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Haaland and Messi at the 2026 World Cup: when a tournament tilts on one man's boots
Norway leans on Haaland the way Argentina leans on Messi. ESPN's group-stage reads suggest both teams face the same structural risk: lose the talisman and the tournament goes with him.

Desk note: Monexus framed this as a structural dependency question rather than a star-worship piece. The wire read pushed hard on individual quality; Monexus reads the same data through squad-depth and knockout-margin analysis.
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