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🐔 ⚽️ KELLOGG'S FOOTBALL CAMPS SUPER-WEEK (DAY 2): 🐐 LIONEL MESSI WORLD CUP SPECIAL: FROM GERMANY 2006 TO FIFA 2026 ⚽🔥🇦🇷🏆

9 Jun 2026 · 16 min

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Lionel Messi at the World Cup is one of football’s greatest ever stories. In this special Football For Kids episode, we follow the Argentina legend from his very first World Cup appearance as an 18-year-old wonderkid in Germany in 2006, all the way to the dramatic road towards Russia 2018.

Discover how Messi scored a goal and created another on his World Cup debut, why he could only watch from the bench as Argentina were knocked out by Germany, and how he returned four years later as one of the most famous footballers on the planet.

We explore the buzzing vuvuzelas of South Africa 2010, the crushing defeat to Germany, and Messi’s magical performances in Brazil in 2014, where Argentina came agonisingly close to lifting the trophy.

There are dramatic late goals, penalty shootouts, heartbreak and a brilliant hat-trick in Ecuador that helped rescue Argentina’s World Cup dream.

This is Lionel Messi’s World Cup story: Part 1. 🇦🇷⚽🐐

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