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In football in this thing

that we've invested so much time in following.

He's the best we've seen.

And to know that that might the end and this might be

the last time you see him, I think that's almost unimaginable.

He's the best player in the history.

One thing missing from me was the World Cup.

This was it really for her.

She knew this was probably the last

big shot at the World Cup.

A dream does being elusive over

so many years.

For the World Cup individual.

This Argentina all out.

That's the World Cup for Messi.

It's destiny.

And by

watching the world, there's

a new number ten.

And his. Friends who've won.

Through to the World Cup quarter finals.

In terms of delivering a World Cup.

The Football Association had a single objective find a manager

that could work with Messi's.

Argentina has a wonderfully kind of varied relationship between national team

and manager, but usually the manager has quite a that role

as some sort of personality or character, whether it's in the multi chain smoking

and being intellectual or billionaire, being ridiculously strict.

ZARRELLA Being authoritarian or basilar, being incredibly kind of libertarian.

But Stalinism is like we didn't really know that much about him when he arrived.

Most people were furious and against his appointment

because it felt like that job should go to a character

and it just went to, you know, a guy who was

sort of anonymous.

He brought togetherness in the group.

That's the hardest part to monitor Argentina,

because you always are going to have talented players is how to manage them

is to have enough variety. And if you don't know how to drive it,

then you're going to crush in every corner.

That's the only application I could give to Scaloni.

You know, this will be such a drive Ferrari voice now.

So in that game guess I am filosofia

como como base load or euro.

You got to be in a low key one and also sandy to be an equal no opinions and what

I mean in the end it all us

all little selection.

Mania.

But I imagine Camilo they've been saga purgatory.

For the Mundo. Then if you're not at all,

you're foolish.

So you really meant that they keep

in a moment on official validation.

Dany, guide us on my shoulder.

Yeah.

You know, Europe will see that they pour their real men.

They were King and Danielle and Dany.

Well, I think he should have. Can, you know, get to him.

We'll see you soon.

Yeah, I'm.

At it all starts

with a conversation that Scaloni had with Messi.

What do you want to do?

What kind of player should we have?

What would it work for you?

I think it could be this, but what do you think?

And it was an equal conversation and you have to do that when you've got

the best player in the world, you have to do that.

It's a commodity or give it to a parent.

If I see if I see Goldman say don't quote I see you Masai in the Kadena Draft

some group Aquatica Korean told Bulgaria no.

But he had a clear idea that they had connected Scaloni

and Leo in a way that I don't think managers in the past have done that

well.

The news that has the whole football world talking,

it was a very complex day, three days, four days earlier, he was crying.

He didn't want to leave Barcelona.

You could sense that he was a little bit out of place.

The psychological effects

of a change like that, a huge.

When you have to leave one player that you've been for so long.

He's not just about a football team.

It is also about your friends and your family.

Your kids truly was tough, but of course, then the pressure was there

and you can see on the pitch it's first season probably was

not come is expected to be.

For little by little at the end of that first season, everything was clicking.

He was flying in Europe, he was flying in like Guam.

And with Argentina it was working so well because everybody understood

we want Leo to be the World Cup winner.

So he went to Qatar. Were ready

really for him under. Oh.

Okay. Sorry.

I'm sorry.

I don't feel my minder.

So, Andrea.

About me heading into Qatar.

It's the first time for a long time.

I think I just had got into a World Cup as are the favorites a second.

Oh and they.

And they're on this 36 game unbeaten run so it won the Copa America

the previous year and that was hugely significant

because they hadn't seen it on this is 1993 the curse was lifted.

The team

before the World Cup been an incredible run.

And I think we all had that feeling that we were going to go into the World

Cup winning, going to smash every single team.

I think even for Messi, this World Cup was special and he wanted to win.

This woke up at all cost.

Over $50.

He was.

Like, No, no, I want to leave everything on on on the pitch.

I want to carry this team to the final again.

I cannot miss that chance.

In his own words, Lionel Messi.

He begins the journey to win the World Cup, the fifth

and final time of asking.

It was like the last chance, the last dance about the World Cup.

So I think that Messi was feeling like confidence.

He was he was he he know what he

wants.

Argentina were like expecting good results were

with a lot of hope in this team.

They thought that this could be the chance.

Argentina in control in the lead

courtesy of an al Messi penalty.

Saudi Arabia looked like an ideal team

to kick off the campaigning style, but we got nervous.

The players started to panic.

Al Maliki's goal through

Al Sherry.

As he cries for Saudi Arabia.

They they did the impossible.

Al up eight

and they're all at sea suddenly here Argentina.

And then now behind.

You know in a boxing match

they knock you out.

And we couldn't. We lost a fight.

It was an extraordinary match, really.

Saudi Arabia at some incredible energy and was absolutely kicking

lumps out of the Argentinean players right throughout, including Messi.

And, you know, what do they have about three shots,

I think, in the whole game, but managed an incredible victory.

It's one of the world Cup all time shocks.

After the game, we were in shock.

The players were in shock.

Argentina got to Qatar without conceding many goals

and suddenly we conceded two against, you know,

the Saudis.

Slightly shell shocked.

This is one of the greatest World Cup shocks in history for those fans.

And the watching blue of Argentina.

Because as I know yesterday.

They put a huge

know what to expect in an Argentinean hopes,

having gone into that sort of so confident and then to lose against

one of the weakest nations in the tournament.

It meant to be easy, you know, meant to be like to carry.

And what we did, it was the hardest night of my life.

After

I couldn't sleep,

I was afraid of getting knocked out in my first World Cup.

I was afraid of what was happening.

Think we all needed, like, feet on the ground.

That's, you know, like, this is the world Cup.

Anything can happen.

Did I show Leo coming out and speaking to every single broadcaster?

Stop everywhere, repeating the same sentence.

Stick with us. We bet on this.

We know when I let you down, stick with us.

We bet. On this. We're not going to let you down.

Stick with us. Got on this. We know when to let you know

what we say.

Well, when things didn't go our way in the past, Leo, we look sad and look down.

But this time was a different Leo, you know,

he was the first one to believe.

One of the main strength of that team is how they came through those moments.

After that, Scaloni gave a press conference saying, Look, it's only a game.

My brother has been calling weeping.

Everyone's weeping, and really we all need to kind of

turn it down a notch.

A 380 game leads here.

You know, they can be allowed to perpetrate

on a premier hope in certain positive.

He'd been sort of somebody referred to are they kind of who are Mastrangelo

get to sit down and talk to Chico

when I see Leo but then you go do in a nap

allowed a hoot up but he made up breaking elaborate and secondhand.

Yeah people are going to

come over

so DeRozan or but I get a couple of ladies some more than this

he came in court to get then it only Monday or not

you know when you go gay

so if you missed that I know a lot of Purdue.

The population was on tenterhooks

for any tidbit of mood

and emotional well-being of the squad because after Saudi Arabia,

that was such a such a depleted sense of we were all so hyped up.

And as this is going to be over by Saturday.

I think in an odd way, the defeat to Saudi Arabia actually did some good.

And I think maybe if you do go unbeaten for that long, you do complexity

is maybe the wrong word, but you lose a bit of the hardness that you need.

And obviously if you go

six games unbeaten, you don't want to change too much.

What it allowed me to do after that game, you had to change stuff

and you could bring in McAllister and Alvarez and Fernandez, three players,

the early twenties, who hadn't been there at the beginning of the run.

And the three of them

are all absolutely critical in terms of getting them on the right tracks.

Scaloni was very proactive to change two or three players

to go into these must win game

one mistakes and you go home every minute.

Could have been the last minute.

This reflected an incredible sense that it was all or nothing.

We lose, we out.

And bad in the first half against Mexico.

You could see all the doubts had been there in the last half hour.

In societies, all the same problems.

Everybody very anxious.

They were sat next to Simeone and I will never forget

at halftime we look at each other thinking,

That's going to be tough.

You can really see that the tension was there.

You could hold it and break it.

It was de was obvious. He was it was touchable.

There was such a poor performance.

They thought, it's too young a team.

Maybe they just don't know how to deal with these pressure.

Cooker from a window Everton the important

day Monday.

But at halftime

Messi again gave everybody confidence because he said

we can do this, we're not playing well here but it's about winning.

We can do this.

I mean, we better than them.

I'm sure that we're going to win, but

you need to wait for someone to get in the ball and.

Produce a moment of magic.

The World Cup turns on Messi getting half air space.

If not, he has to do it.

There's nobody else to do it.

This team ranks

Argentina seven.

He was a moment of relief

which just charmed life celebrating like I was.

I was playing again.

Suddenly the weight is lifted.

The threat of going out in the group stage is lifted.

And I think this time the supporting cast, particularly the three younger players,

because some of ours and Fernandez were able to step up and support.

Colony,

he understood that this could be the last World Cup.

So I need group of players surrounded Messi every one of them has to work hard.

No 100%, 120% for Messi because when he's on the ball, he has to make a difference.

What I think he was really clever in that they were running

almost twice as much for Messi.

There were so many similarities to this Argentinean team,

to the one I played against in 86 with with Maradona.

Not many superstars, but much better than people give them credit for.

You've got McAllister who came out of nowhere. He got Alvarez.

They were tough at the back and have Martinez in goal.

So I think the young players had to step up

and their work ethic was exemplary.

It shouldn't take that long

to realize that when you've got a genius, you've got to treat him differently.

But in football there is big egos and the guys

that you take into the national side are the geniuses of their teams.

So try to tell them now too.

Actually, can you put that down?

Because there's only one that is a genius here in the past that didn't work

because there were big players that wanted to make that impact

and did not want to hand over total authority to one person.

But you're talking about players in this group that admire Messi

that fell the responsibility of getting Messi and them.

But first Messi is first World.

Cup and this colonia saw that have Julian Alvarez I got McAllister

I got into four man this that when I give them a chance

to win treble.

The eyes

of the world is firmly fixed on let alone massive.

He carries his country's hopes.

Of progression again.

Szczesny denies Leon al-Masri

against Poland.

When he misses the penalty. It's fine.

He was in such a passive mental state that once Mexico was

was born, it's like we're going to be fine.

And he felt in that game that it was when the youngsters

kind of stood up and said, we can be counted.

He showed a totally papa

look at Eric at the end and political purpose only at the end, and

no importantly little into taekwondo is opened

fire for glory.

You would have thought a Brighton player would be a key player in the World Cup.

Nobody in England? No. Been Argentina, Toby.

Not because of himself.

I like to show you physique.

I'm in demand element and momentum move.

I know they mean out much I confianza.

Before the work

of Alexis was not in the starting 11, but the important thing in Alexis

I think that he could help in and out of roles was a very good player

in the perfect moment.

He's a complete me.

He was doing everything for that team, the link

with Messi and so Alexis was incredible with De Maria.

Like they've been playing together for, I don't know, five or six years.

A small I will get a kick at this moment.

I'm not going to see him again. No.

Like him, I'll note again an important role

as he doesn't get off when they get in momentum but you

you are working with see to it a wonderful CASA

came from

elevate him but I bought myself a four year 4 million but then I meet Amanda

so my life story as I am get to a set of guy the the the what a psychopath.

And so that moment of finales on the L.A.

Times is how easy she thought on a thousand

bunches may be an agonizing moment.

They had thought about that.

But at least this I know when you

give us

Pastore by some Mirabile

yet I will get now get out of bed out but I mean it's just when I walked in here

and we ran the and I had a player who I do not when I go by alone.

No no.

Brighton has his first ever international goal.

And what's a time to score it for me in the.

Momentum we Michelle and boy they try and play down

and whatever you want to work on contact me said that I said next year and Drew

knew it I'm from India from last year to our mutual my windows official is

but I said well we don't get much more than just.

The team

was not Messi dependent and we had other options

he they or positions just put two players on Messi or three players on Messi

then that we create more space for other players.

The respect that Messi generate on his teammates create these moments of magic.

Fernandes.

All the hits.

Alvarez

The ones I need to know.

You're going to get a lot sooner. Die Hard.

But as I've been given a window because you are a little savvy

colonia football player about the committed Oladipo

when you listen to him in the game get dry

it actually are Confianza you are going to live

without me University Biology of Dallas.

It's a little less his dream of emulating

Diego Maradona a 36 years ago.

He's still alive.

To win

against Mexico, then plan a thing that he would call him,

you know, like in confidence.

He seems like now I see the Argentina team that I saw before the World Cup.

I don't know if I can explain what happened with this team.

I think that sometimes

magical things happen, you know, about people that there

and I think that is Colonia was one of the most important piece of this team here.

Understand that it was very important.

The human part, the family spirit that he create.

Like illusion until and perfect

the only and build moment on us and the most common casa nakata.

Their true goal at La Liga by Sam Morsy.

And my dear Joe I don't I got an outstanding.

I think that all Argentinian people if you have matched it through of course

and beautiful barbecue he's so happy you don't need more

you don't need more than life.

And I think these three things in something that for us is like religion.

You know.

I in Barcelona said game but we used.

To love the barbecues.

There was much press coverage on the amazing amounts

of Argentinian made that were flown over 2000 kilograms of meat.

With six seven barbecues.

In 1986.

Diego Maradona's Dad Making the shadows is a kind of crucial,

emblematic part of the family mood of the squad.

When Messi did

join the Argentina squad that Scaloni had built,

the younger players who were a little bit in awe of minutes

and said, Would it be all right

to just knock on his bedroom door and say, Do you want a drink from that?

And play through cool?

And that's how the ice was broken.

And there are moments like that for the players,

only for the players there is where the the magic begin.

We always said we know the most talented national team we've got.

We were watching different nations.

They had better players and better squad than us.

But the togetherness that we had, no one had.

So Argentina expects Australia dreams.

So the business end.

Of the tournament.

And it's different competition.

The stakes are much higher, the jeopardy is much greater.

The pressure builds, but that's when the great players come to the fore.

That's when you find out who's world class, who's going to stand up.

And try to.

Was one of those games like bit similar

like with Saudi Arabia we know that we are better than them.

We have better. Players.

But be careful because they don't have nothing

to lose.

That kind of stuff.

Say it has to be.

Just what his country needed in.

And the two time winners are into the quarter finals.

In a country with 140% inflation a year,

we bring 70,000 people to Qatar.

I don't know how, but everybody gets to the World Cups.

I know

people, mortgage houses, sell

assets, get loans,

all sorts of things to be

there.

Generally speaking, in Argentina, there is a climate of hardship, hyperinflation.

There is economic instability.

Just before the World Cup kicked off, my brother and his mates

did this kind of ad hoc poll asking random people in the street

what would they prefer, economic stability or winning the World Cup?

Some people were saying, well, economic stability, how long does that last?

But the World Cup is forever.

I see this with this team.

We were all together

with the same energy

and we won something altogether.

We don't expect football to change anything

about the reality,

but we all won just this little bit of joy

for a bit.

For the Global South, this was the First World Cup ever to take place in summer.

So the mood of a squad in Qatar and the people in Argentina

was completely in sync throughout the whole tournament.

And that's a really odd thing to have happened, but it genuinely

did happen.

The sense of belonging with our shirt is very important

and that relationship was repair from all those years of sadness.

Losing Copa America finals message is done and dusted,

putting the past messy on the team and Colonia on the fans filled up.

I think we kind of really the right

time.

The country, the fans, the players went on this emotional journey

and against the Netherlands, which is a quarter finals.

It was a huge release of pent up

anxiety, hope, dreams.

They've got this history of the Netherlands going back to the 74

lock up, where the Dutch beat them and really humiliate them in 74, 78.

That final is a period when the Dutch are left on the pitch alone.

So we've got the whole stadium going out them just to intimidate them.

And that's the language all the way through.

You've got the brilliant final in 98 when those two red cards and then in 2014

when van final as coach had the young man, Mark Messi and Mark Maxim at the game.

So yeah, there was

a lot of reasons for Argentina to particularly want to win that game.

It to make light of that they preferred

muted in that important way of what I can check now for you correctly.

The Dutch say things they provoked why guys say that they were confident

to go in penalties underestimating Emiliano

and say the worst thing you can say

Julio is when Argentina defends they defend with ten players.

Argentina is a country that loves the finest like that.

I can guess I've worked up about two fields of bunker, as I recall it.

The inner fury and the Easter.

They fired me up.

Certainly did. Even to Messi as well.

And I thought, God, I knew he and that got out of you.

It's a swan song cos I could go on almost Argentina.

And Leo answer on the pitch. This

will be top of the shoulders.

The poppy on his face.

But he goes to the minor.

Think you saw in the quarterfinal

the difference between the message and trying to until and 14 in 2014

you could knock him out of the game because he played a much more sex role.

By 2022.

He was barely involved.

He was this sort of straight existing on the periphery.

You can mark a man, you can't mark a ghost.

It's just

it just

is it written in the stars?

He celebrates a goal with this gesture, which is a very symbolic

goal, celebration.

He played the is to Van Gaal.

You know.

I can't hear you. What were you saying?

Say it again.

In Argentina, you recognize it as being first manifested by a riquelme.

Is an edge to Messi.

Leo speaks to become a lot and again

it still failed badly treated by Louis van Gaal in Istanbul Barcelona.

That was not forgotten.

All that is playing in the mind of Leo Messi, it just kind of.

Grew the whole net of footballing references

that were being suddenly evoked on that one game.

It looked like it was going to be a mundane kind of two nil victory.

And then in the last few minutes it just turned.

That's a good ball in very, very good hand.

And the getting back in it, they panicked a little bit.

Argentina do or die now for the Netherlands

it all comes down to this.

The last free kick.

I was next to Ferdinand.

I was so nervous because last free kick, you know, let's not consider

and I will never forget Ferdinand.

So in the free kick he scores in his place is going.

To be, you know, takes him. And

now when I got sober.

I couldn't believe. It.

But I'm sorry. I didn't know what to do.

I just went to the toilet.

And then it got really intense.

It there was so much aggression out there.

And it was kicking the ball

to the bench of Holland.

When he went.

This has got to be the genuine name, I think.

And, you know, looks and people could hear that and then I got injured but

better rankled that was enough when they were in Brazil real.

So what are the odds then it happened anyway.

I guess we're not going to do it again, but.

I think we like a bit of that song

as it doesn't go too far, which I don't think it did.

It goes to penalties.

And obviously,

you know, the Argentinian goalkeeper is quite a character

and one you absolutely want on your side when you're in a penalty shootout.

That's for sure. Yeah.

We had Emiliano, which is our ace, and

he's.

Very difficult to explain what the people feel with him.

You know.

Goalkeepers, they have their own personality.

The difference with the rest, you learn straight in

Stoke on a Wednesday night, like they say in England.

Because it's true, Emiliano wasn't alone everywhere and he became an icon.

He couldn't take the pressure and enjoyed it.

That's an he's a decent goalkeeper.

Well do you having goosebumps?

For me?

That was a brilliant moment.

And yeah, it was, it was his moment.

He was all about him.

Listen, Arabs and Argentina are in this

any finals?

No, I dead on the floor that

someone had me on and said, Oh, come alleviate Stanek and you saved us again.

And then when I look, obviously I notice that and I always have a my my heart.

For people that we know messy from long time

we all know that he's the leader of course that then

because he's a bit quiet

people saying no, he's

not properly but not the wrong.

And I think messy in that World Cup

especially he was more than that

but we haven't seen

before for Messi is those kind of

maybe reactions on the pitch

he was always a bit angry.

Messi was showing signs of being quite

confrontational.

There's a lot of this people talking.

He goes and talks to Van Gaal and David's saying, we'd be talking.

You've been talking too much. You've been talking too much.

It's like I'm looking at him and I know that people cos it was like.

Wow, well you know.

Hey listen men

are not okay and I know my noise

etiology so I have to leave the facility.

I'm in there.

And you can't stay on the level that long

that Leo has without being incredibly competitive.

He's a winner.

He's a winner. I

and then in the tunnel on the way to the changing rooms

where he's doing his Argentinian TV post-match,

the number nine team as he calls and walks by and Messi interrupts

the live bit to say and that Bashar whoa, whoa.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

You go where you fall, you know.

Now, Bashar will be silly. Go away, bobble.

I know that was our and that was a thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you. Hello, Rosario boys style.

Within hours they were T-shirt mugs, fridge magnets.

How much? How well you went. Okay.

That's what it looked like in the Liberty Alien on Nathaniel

Latitude shows and Show Me.

And then they Manolo.

And suddenly everyone among the press there were texting and writing

has Messi been taken over by the spirit of Maradona last?

Finally, Maradona speaks through Messi and I

my epiphany was thinking, Oh, Maradona would have invented

especially obscene and offensive insult specifically for the number 19.

It's very mild, Baba.

It's the kind of thing someone's grandmother might say.

But for Argentina, that was a sign.

That thing that was missing, why they couldn't

fully fall in love with Blessed by that, it was like, yeah,

he's one of ours.

We are more aggressive

probably than the team that he had before in the national team.

So he probably becoming a little bit like us, you know,

that bad boy.

By the time

the Qatar World Cup kicked off, she was incredibly comfortable being Messi

for many years.

There was enormous pressure on him to perform or be or behave

to the expectations of some nebulous demand to be more Argentinian,

to be more passionate, to be more like Maradona.

But he broke free.

Whether it's Maradona dying or him being able to leave Barcelona

and see that the world didn't stop, some things shifted that liberated him.

You can be the best player in the world, but unless you link somehow to your kid

to the dreams that he had, it just doesn't fully work.

And what Messi has managed to do is to reconnect

with that guy that had a dream.

That was a long time ago.

He said it, I want to win the World Cup.

That's the message that we saw in Qatar to

the world.

He must have realized that the clock's ticking.

He must have known that actually, reality is I've got to do it.

And and that was the thing about about watching Messi

in this World Cup every game.

I saw him he singing this last time I see him

in football in this thing that we've invested

so much time, so much emotional energy, so much intellectually energy in following.

He's the best we've seen this thing you've cared about for so long.

And to know that that might the end

and this might be the last time you see him

see if that for for me,

for the fans for journalists that was a huge thing.

So what it must be for him, I think it's almost unimaginable.

Leo for a while now is understood, but he's a play of moments of the best

moments in the welcome were the ones in which he was involved

Messi.

The others got back at him

to be able to stay with him

no messing gets through.

And Argentina

Alvarez

has got his second man by the master.

He knows he's not going to be good on pace, but how can he?

Well, by just creating too many battles on the way

to the last pass.

Genius.

And it will be Argentina to return here

on Sunday in a bid to be crowned world champions.

South Africa.

India can hear an ad is from animal.

The competition is getting louder

but open the US if I die regulator

I know as one more proposal will compromise on winner selection.

No, I told you in my talk and I don't think it

verboten it.

Loads me the way I see tonight all the time,

and we'll know

it here in the Kremlin at La Copa.

Get us here.

They get massive shadows. I don't know of that.

I think they might have got to know. Yeah, it does.

Yes. So but I mean, I don't think it will get a go by Luna.

He's not the devils. I got another. Yes, nowadays. You mean the.

Put a moment, though, Felicia bank run negative in the show

she's doing what.

Carlos and DeRozan did on that,

so the damn ball got in your

hands.

Katropa, for example, the principal of any.

You're collapsing there.

No, but oh whatever it was at all.

That's just not letting them record.

Yeah.

I mean, anything was like magic. A

the work of football.

He's a so big passion

since I was a child and to have the opportunity

to be next to him in that special moment

before the final of a workout go.

I just want to say to him that it was enough.

It's going to be

an amazing story without winning, too.

He already did something for our country.

So powerful.

So powerful.

He's like an example for all the tiles in Argentina.

It's wonderful to see that career panned out over two decades.

So wonderful to the point I think that most of the world

wanted Messi to win the World Cup.

It wasn't Argentina favorites.

It was just Messi.

We want Messi to win it.

We all knew that's the World Cup for Messi.

It's destiny.

There's only one more step to make the dream a reality.

And Messi found the perfect mental state

to win the World Cup.

Many player said before the World Cup,

we want to win it because of him.

First of these olympiastadion like significa.

But I go there when I knew when.

I went into the game super confident, you know, we were dancing

and singing on the on the bus on the way to the stadium.

The moment of finale.

One of their former mentor knew Olé, when you go is woman dog.

But I'm a ball girl, but I

yeah.

I think women's national football

games can become much more about one individual against another individual.

And so obviously this was Mbappé,

the salsa, the apprentice and

and that's exactly what we go.

And the beauty of it all is that there are many stories that could be told, but.

We don't know which one will be written.

And what a game.

Because, you know, it's it's the greatest World Cup finals ever.

Be the best game I've ever seen.

Greatest international game.

I think of witness in. A football game.

You talk about drama, action, motion.

He was everything that you could expect for a football game.

How does it work?

By a massive margin.

The better side in the first.

Down goes to penalty.

Argentina, he scores.

Argentina all over them all over the pitch

totally one sided.

Messi turns it up to Alvarez who gets it through.

And that's McAllister looking at DeMar Maria.

And you thought that was it.

And then 10 minutes to go, breakaway penalty.

It all changed after Messi has given the ball away.

As he's been robbed.

By Koeman

before.

He. Gets the return.

Johnny, you're thinking

then Messi has blown his own World Cup final to you.

But again, you could see

the players faces and.

You know, they don't say it like that. Yes.

How you forget the finale. I agree.

He did not.

I mean, nobody there.

But I know it all goes in the locker

room with Tomas.

And then the extra time, I think, was the best extra time I've ever seen.

It was just it was just madness.

As Messi missing.

What's it again? The reason the way

when the referee has pointed to the vandalism go.

And then you thought that must be it.

Now there is another change here, a penalty.

More time to comment.

Another of

and as the fan

magic in the biggest game of all.

And then even after that

it could have been one it was like one in front on the one is in.

Martinez with the same oh my God, he was free.

And that's a good one.

And they went straight down the other end the.

Way they go again.

Martinez waits in the middle

and had to be.

It was one of the most exciting, thrilling, tremendous games

I've ever seen.

And there's more to come

because it's the 22nd World Cup final has gone to penalties.

In many ways.

The most impressive thing about Argentina at the World Cup

was they had the mental resilience to keep coming back.

So they did it in the quarter final and the same thing in the final twice

it was the famous

offensive line after 90 minutes, 466 final.

Everybody wants to go there, win it again.

Well, this was you've won it twice. Got it.

They won it again.

When you come down to penalties, we had Emiliano

martinez, who

he scored that killed

in the penalty shoot out.

You know, he stuck an arm wrestling.

Emiliano We put the team ahead,

so the pressure was on them all the time.

The first one, I didn't do anything.

No, nothing. Just good luck. And that's it.

But they will go first for France

and in fact, they will score for France three times.

On the spot.

Whatever you can do, I will endeavor to do as well as Lionel

Messi's message.

I mean, you will see it in.

Well, that's stylish.

That's incredible.

But this time, this occasion.

The next one is he's the one, you know.

So on tonight is

the first chance over Argentina.

I think that he enjoyed penalties, such an exchange personality

that he says like here I am now it's my moment, penalties,

my time.

The third one is the pressure.

Then that's the one they need to

I need to do something, you know.

Martinez just throwing the ball away.

He's done that before.

This is all part of his penalty routine.

Make the work unbelievable.

Won't

people say, oh, do you practice?

I dance?

No, I've never done it the way I done.

After the second penalty, miss.

Never in my life.

You know, that's.

That's me.

Sometimes I'm a child on the pitch.

I don't see what's going to happen next.

You know.

He became like a specialist penalty saver, like he did against Holland.

He saved the first once against the French.

And that put the pressure on the French.

They miss.

We score, they miss.

We score.

And he came down to Gonzalo Montiel, you know, to deliver that last kick.

This for the

World. Cup.

It's Argentina.

Tell you I'm in the delivery, I'm a sale.

I mean, my need of quality. We got me what they need got.

We had a choice out of that area.

But I mean, forget it because they look at us

and they run to our location.

I tried a little bit.

It was much

I never thought about live in a moment like this.

I was only one year old

when Argentina won in 86 at the age 38.

I can see that I saw Argentina win the World Cup.

In the streets, in the homes, in the hearts.

It was absolutely fantastic.

I don't know in this moment, you know, you know, there is a moment

and I say that Diego bilateral look, you know, they must see this year

because I think it was on because I only see the gusano

and the guys that,

you know.

We were waiting this moment that Messi set that trophy in his hands hands.

Because

the old media.

Let me talk

rid of their guys

out there.

They play with. You.

I got

I think feel I got I think I feel.

That if I do

I feel that I've got a good.

I we would talk to each other.

Drinking matches, drinking champagne, singing all the way to Argentina.

Yeah, I'm

never invited.

And when I write about.

It, which is happiness, you know, and everyone enjoyed it.

I, I, I could not

have.

5 million people fill the streets

of Windsor.

The Argentinian society became divided.

You know,

and I think this World Cup kind of brought everybody together.

Because of the happiness.

Everybody was happy.

Everybody.

When the thing that happened in your life, in your country,

with one in my country with a woke up, everyone is happy.

It's like that. It's what.

You see.

And in front and you see light and, you know, white and blue and

and you can see people in top of the trees, which is lovely.

You know, we are crazy about football.

So imagine a celebration like that in

when a side is is in real chaos.

See around us and very loud

you know like you want to have this is facade.

Yeah I can't there will be a little guy will go well then there is a 1 million.

That's why I'm holding everybody.

Argentina's never had a moment like that.

So pathetic because these are secret dinner.

We just used the British something subjugated.

No, no,

no, no, no, no, no.

But instead of money, $1 manana been $10

J always wake up and then one day know would I get better sick of it.

Okay, I've got to be tolerant of almost.

Have you changed by me to chat this year?

No, no, no.

Lucy and deep inside a no, no. I guess that secondary.

The third star is there.

These slots are part of history.

This bunch led by messy.

They are so different and influential

of the way Argentina plays international football.

That group of player, that group of people, they all special.

It's not just about winning the World Cup is what we done in the process.

You know,

beating the champions in the Copa America after 28 years,

beating the champions of Europe at Wembley in a good style of football

and beating the World Cup champions in Qatar.

After losing the first game, it will be down to one of the best World Cups ever

this month.

To think that I'm a World Cup champion, that I won the World

Cup alongside Messi.

The light shone on him

just before me.

Whatever happened in that final or even in the tournament?

For me, Messi's now indisputable.

Messi's legacy would be to be as big as Maradona

in the pantheon of the football gods.

He has to be of the number one, and then the rest is won.

Absolutely everything now in the game.

Messi, that's what so much for 15 years nobody that well.

Ever has done that.

You get to your fifth World Cup and finally, after all the misfortune,

all the pratfalls, everything has gone wrong.

Finally you win. It is perfect and

there's nobody that

compares with Lionel Messi.