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  After 16 years 9 games and immeasurable pain and heartbreak Leo Messi finally lifted His World Cup curse and scored in the knockout stage.The kid from Rosario is edging closer to his dream and he just surpassed a football legend Maradona along the way.Qatar 2022 is the fifth and the last time the world gets to see Leo Messi on the biggest stage of international football and the puga is making sure that this one's for the history books, after a shocking start to the tournament Messi had found a way to lift his team up and reach the seminfinal stage the only place where he hadn't scored a goal before incredibly so for a man who has found the mark 788 times in his career.So when the lb Celeste took on the sakurus at the Ahmad binali Stadium yesterday in what was Messi's 1000th game in his career the Pulga was not only up against the defensively sound and incredible physical side but also against the curse that's been haunting him for nearly two   decades. The first h