Lionel Messi’s heel turn from quiet genius to snarling avenger has been on full display in Qatar as he carries Argentina into the World Cup semifinals
LUSAIL, Qatar—Lionel Messi has played in five World Cups and hundreds of enormous, planetary matches. He’son earth. But if you thought you had seen it all from Messi over the past two decades, you were wrong.
Here in Qatar, where he’s chasing the one trophy that has eluded him, the world is witnessing a new side of Lionel Messi. And it’s a little bit terrifying.
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