June 24, 1987, to a middle-class family who lived in Argentina. Growing up in a football-loving family, he developed a passion for football from his father at an early age.
At 5, he showed great skills at a local club coached by his father.
When he was 11, he was diagnosed with growth hormone deficiency and had to seek medical assistance. His quote: “Every night I had to stick a needle into my legs, over a period of 3 years.” Unfortunately, his family could not afford the treatment for long.when he was 13, FC, Barcelona offered treatment which led to the top 5 all-time goal scorers in Fifa men’s world .

3

Ronaldo Luís Nazário de Lima (born September 18 or 22, 1976, Itaguai, Brazil) and grew up in the poor Rio de Janeiro suburb of Bento Ribeiro. He began playing football as a junior for the neighborhood Social Ramos Club at age 12 and two years later joined São Cristóvão in the Carioca League. By 1992, he was playing in the Brazilian championship for Cruzeiro. This amazing player was first introduced to the world in 1994 at age 17, and was the youngest member of the Brazilian squad that won the 1994 FIFA World Cup. At the 1998 FIFA World Cup, Ronaldo received the Golden Ball and led Brazil to a World Cup title in 2002.

4

Gerhard Müller was born on November 3, 1945, in Nördlingen, Germany. The names of his parents are unknown and there are few known facts about his early life. But at the beginning of his career, Gerd Müller played for his boyhood team, where he bagged 52 goals in the 5th division.

5

Kylin Mbappé Lottin was born 6 months after France won the World Cup in 1998, which fell on the 20th of December 1998. Mbps was born in Paris, France to parents Wilfried Mbappé, a father from Cameroon & Fayza Lamari Mbappé’s mother from Algeria.he began playing football at age 6, under Antonio Riccardi.