🚨 BREAKING: Lionel Messi suffers from discomfort but no serious injury ahead of the World Cup, tests confirm.
Messi, set to be available for Argentina. 🇦🇷
Argentina vs France — 2022 World Cup final.
You see football, it does things you don’t want to you sometimes, even when you have no link to the persons involved.
I wanted Messi to win the World Cup. It was just a desire to see a truly great sporting icon achieve everything he set out to. He’d won everything but one. He’d done everything thought impossible. He’d carried club and country on his shoulders for the better parts of a decade and that World Cup just had to be won. That was all I wanted.
I was shaking for the whole duration of the game, feeling feverish and apprehensive. Mbappe’s brilliance was a spectacle to behold but Messi’s World Cup glory is one the world needed. Mbappe can wait for his second ride. Messi’s haul had to be complete. For the sake of football’s better stories.
During the game, I hated how I felt. I promised myself it was the last time I’d ever feel that way about a football game and I meant it. I just love good things happening to people who deserve them. But I don’t want to have my body temperature rising and my legs shaking.
Now think of how an Argentine football fan would have felt that day. Think of what that moment means to them.
Then think of what Ronaldo said about that achievement. And how spiteful and obtuse he sounded about a man who’s achieved his one big dream and completed his greatness.