Argentina’s players cheer at the Lusail Stadium after beating Didier Deschamps‘ France in the final of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
The players hugged each other at the full-time whistle, captivated by the raw emotion of the result. Their attention quickly turned to family as Messi and his colleagues desperately tried to find loved ones in the crowd with whom to enjoy this once-in-a-lifetime moment.
Antonela Roccuzzo, Lionel Messi's wife, celebrating with the World Cup trophy 🇦🇷💙 pic.twitter.com/noK2qHz41N
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“I was lucky to have achieved everything in this career … and this one that was missing is here,” he told the outlet. “It’s crazy… I wanted her [the World Cup] so much. I had a vision that this would be the one. I wanted to close my career with this. I can no longer ask for anything else. Thank God, he gave me everything”.
Lionel Messi has broken another record previously held by Cristiano Ronaldo 😬
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Messi explained, “I won the Copa America and the World Cup in a short time. I love what I do, being in the national team, and I want to continue living a few more games being world champion.”