Historical! Argentina beat Bolivia: all the records it broke in the Qualifiers match

The records that “La Scaloneta” broke in the 6-0 victory against Bolivia

The match was not only a rectification of the high level of “La Scaloneta”, but it was also the framework for many records of different kinds to be broken:

• Messi became the second player with the most goals at national team levelby surpassing the Iranian Ali Daei (he reached 112 and was only behind the 131 of the Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo).
• Messi became the first player in the history of the Qualifiers to score three hat tricks (the previous ones had been to Ecuador in 2017 and Bolivia in 2021).
• Messi joins the list of players with two triplets against the same rival in the Qualifiers. It is completed by Brazilians Tostao (to Venezuela) and Zico (to Bolivia).
• Messi became the first player to participate in five goals (three scores and two assists) in a single matchsince Joaquín Botero did it in Bolivia’s 6-1 win against Argentina, with the same statistics as the “Flea”.
• They passed 18 years since the last time Argentina won a match 6 to 0. The last time was in the 2006 World Cup, against Serbia and Montenegro.
• Last night was the biggest win for the Argentine National Team in the Qualifiers.
• Lionel Scaloni became the second coach of the Argentine National Team to win games 1-0, 2-0, 3-0, 4-0, 5-0, 6-0 and 7-0. The other one who achieved it was Guillermo Stábile.
• Nicolas Paz became the youngest player in the history of the Argentine National Team to debut in an official match and participate in a goalwith only 20 years and one month. This was thanks to his assist for the third goal in Messi’s personal account.

Messi scored a hat-trick but did not take the ball: why?

The curiosity of the match was that, at the end of the 90 minutes, Messi did not take the ball, which belonged to him for having scored three goals. After highlighting the group of players who accompanied him, journalist Rama Pantorotto told him that he already has 10 hat-tricks with the national team and He asked him where the match ball was..

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“They told me just that… that Marito has it (team prop), He saves it for me and I’ll take it next time. In fact, I think I have a couple saved here,” explained Lionel. This way, The ball has already been transferred to the AFA grounds so that the Argentine star can take it to his museum.where he keeps individual and collective awards, as well as memories of matches that marked his career.