Lionel Messi lifted the trophy he most wanted in Qatar. For years, the Rosario star dreamed of raising the World Cup. And the feat was achieved in the Middle East. After so much sacrifice and suffering, the staggered defeated France by penalties and climbed to the top of the planet. And the albiceleste captain did not hesitate to express his anxiety by caressing the trophy at the award ceremony.
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Before the extensive dialogue that he gave him Gianni Infantino, when Leo was next to the Dibu Martinez Y Enzo Fernandez (other prominent protagonists of the contest), The flea he blurted out: “I want the Cup”.
For the second time in its history, Messi had been chosen best soccer player in the World Cup (The previous time was in the 2014 edition in Brazil, when Argentina lost in the final against Germany). However, the man from Rosario wanted the one they once kissed Diego Maradona and Daniel Passarella.
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The legendary PSG star has at least 13 years at the pinnacle of international football with a legendary track record but this 2022 was the one that forever assured him a place in the Olympus of divinities. Necessarily all future biographical production must develop with special attention the year in which he projected, executed and crowned the greatest goal of his sports career.
It was, nothing less, the title that was missing to finish making sense of the metaphor of the flag that shows it next to Diego Maradona in a recreation of the fresco of Miguel Angel on the Sistine Chapel of Vatican.
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Messi put an end to all the discussions, knocked down the arguments of his detractors one by one and made his greatness an objective fact. Football is debatable matter, Messi no longer. Leo became a myth.
Since his professional debut in 2004 he has recorded 793 goals, 350 assists, 1,003 games, 42 titles and 78 awards. In that staggering statistic, Qatar 2022 is inscribed as the moment of maximum glory in a much broader sense than the moment of raising the world Cup with the emir’s bisht Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani.
Messi demonstrated in the recent World Cup in the Middle East a universal transversality difficult to match for any mortal. His figure transcended ages, genders, nationalities, races and religions. Is he the most influential Argentine in history? In global terms, perhaps yes. There is no other antecedent of a personality on this earth capable of generating such a strong identification in children, men and women of all kinds of cult.
Messi treasures a planetary recognition that is born in his own country and travels the five continents, with singular expressions in Qatar, Saudi Arabia, India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, China or Japan, to cite some cases arbitrarily Where does the phenomenon of its popularity come from? In the beauty of his football, in the talent of an admirable left foot, in his ability to become, at the age of 35, the undisputed figure of a World Cup that he had as his goal since he played the first of his 55 games in the year, after overcoming the Covid.
The Argentine captain eclipsed all the celebrities who set foot in the emirate: Mbappé, Neymar, Lewandowski and Modric they played in the shadow cast by the star. Besides the title, Messi completed in Qatar a collection of records that reflect its size: maximum presence in World Cups (26 games), greatest historical Argentine scorer (11 goals) and footballer with the most games as captain (19).
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