Lionel Messi looks like a man who is content win or lose.
In one year Interview with Guillem Balague Messi has admitted to CBS Sport and BBC Radio that Sunday’s World Cup 2022 final between Argentina and France or Morocco will “almost certainly” be his last at the World Cup and he thanked him for everything that brought him here. this stage.
Messi said in Spanish: “I’m enjoying it and I’m enjoying it in a different way than in the past for a while. “Not just on the national side, but in life.”
It will be Messi’s second World Cup final as Argentina lost to Germany in 2014, where Mario Götze won in extra time. It will be Argentina’s first World Cup title since Diego Maradona beat West Germany in Mexico City in 1986.
For Messi, it’s a chance to build on his legacy on the international stage, having won his first major trophy at last summer’s Copa America when Argentina beat Brazil in the final. His relative lack of success with the Albiceleste compared to the level of the club at Barcelona has always been a knock on his legacy, especially at home in Argentina.
And in his most recent World Cup, Messi was superb, with a penalty and a dazzling assist in the semi-final against Croatia his best performance in a tournament where he was the man of the match. . Argentina will go to the final with confidence.
“The truth is that this is a very strong group, very strong,” Messi said. “We said it when we lost in our first game [to Saudi Arabia] None of us expected it, we were confident because we know what this group has, its strength and ultimately, it helped us grow, made us stronger and we knew we could make it.
“Obviously, to be able to do this, to play my last game in the finals and finish my career at the World Cup, and the truth is that everything I’ve experienced in this World Cup is very exciting, what people here have experienced and how people in Argentina will enjoy it.
Messi highlighted Argentina’s 36-match unbeaten streak before a stunning defeat by Saudi Arabia to win their first major trophy since the Copa America in the summer of 1993.
“Obviously, we all want to lift it, we want to win the World Cup, but it’s a football game, anything can happen,” Messi said. “Yes, I hope this time will be different from Brazil [2014]”.
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