Lionel Messi라이브 바카라 once-in-a-generation career is complete. The Argentina superstar is finally a바카라 웹사이트World Cup바카라 웹사이트champion. (More Football News)
Goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez the hero for Argentina in shootout after Mbappe라이브 바카라 third goal takes match into a tie-breaker.
Lionel Messi라이브 바카라 once-in-a-generation career is complete. The Argentina superstar is finally a바카라 웹사이트World Cup바카라 웹사이트champion. (More Football News)
Messi scored two goals and then another in a shootout as Argentina beat France 4-2 on penalties Sunday to claim a third World Cup title despite Kylian Mbappé scoring the first hat trick in a final in 56 years.
Now there라이브 바카라 no debate. Messi is definitively in the pantheon of soccer라이브 바카라 greatest-ever players, alongside Pelé — a record three-time World Cup champion from Brazil — and Diego Maradona, the late Argentina great with whom Messi was so often compared.
Messi has achieved what Maradona did in 1986, dominate a World Cup for Argentina.
Messi put Argentina ahead from the penalty spot and played a part in Angel Di Maria라이브 바카라 goal that made it 2-0 after 36 minutes.
Mbappé scored two goals in a 97-second span to take the game to extra time, and then Messi tapped in his second goal in the 109th minute. But there was still time for another penalty from Mbappé to take the thrilling game to a shootout.
Gonzalo Montiel scored the clinching penalty kick after Kingsley Coman had an attempt saved by Emi Martinez and Aurelien Tchouameni missed for France.
Europe라이브 바카라 run of four straight World Cup winners came to an end. The last South American champion was Brazil, and that was also in Asia — when Japan and South Korea hosted the tournament in 2002.
Argentina won its previous World Cup titles in 1978 and 1986. In Qatar, the country backed up its victory from last year라이브 바카라 Copa America, its first major trophy since 1993. It라이브 바카라 quite the climax to Messi라이브 바카라 international career, which might not yet be over at the age of 35 because he is playing as well as ever.
It was quite the finale, too, for a unique World Cup — the first to be played in the Middle East and the Arab world.
For FIFA and the Qatari organizers, a final between two major soccer nations and the world라이브 바카라 two best players represented a perfect way to cap a tournament laced in controversy ever since the scandal-shrouded vote in 2010 to give the event to a tiny Arab emirate.
The years-long scrutiny since has focused on the switch of dates from the traditional June-July period to November-December, strong criticism of how migrant workers have been treated, and then unease about taking soccer라이브 바카라 biggest event to a nation where homosexual acts are illegal.
On Sunday, there was one narrative at play for most people: Could Messi do it?
He could, despite the 23-year-old Mbappé — Messi라이브 바카라 teammate at Paris Saint-Germain — doing all he could to emulate Pelé by winning his first two World Cups.