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Dec 18, 2022 · Lionel Messi and Argentina win astonishing Qatar 2022 World Cup final, the world reacts - 'Glorious, truly glorious'
- Rob Hemingway
- 5 min
Dec 18, 2022 · With 41 club and international titles to his name before, the World Cup win makes Messi the joint-most decorated footballer in history with his former teammate, Brazilian right-back Dani Alves.
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- Messi as The 'White Knight'
- Messi Is Our Greatest
By five years into his professional career, it was obvious Messi was dancing alongside the gods — the Maradonas and the Pelés. But while those two in particular earned their legacies early with World Cup wins (relatively young for Maradona at 25, extremely young for Pelé at 17), then spent the rest of their careers defending their reputations, Mess...
There is a strong case that he didn't need to win the World Cup to be regarded as the greatest. International football is incredibly fickle. What if France had won the shootout instead? What if Pelé had been born in Estonia and never won a trophy with his national side? Would that make him any less of a player? Some of football's most legendary nam...
Ironically, it was the Argentinians themselves who took the longest to acknowledge Messi's greatness. Normally a young Argentinian talent would emerge onto the local football scene to much excitement, then star for a year or two with Boca Juniors or River Plate before the move to one of Europe's cashed-up leagues. In that time he would have built h...
Argentinians no longer questioned his commitment to the cause, now they surged behind him in his quest to deliver a first international trophy for the country in decades. Eventually that came, in the toughest of circumstances, as Argentina beat Brazil, in Brazil, in the 2021 Copa America final. With Lionel Scaloni as coach, the team had finally wor...
Whether Argentina had won the final or not, it was a fitting end to Messi's international career that he graced a World Cup with his very best football. And his very best football is unmatched, perhaps ever. Messi can and will be proclaimed the best of all time in the wake of this tournament, but that's not to say the debate will cease. There will ...
Dec 18, 2022 · Dec 18, 2022. 1min 44second. Argentina striker Lionel Messi has the honour of lifting the 2022 FIFA World Cup™️ in Qatar after defeating France in an extraordinary final with a pulsating ...
Nov 26, 2022 · BBC Sport's Phil McNulty reflects on a tense night for Argentina and Lionel Messi after their 2-0 victory over Mexico in their second group-stage match at the World Cup.
Dec 18, 2022 · Published 3:03 AM EST, Sun December 18, 2022. Link Copied! Messi celebrates after scoring a spectacular goal in his Inter Miami debut in July 2023. He curled in a free kick in stoppage time to ...
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Nov 21, 2022 · Lionel Scaloni's team start against Saudi Arabia on Tuesday. Lionel Messi says he is entering the last-chance saloon in his quest to “achieve the great dream” of winning the FIFA World Cup ...
