Messi after putting Argentina 2-0 up. More drama was to come. Photo by FRANCK FIFE / AFP)
Lionel Messi responds to questions around whether this is his last World Cup
Lionel Messi has responded to questions around whether World Cup 2022 will be his last participation at this tournament.
Messi after putting Argentina 2-0 up. More drama was to come. Photo by FRANCK FIFE / AFP)
Lionel Messi has made his intentions clear after this World Cup is finished.
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Messi says this will be his last World Cup
Argentina came agonisingly close to glory in 2014, only to lose to Germany 1-0 after extra time at the Maracanã in Brazil. He’ll now be the 29th player to lose a final and then get to play in it again. Of the 28 that have gone before him,13 have managed to put it right and lift the biggest prize in the sport.
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This is only the second time from World Cup 1990 onwards that a semifinal has been won in 90 minutes by more than one goal (that one was won by six goals by Germany, against Brazil, in Brazil. How could we ever forget that? Argentina have still never lost a World Cup semifinal, by the way.
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Argentina now wait for the winner of the other semifinal, France vs Morocco, which kicks off at 21:00 (SA time) on Wednesday December 14th.
The final on Sunday December 18th kicks off at 17:00 SA time.
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