Lionel Messi versus Kylian Mbappe. The magician and the machine. The king of football, looking for his crowning moment, and the heir to the throne - and the potential spoiler to this global sporting fairytale.
If you could script it, this is what you’d come up with - the most beautiful, narrative-rich ending to a tournament that, off the field, has exposed so much of the ugly side of football. On it, though, this is as good as it gets.
These are two of the most extraordinary footballers the game has ever seen, and it feels like destiny has brought them here, together, in Doha, their paths intersecting on the biggest stage in world sport. After all, the club they both play for, Paris Saint-Germain, is owned by the state of Qatar.
“[They said] Messi was just here on holiday, that he just walks everywhere. There was a feeling that it was not the Barcelona Messi that PSG had bought,” Thomson said. The pressure on him has been intense, more than what one man can surely absorb, but somehow, he’s done it. He’s here, in his sixth major final for Argentina, the last hurdle, one last hurrah.
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