Qatar 2022 has been a World Cup where everything has happened.
Selections that surprise, some sad disappointments and players who have marveled at the intensity with which they have played their matches.
There have been 64 games, which has left a champion, Argentina, and many memories for the fans.
But it has also been a World Cup full of records, both those set in the tournament and those set by the players, especially the legends Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo.
But not only them, for that reason at BBC Mundo we show you the main brands that they achieved in Qatar 2022.
The Argentine in Qatar has been tremendous.
He is 35 years old and he spilled the last drops of his immeasurable talent, one by one, in this World Cup.
And that marvelous display was also transformed into some brands, such as the fact that he is the footballer who has played the most matches in the World Cups: 26.
Thus, he surpassed Lothar Matthäus as the player with the most appearances in a World Cup.
In addition, in Qatar, Messi became the all-time goalscorer for his team in a World Cup: with the two achieved against France, he reached 13 goals and surpassed Gabriel Omar Batistuta, who had 10.
He even managed to beat a historic man like Pelé, who scored 12.
However, it was far from the 16 scored by the German Miroslav Klose, who is the greatest scorer in the history of the World Cup.
In addition to the seven goals scored in Qatar, he achieved the historic achievement of scoring in every game of the qualifiers.
In the round of 16 against Australia, in the quarterfinals against the Netherlands, in the semifinals against Croatia and in the final against France.
And as if this were not enough, the Argentine captain became the first player to provide goal assists in five different World Cups.
This also means that he joins the exclusive group of footballers who have played in five World Cups alongside Matthäus, Antonio Carbajal, Rafa Márquez and Cristiano Ronaldo.
Now, part of his five goals has to do with another record: Argentina is the team that was awarded the most penalties in a World Cup, with five.
Thus, it surpassed the four that had been charged to the Netherlands in 1978 and to Portugal in 1966.
Furthermore, by leading Argentina to a new title, he makes it the first South American team to win a World Cup since Brazil did so in Korea and Japan in 2002.
Despite the defeat, Kylian Mbappé’s finish was historic.
Three goals that allowed France to reach penalties alive and that made the PSG forward the top scorer of the tournament with eight goals.
In total, there are 12 goals that the Frenchman has already achieved in the World Cups.
Only four of Klose’s record and with only two tournaments played and 23 years old.
In addition, with his hat-trick against Argentina, he is the second to achieve it in a World Cup final, after Geoff Hurst in 1966, and the first to score 4 goals in World Cup finals.
There were many legendary players at this World Cup.
One of them was of course Cristiano Ronaldo, who left another couple of marks.
The main one is that with his goal against Ghana, he became the only player to have scored in five different World Cups.
Ronaldo scored in Germany 2006, South Africa 2010, Brazil 2014, Russia 2018 and now in Qatar 2022.
In addition, with his participation in Qatar, he also joined the exclusive group of players who have played five World Cups.
Perhaps the main fact of this World Cup is that for the first time in the history of the men’s World Cups, a shortlist of referees made up of women would be in charge of administering justice in a match.
It happened in Germany vs. Costa Rica, when Stephanie Frappart, Neuza Back and Karen Díaz refereed the match.
But Qatar is a tournament that set records from the opening game: Qatar became the first host team to lose in the opening game.
To this record he added that it was the first local team to lose the three games it played.
A few days later, the longest match in the history of the World Cups in a group stage was recorded.
It was in England vs. Iran, which finished 6-2 and counted 117 minutes, because the judge of the match decided to add 14 minutes of replacement in the second half and 10 in the first.
The days continued and the numbers and records also accumulated.
The brothers Iñaki and Nico Williams became the first brothers to play in a World Cup with two different teams.
Nico was with Spain, while his brother represented Ghana, the country of origin of their parents.
And Morocco became the first African team to reach the semifinals of a World Cup.
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