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Lionel Andrés Messi Cuccittini 🇦🇷🐐 | Thank you 💙♥️
🇦🇷💔 THE END OF AN ERA.
Lionel Messi has officially retired from international football. 🐐
After 21 years, 208 appearances and 126 goals for Argentina, the greatest chapter of his international career has come to an emotional end.
His final game? A 3–0 victory over Benin.
⚽ 1 goal
🅰️ 2 assists
🏆 World Cup
🏆🏆 Copa América ×2
🏆 Finalissima
He gave Argentina everything — and left the national team as its all-time top scorer and most-capped player.
Gracias por todo, Leo. 🇦🇷🩵🤍
The No. 10 era is over. 🥹👑
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Argentina🇦🇷 3 vs 0 Benin🇧🇯
🇦🇷💔 THE END OF AN ERA.
Lionel Messi has officially retired from international football. 🐐
After 21 years, 208 appearances and 126 goals for Argentina, the greatest chapter of his international career has come to an emotional end.
His final game? A 3–0 victory over Benin.
⚽ 1 goal
🅰️ 2 assists
🏆 World Cup
🏆🏆 Copa América ×2
🏆 Finalissima
He gave Argentina everything — and left the national team as its all-time top scorer and most-capped player.
Gracias por todo, Leo. 🇦🇷🩵🤍
The No. 10 era is over. 🥹👑
#VictorChuks #LionelMessi #Messi #Argentina #Football
🚨Ferdinand: Portugal coach must apologize or face dismissal
Rio Ferdinand has again taken to social media to comment on the dispute between Cristiano Ronaldo and the Portugal coach, stating bluntly that the coach must apologize to Ronaldo or risk being sacked.

Ferdinand said, "The coach has to come out and apologize... otherwise, he's eventually going to get sacked. He has to say publicly, 'Listen, I got this situation wrong.'" This comes despite the coach explicitly stating at a press conference following the team's victory over Norway at the Estádio do Dragão that he did not need to apologize to anyone.
Ferdinand compared the situation to that of Roberto Martinez: "All of this could have been avoided with good communication. I said the same thing during the World Cup when Roberto Martinez was in charge, and I hold the same opinion about this coach now. They have to sit down and talk to Ronaldo, tell him, 'This is what I want to do. If you don't want to be involved, let me know, but this is how things will go.'" Ferdinand believes the Al-Nassr player will make a return to the squad.
Ferdinand posted on social media: "Ronaldo's future with Portugal needs to be addressed! Poor team communication, lack of respect. Losing fans every day!"
Ferdinand concluded: "He still has a role to play, I believe that. The question is whether he's starting, coming off the bench as a super-sub, or starting some games and coming off the bench in others. That's the conversation that needs to happen, and then just stick to what was agreed. These coaches are paid to manage the team, but also to manage the players."
🚨 Ronaldo releases statement detailing fall-out, confirms he remains available for Portugal🇵🇹
Cristiano Ronaldo has accused Portugal coach Jorge Jesus of twice breaking his word, saying a failed agreement to publicly explain his omission against Norway drove him out of the camp but insisting he remained available after any punishment.
In a lengthy statement, the 41-year-old gave his account of the dispute that prompted his departure from Copenhagen before Portugal's Nations League match versus Denmark last week.
Ronaldo said Jesus had agreed a plan under which the forward would miss the Norway and Denmark matches to manage his fitness. However, on the day of the Norway game, the coach told him he would play for 30 minutes.
"Everyone knows the rest. I warmed up from half-time onwards, watched the minutes tick by and wasn't called onạỊiRonaldo said.
"The manager had broken his word to me."
Portugal's captain and all-time leading scorer said a subsequent meeting with Jesus, attended by his club side Al Nassr's sporting director Simao Coutinho, produced an agreement for the coach to clarify events at his next press conference.
According to Ronaldo, an eight-point document was prepared saying he had never demanded playing time, had respected Jesus' decisions and that the coach asking him to warm up without bringing him on had been a mistake.
Ronaldo said the agreed notes did not require Jesus to apologise to him but said the coach's public remarks bore no resemblance to their private discussion.
"It was the second time he had broken his word to me," Ronaldo said. "I decided to leave the training camp without waiting for any further broken promises."
The statement provided Ronaldo's account, but on Sunday, after Portugal's win over Norway, Jesus denied he had made any agreement with the player but left the door open for his return.
The Portuguese Football Federation (FPF) did not immediately respond to a request for comment about Ronaldo's statement.
Ronaldo apologised for failing to greet supporters after the Norway match and for leaving his teammates, accepting that his captaincy made his conduct more serious.
"The consequences of my actions must be assessed and punished by the Portuguese Football Federation," he said.
Despite the rupture, Ronaldo said he was not limiting his international ambitions to a farewell appearance.
ỗIf I'm physically fit, playing for my club - scoring goals, I hope - after serving whatever suspension is imposed on me, I'll be available, as I've always been until now, to compete and win for our national team," he added.
🚨🇵🇹 OFFICIAL! CRISTIANO RONALDO STATEMENT: “This is the truth on what has happened with Jorge Jesus”. According to Romano....
As I promised, I decided to recount, in the first person and directly, the circumstances surrounding the last training camp of the National Team.
After the 2026 World Cup I prepared a letter to the Portuguese people, which I still keep, with the words I want to address to them when I leave our team for good.
At the end of the competition, already on the flight back from the United States, the President of the Federation asked and insisted that I reconsider the decision to leave, because the FPF wanted me to continue.
Right afterwards he asked me for my opinion on the name of the current head coach, which he was considering alongside other names he did not reveal to me.
I told the President of the Federation that, in my opinion, it would be the right choice.
That is why, on the day the current head coach was presented, I was genuinely happy with the choice. It was the right option, as the results are confirming.
A few days later I received a first contact from the new national team coach saying he would like to meet me in person. I said yes and we scheduled it for the end of my holidays.
We met at the Cidade do Futebol, where my club was holding its pre-season training camp.
That day the coach told me he was counting on me and that my presence was fundamental to his project. He presented me, right there, with a plan for my participation. He told me I would play the first match and the last one, and that for reasons of physical management he would always make three to four changes per match.
At that point he raised the possibility of me not travelling with the national team to Norway and Denmark. He proposed that I play the first match and stay in Portugal, then rejoin before the match at the Dragão.
I refused this proposal immediately. It seemed obvious to me that I could not accept it. It was not because I would not play the matches abroad that I would stop captaining our team. That privilege of staying in Portugal would not be a good example.
The coach ended up agreeing with my analysis.
This conversation was attended by Simão Coutinho, sporting director of Al Nassr, the person to whom the current coach reported throughout last season and one of those responsible for his signing by the club in 2025.
On the eve of the start of the camp the coach came to my house in Lisbon, at his request, for another conversation with me. The conversation was calm and all the principles agreed in August were maintained.
I played the match at Alvalade and, although substituted, I made no problem of it. I put the armband on Bruno Fernandes myself, far from imagining that I might be taking my last steps as a player and captain of the National Team. What mattered to me that day was our victory. Winning is always good; in Portugal and for my country, even better.
At lunchtime on the day of the match in Norway, an assistant to the coach came to the table where the group was having lunch and informed me that the coach wanted to speak to me.
To my absolute surprise, the coach asked me if I was fit to play 30 minutes. I was fully focused on my physical recovery, integrated with my teammates as always, and thinking that I would not play that day. Without any problem.
This request was something outside my physical recovery and training plan — because I was only going to play on the 4th at the Dragão — but of course I said yes. He replied that I should then be ready because I would play 30 minutes.
The rest everyone knows. I warmed up from half-time, watched the minutes go by, and was not called.
The coach had broken his word to me.
Messi 🐐 The Greatest of All Time Plays His Final Game for Argentina 🇦🇷💔
From the little boy in Rosario to becoming one of the greatest footballers the world has ever seen.
Now, the final chapter with Argentina. 💔
Thank you, Leo. ❤️
The Argentina🇦🇷 vs Benin🇧🇯 match is happening today, 🕚 23:00 (11:00 PM), October 6, 2026, and is officially Messi’s farewell appearance for Argentina.
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