, not the match-winner, conscious of the man who had got them over the line with all but the last kick.
Messi not only scored twice – the first a penalty, the second a scramble over the line – but led Argentina throughout, registering a goal in every knockout round. The Paris Saint-Germain forward is the first man to achieve that feat, but the one accolade that really matters is the golden one he clutched onto atop the podium long after the final whistle.
It seemed the perfect finale to his Argentina career, one which has taken in numerous highs but also plenty of lows. Aside from tasting defeat to Germany in 2014, he briefly retired from international football in 2016 after losing the Copa America final to Chile on penalties. It took him five years to avenge that by winning the competition in 2021 and now he has done the same with the World Cup – but he insisted after the game that this is not the end, even now he has ticked the final box.
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