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Lionel Messi will retire after the FIFA World Cup? Coach says
Presently aged 35, this has been charged as Lionel Messi’s last opportunity to win a World Cup, eight years on from Argentina’s loss in the last to Germany in Rio de Janeiro.
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Argentina vs Croatia
For one of most greatest footballers ever, Lionel Messi is yet to get his hands on the FIFA World Cup. Messi and Argentina’s World Cup dream stays alive yet a relentless Croatia side propelled by the persevering through brightness of Luka Modric hinders them in Tuesday’s semi-final in Doha. Presently aged 35, this has been charged as Messi’s last opportunity to win a World Cup, eight years on from Argentina’s loss in the last to Germany in Rio de Janeiro. Not set in stone to immediately jump all over the opportunity and has proactively scored his initial two objectives in the knockout rounds of any World Cup, netting against Australia in the last 16 preceding his penalty against Netherlands.
World Cup brilliance would finish a superb vocation for the seven-time Ballon d’Or victor, who is conceivably the best club player of all time. Following quite a while of being unfulfilled at international level he roused Argentina to victory finally year’s Copa America, yet he realizes there are not any more hounded or strong rivals than Croatia.
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Lionel Scaloni
A big question that is on the personalities of all football fans is that whether he will retirement after the FIFA World Cup, taking into account his age. Argentina mentor Lionel Scaloni on Monday was reserved over the eventual fate of Lionel Messi yet said he would “appreciate having him” while he was all the while playing. Messi, 35, conceded before the tournament that this would probably his last World Cup.
Scaloni, whose own short International career momentarily encountered that of Messi’s, has communicated trust that the seven-time Ballon d’Or champ will keep on playing international football. “How about we check whether he continues to play or not yet for the second we are about to appreciate having him,” he said. “All that thing could happen to us and to the football world.
