// block 767944 · sport · 18 December 2022
Argentina win the 2022 World Cup
The moment this block marks: the kick-off of the final at Lusail Stadium, 18:00 in Qatar, 18 December 2022, 15:00:00 UTC. The first block mined after it is block 767,944, 18 December 2022, 15:04:37 UTC.
Lionel Messi came to the final of 2022 at his fifth World Cup, 35 years old and still without the one trophy he wanted most. Opposite him stood Kylian Mbappé, who had won it four years earlier at 19. For an hour at Lusail Stadium, the match belonged to Argentina: Messi scored a penalty, Ángel Di María finished a sweeping move, and France did not manage a single attempt on goal.
Then, in the 80th and 81st minutes, Mbappé scored twice, a penalty and a volley, and the final began again. Messi put Argentina ahead in extra time; Mbappé answered from the spot in the 118th minute, completing the first hat-trick in a final since Geoff Hurst in 1966. In the last minutes of extra time Emiliano Martínez blocked Randal Kolo Muani's shot with his outstretched leg. He saved again in the shoot-out, and Gonzalo Montiel scored the kick that made Argentina champions for the third time. That evening Messi also played his 26th World Cup match, a record.
The first block after the kick-off came quickly: FIFA's minute-by-minute data place block 767,944 in the fifth minute of play, with the score at 0-0 and the long drama still to come. Its hash, like every hash, can be checked on any node.
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