Stories that caught our eye: June 19 to 26

HUGE WEEK FOR MESSI Superstar Lionel Messi celebrated a bittersweet 39th birthday two days in advance last Monday by scoring two goals against Austria in Dallas last Monday, the first of which saw him overtake German striker Miroslav Klose to become the top all-time scorer in World Cup history – as fate would have it, exactly four decades after Diego Maradona scored both arguably the most brilliant and the most controversial (“Hand of God”) goals against England in Mexico City. But his week was also dogged by worries about the health of his father Jorge Messi, although he was checked out of a Rosario hospital last Tuesday, thus contributing to a happier birthday party the following day, while remaining unable to fly to the United States to watch his son’s glorious World Cup progress.

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