Messi's last World Cup was not meant to start like this but there are no allowances for destiny 🟢 Sport analysis by samcunningham
The cameras feeding the big screens were pinned to Messi when Argentina emerged for the warm-up, 45 minutes prior to kick off. The hundreds of cameramen and women jostled with one another behind their rope barrier during the national anthems, all lenses on one man. The Saudi Arabians who would finish the protagonists of this story almost an afterthought: extras in a one-man show.
The majority of those present in the stadium were in Argentina’s light blue and white shirts, perhaps knowing this may be their final time to see him live, in the flesh, at a World Cup. handing over the World Cup trophy to Messi. Messi as Adam in Michelangelo’s The Creation of Adam, touching the finger of Diego Maradona, in the place of God, with the wordsMessi is now only the fourth person to play in five World Cups — the first for Argentina. It felt fitting that he would score their first goal of the 2022 edition, a penalty 10 minutes in, rolled serenely into the left of Mohammed Alowais’s goal as the Saudi goalkeeper dived right.
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