Lionel Messi broke the all-time World Cup scoring record today. The Argentine star netted his seventeenth goal in his nation's Group J match against Austria, surpassing Germany's Miroslav Klose, who had held the record with sixteen. According to ESPN News, Messi now stands alone at the top of men's World Cup history.

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