The Albiceleste won, on Sunday, its third world title to the detriment of the Blues (3-3, 4-2 at TAB). The first coronation for Lionel Messi, at the end of an unreal suspense match.
by Anthony Hernandez (Lusail (Qatar), Special Envoy) and Clément Martel (Lusail (Qatar), Special Envoy)
The Blues have lost their title of world football champion but they won eternal regrets. With the exception of “a village of irreducible Gallic”, the whole world wanted the coronation of Argentina – to a 1998 world champion, the Franco -Argentin David Trézéguet. The whole world has obtained satisfaction. At his fifth attempt, Lionel Messi is finally world champion.
By recovering his trophy for best player in the competition in Qatar, Lionel Messi allowed himself a small detour. Before going to the photographers, the Argentinian captain stopped in front of the World Cup, to deposit him a kiss. After sixteen years of quest and at the end of an incredible final, his Argentina dethroned the French team at the penalty of the World Cup, Sunday December 18 (3-3, 4-2 at TAB). “This is the title I was missing and here it is. It’s crazy! He was waiting. Winning the World Cup is the dream of all kids,” said Lionel Messi at the microphone of the diffuser Argentin Tyc Sports.
ovationed in an indescribable hubbub by the 88,966 spectators of the Lusail stadium before the meeting, Messi, author of a double, was even more so when he brandished the ultimate trophy, coated with a traditional tunic Black and golden offered by the emir Tamim ben Hamad al Thani. Although arrived at the stadium in a Louis Vuitton trunk -French luxury setting for an invention of the late Jules Rimet -, the famous statuette already seemed to return to the South American idol, for the whole of her career.
In football, merit is however a very relative notion. Never sacred, Johan Cruyff or Michel Platini know something about it. But Lionel Messi will not ruminate the regret of this gaping hole in a list as extensive as his country, from the Andes to Patagonia.
Faced with the teammates of Hugo Lloris, the “pulga” (the chip), protected as an endangered species since the start of the tournament, scored a fourth goal on penalty – after a very slight fault of Ousmane Dembélé on Angel Di Maria. Its seventh achievement of the competition, the third Argentine evening of the evening during extra time, could have been the highlight of the show.
tragedy or vaudeville
Because the Lusail stadium turned into a piece with an unreal plot. And the French team played in any way possible. Mal, first, during a first act which seemed endless – and sufficient to the Argentines to score twice. A success of the Albiceleste then left nothing to complain about. Then, carried by an incredible breath, France believed to endorse the heroin costume, returning the brand for the first time in one minute thanks to a double from Kylian Mbappé – a penalty followed by a magnificent resumption of the volley. Then a second time, during the extension of a mad intensity, always by his star attacker – a second penalty.
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