The Albiceleste won, on Sunday, its third world title at the expense of the Blues (3-3, 4-2 at the T.a.B.). The first coronation for Lionel Messi, at the end of a match with rare suspense.
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Sunday, December 18 in Lusail, Qatar, the Blues lost their title of world football champion. In return, they won only eternal regrets. With the exception of “a village of irreducible Gauls”, the “whole world” desired the coronation of Argentina – until the Franco-Argentinian David Trezeguet, titled in 1998. And the “whole world” got satisfaction. On his fifth attempt, Lionel Messi finally gets the most coveted trophy on the football planet.
By recovering the title of best player in the competition, Lionel Messi allowed himself a small detour. Before going to pose in front of the photographers, the Argentine captain stopped in front of the World Cup, to drop a kiss there. After sixteen years of quest and at the end of a fantastic final, his Argentina dethroned the French team on penalties in the World Cup final (3-3, 4-2 at the T.a.B.). “This is the title I was missing and here it is. It’s crazy! He made himself wait. Winning the World Cup is the dream of all kids,” Lionel Messi reacted to the microphone of the Argentine broadcaster TyC Sports.
Ovated in an indescribable hubbub by the 88,966 spectators of the Lusail stadium before the match, Messi, author of a double, was even more so when he held up the ultimate trophy, wearing a traditional black and gold tunic offered by the emir Tamim Ben Hamad Al Thani. Arriving at the stadium in a Louis Vuitton trunk – a French luxury setting for an invention by the late Jules Rimet –, the famous statuette already seemed to have to return to the South American idol, for the entirety of his career.
In football, however, merit is a very relative notion. Never sacred, Johan Cruyff or Michel Platini know something about it. But Lionel Messi will not ruminate on the regret of this gaping hole in a record as extensive as his country.
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