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will he lift it?! nice read.
This time he should lift it....am keeping my fingers crossed
I so want to see Argentina lifting the cup this time. It will be a Sachin moment of 2011 for me 🤩
Lionel Messi is a monarch without the hauteur monarchs are identified with. Unbelievable are his skills, incredible his achievements.
But there has always been a thin line that separates sporting geniuses from leaders on the pitch. Sporting leaderships have rarely been acts of silent execution. Theatrics often play a part, intimations of immortality never kept under the wraps.
Messi has been a silent leader. But not of late. Certainly, not since the Copa America victory over Brazil in Maracana in 2021.
He ceased to believe in coincidence. He told teammates in the dressing room “....And I want to finish with this: coincidences don’t exist. This cup was going to be played in Argentina, but God wanted it to be played in Brazil, so that we could win here in the Maracanã and make it more beautiful for all of us.” And Argentina went on to clinch the title.
Argentina hasn’t lost a game in three years, and no individual feat that Messi hasn’t owned.
One of the most influential British football writers Sid Lowe wrote in the Guardian many years ago: "It is no longer about whether or not Messi is currently the best player in the world; it is about whether he might even be the best there has ever been."
But it all boils down to one sublime thing when it comes to lifting the world cup at Qatar. Messi continuing to believe and making his teammates believe that coincidence don’t exist..