Lionel Messi Confirms Retirement After FIFA World Cup Qatar Final Game

Lionel Messi Confirms Retirement After FIFA World Cup

Lionel Messi confirms retirement after FIFA World Cup Qatar final game: After Argentina’s brilliant win by 3-0 over Croatia in the semi-final game, Lionel Messi reiterated that he will be playing his last FIFA World Cup game when Argentina will face either France or Morocco in Sunday’s, December 18, final game in Qatar.

Messi-led Argentina Defeated Croatia 3-0 in the Semi-Final Game

Notably, Messi-led Argentina defeated Croatia 3-0 in their semi-final match on Tuesday. Messi will earn his 172nd cap as he will be trying to bring the first World Cup title since 1986 to Argentina.

The Argentina football superstar Messi scored a penalty kick goal and an assist helped Argentina enter into second final in the last three World Cups.

“I feel very happy, to be able to achieve this, to finish my World Cup journey by playing my last game in a final.”

Lionel Messi’s words in an interview to Diario Deportivo Ole, an Argentine media outlet

Messi perhaps rightly added this:

“It’s many years for the next one and I don’t think I’ll be able to do it. And to finish like this, it’s the best.”

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Messi Playing Record Fifth World Cup Games in Qatar

The 35-year-old Argentine captain is playing his fifth World Cup games in Qatar, ahead of the four each of Diego Maradona and Javier Mascherano. He also made a record by netting 11 times in World Cups: his fifth goal in World Cup in Qatar made him ahead of Gabriel Batistuta as the top Albiceleste scorer at FIFA World Cups.

Reflecting his true leadership psyche and abilities, he said:

“It’s all well and good (the records), but the important thing is to be able to achieve the group objective, which is the most beautiful thing of all.”

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Lionel Messi is very much clear on his Final game in Qatar:

“We’re just one step away, after fighting hard, and we’re going to give everything to try to make it happen this time.”

Lionel Messi

With this World Cup games Messi has achieved the following feat, which has made him immortalized.

Messi: Argentina’s Highest World Cup Football Scorer

Lionel Messi surpassed Argentina football’s icon Gabriel Batistuta and has become Argentina’s top ever scorer at a World Cup games after his lead in Tuesday’s World Cup semi-final game against Croatia in Qatar’s Lusail Stadium.

Messi’s Individual Records

Lionel Messi has achieved more caps (166, 172nd cap is expected while Messi would be playing in the Final game against either France or Morocco) and more goals (92) than any other player in the Argentine football history. Next, he has to his credit 52 direct goal assists, most than any other Argentinean footballer. He led Argentina to the Copa America title in 2021 and it is sure that if his team would be able to win the World Cup final in Qatar his set of medals would be complete and will make him the best player of all time.

Messi surpassed the record of playing most games in World Cups. He has now the record of being first player in the World Cup football history to both score and assist in four separate matches.

More records we expect would be broken when we would see Lionel Messi playing in the FIFA World Cup Final game in Qatar on December 18 in Lusail Stadium against either France or Morocco. Stay tuned for more brilliant performances from Lionel Messi and his teams and from others as well in the two more matches left in the 2022 World Cup tournament.