Five years after missing the Euro 2020 final penalty as a teenager, Bukayo Saka ended his first World Cup with a hat-trick, four goals and a bronze medal. The journey between those two moments is one of sport's finest redemption arcs.
At 27, Kylian Mbappé has more World Cup goals than any man in history. He has more tournaments still ahead of him. The conversation about where this ends has barely started.
He scored at six World Cups. Nobody else has scored at five. In Dallas, in tears, clutching the armband, Cristiano Ronaldo's World Cup story ended.
22 June 1986. The Azteca. One man, one match, two goals — one infamous, one immortal.
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