India, June 17 -- It was that kind of day; the kind when you start thinking of the greats. Of Garrincha, Ferenc Puskas, Pele, Johan Cruyff, Franz Beckenbauer, Michel Platini, Diego Maradona, Marco Van Basten, Zinedine Zidane, Ronaldo (the OG), Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. The list isn't exhaustive. It isn't even close. But as the Argentina vs Algeria game ended on Wednesday, it was hard not to fall into a dream state.

The trigger, of course, was Lionel Messi's hat-trick. He's 38 but the touch hasn't deserted him, nor has the goal-scoring instinct. Exactly 20 years after he scored his first goal at the FIFA World Cup on June 16, 2006, he scored another three. We could say a lot but perhaps Erling Haaland's words on Snapchat said it...