Messi & Mbappe Madness

ESPN FC

ESPN

Soccer, Sports

4.3 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2026

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

The FC crew react to Lionel Messi's hat trick vs Algeria and break down all the records the Argentine broke on his way to an opening World Cup victory. Plus, Frank Leboeuf joins the show to react to France's win over Senegal and praise Kylian Mbappe for a brilliant 2nd half performance. The guys also give out their predictions for how they think England and Portugal will kick off later today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.5	Coming up, the star power was out in full force.
0:34.0	Killing-Haland got the show started.
0:36.6	Erling Harland then lit it up with a brace of his own
0:39.3	and then came Leonel Messi with his first World Cup hat trick.
0:43.3	Now it's over to Cristiano Ronaldo and Harry Kane as Portugal and England enter the fray.
0:50.3	ESPNFC next.
1:04.5	Good morning to you all and welcome to our World Cup morning edition of ESPNFC.
1:08.2	We've got to see the stars in action last night and more of them are coming up today and we've got a star studded panel today right here in the studio as well
1:11.5	Stuart Robson is back with us. Kieran Gibbs entering the competition for us here on the morning show
1:17.6	and Shaka Hislop along for the ride. Here as usual. Here as usual and we love to have him here.
1:23.3	Argentina back in action. The paper's going crazy about what we saw from Lionel Messi.
1:28.4	They got their World Cup title defence underway in Kansas City yesterday, taking on Algeria,
1:34.4	a game in which Messi's got his first ever World Cup hat trick.
1:39.4	And so we went way back to June 16th of 2006 to see his first World Cup goal.
1:45.0	And here we are with his latest three yesterday.
1:48.0	At 38 years old, he's almost 39 as well, and he's still going strong.
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