Lionel Messi, star and captain of the Argentine national team, announced this Thursday that Qatar-2022 will “surely” be the last World Cup of his career, in an interview granted this Thursday to the sports channel ESPN.
“It’s my last World Cup. Surely yes. I feel good physically, I was able to have a very good pre-season this year that I hadn’t been able to do the year before, it was fundamental to start in a different way and to arrive as I did, with a great mentality and a lot of enthusiasm”, said Messi.
‘The flea’, historical scorer of the albiceleste team with 90 goals in 164 games, will play its fourth World Cup in Qatar-2022.
The 35-year-old striker also admitted that “there is anxiety, nerves for the World Cup. We can’t wait for it to arrive, ”she confessed.
About the present of the team led by Lionel Scaloni, undefeated for 35 games, Messi considered that he is going through “a good moment”.
“We arrived at a good time, with a very armed and very strong group, but anything can happen. All the games are very difficult. The favorites are not always the ones who end up winning or doing the path that one expected,” he said.
“Argentina is always a candidate, because of its history and what it means“, pointed out the native of Rosario.
“But we are not the only favoritesthere are other teams that are above us”, he remarked.
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