🩵🤍 Emi Martínez: “What really matters is how much people identify with us, through the way we carry ourselves on the pitch and through what it means to be Argentine”.
“ALWAYS doing our talking ON the pitch, NEVER off it”.
This maybe a hot take, but I think what Messi has produced at this World Cup is the most impressive achievement of his entire career.
Yes, even above the 91 goals.
FIFA rankings before the World Cup:
Argentina
Spain
France
England
FIFA World Cup final:
Argentina vs Spain
Third-place match:
France vs England
This has to be the most balanced World Cup ever
We’ve come a full circle.
In 2007, Messi was paired with a baby named Lamine Yamal during a charity photoshoot. It could’ve been *any* child, but somehow, it was him.
This child went on to become the #10 of Barcelona and is the future.
17 years later, on Sunday, they meet again. The hands that once held the little prince, will now shake before battle on football’s biggest stage.
Too good of a script.
🫵🏼🇦🇷 Leo Messi: “It’s crazy what this group has been doing: five finals!”.
“We’re coming off winning the World Cup, we’ve been the best team over the last four years, and today we’re among the two best teams in the world, another final”.
🩵🤍🥺 Giuliano Simeone: “We know Messi is 39 years old, he has everything a footballer could dream… and then he is still fighting like as the best”.
“So for us, there’s only one thing left, give EVERYTHING we have, run for him and for Argentina”.