Lionel Messi made all the headlines in the World Cup final in Qatar. Well, almost all of them.
The multiple Ballon d'Or winner was lauded the world over for finally adding the one trophy that was missing from his vast collection, guiding Argentina to become world champions with a thrilling tournament display. Messi had long been labelled as one of the greatest of all time, but the GOAT tag looks to have firmly stuck now he has lifted the World Cup.
But while he was the man of the moment, not all of the headlines belonged to him. For his Paris Saint-Germain teammate Kylian Mbappe was also making waves at the tournament and even in the final itself. Mbappe, expected to take the title of best in the world once Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo retire, was on his own one-man crusade to lift the World Cup trophy aloft for a second successive tournament.
