Les Bleus lost their football world championship title but they won eternal regrets. Except “from a village of irreducible Gauls”, the whole world wanted the coronation of Argentina – until a 1998 world champion, the Franco-Argentinian David Trézéguet. The whole world got 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 pose in front of the photographers, the Argentine captain stopped in front of the World Cup, to give him a kiss. After sixteen years of quest and at the end of an incredible final, his Argentina dethroned the French team on penalties in the World Cup final, Sunday, December 18 (3-3, 4-2 on pens). ” That’s the title I was missing and here it is. It’s crazy ! He made himself wait. Winning the World Cup is every kid’s dream.” reacted Lionel Messi to the microphone of the Argentinian broadcaster TyC Sports.
Applauded in an indescribable hubbub by the 88,966 spectators at the Lusail stadium before the match, Messi, who scored twice, was even more so when he brandished the ultimate trophy, wearing a traditional black and gold tunic. offered by Emir Tamim Ben Hamad Al Thani. Although it arrived at the stadium in a Louis Vuitton trunk – a French-style luxury setting for an invention by the late Jules Rimet – the famous statuette already seemed destined to return to the South American idol, for his entire career.
In football, however, merit is a relative concept. Never crowned, Johan Cruyff or Michel Platini know something about it. But Lionel Messi will not ruminate on the regret of this gaping hole in a track record as extensive as his country, from the Andes to Patagonia.
Facing Hugo Lloris’ teammates, the “Pulga” (the chip), protected as an endangered species since the start of the tournament, scored a fourth goal from the penalty spot – after a very slight foul by Ousmane Dembélé on Angel Di Maria. His seventh achievement of the competition, the third Argentine goal of the evening in extra time, could however have been the highlight of the show.
tragedy or vaudeville
Because the Lusail stadium has been transformed into the stage of a play with an unreal plot. And the France team played in every possible way. Badly, first, during a first act that seemed endless – and enough for the Argentines to score twice. A success of the Albiceleste left, then, nothing to complain about. Then, carried by an incredible breath, France believed to endorse the costume of the heroine, returning for the first time to the mark in one minute thanks to a double from Kylian Mbappé – a penalty followed by a magnificent volley. Then a second time, during extra time of crazy intensity, again by his star striker – a second penalty.
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