MADRID, Spain.- Lionel Messi, one of the greatest players in soccer history, could win the Soccer World Cup this Sunday, a title longed for by the fans and by the player himself.
After beating Luka Modric’s Croatia, current runner-up of the tournament, 3-0 this Tuesday in the semifinals, the Albiceleste will face the winner of France-Morocco in the final this Wednesday.
In a match that they dominated from the start, Lionel Scaloni’s men beat the Croats with goals from Leo Messi (1), from a penalty, and Julián Álvarez (2).
Messi, 35, recently declared to the Argentine medium ‘Ole’ that this will be his last World Cup, so what may happen will be even more expected.
“I feel very happy to be able to achieve this, to end my World Cup career playing my last game in a final. (…) The next one will be many years away and I don’t think I can do it. Finishing like this is the best”, declared the man from Rosario, who has won everything individually and at the club level.
This will be the 172nd game for Lionel Messi, who is playing his fifth World Cup, surpassing the four for Diego Maradona and Javier Mascherano.
The Argentine team, which is playing its sixth final in a Soccer World Cup, comes into the match in excellent shape, after having a World Cup in which it became stronger and stronger, after falling versus saudi arabia in the first match of Group C.
We will have to wait if the outcome will be different from that of Brazil 2014, where the Argentines lost in the final against Joachim Löw’s Germany, who won 1-0 in extra time thanks to a goal by Mario Götze.
Although Argentina did not take the Cup home, that year Lionel Messi was chosen by FIFA as the winner of the Ballon d’Or for the best player in the World Cup.
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