The title of world football champion won by Argentina in Qatar on Sunday belongs “also to Diego” Maradona, Lionel Messi wrote on Tuesday, convinced that he supported the selection “from heaven”.
“It is also from Diego who has encouraged us from heaven. And from all those who have always spent their time supporting the national team without looking so much at the result, but at the will that we have always put into it even if things didn’t go well.” . as we wanted”he emphasized in a text on social networks.
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Maradona was the great worker in winning the 1986 World Cup, in Mexico, in the second title his country won after 1978, secured at home, in Buenos Aires.
Lionel Messi was considered the best player of the tournament who secured the ‘Albiceleste’ in the final against France and triumphed 4-2 in the shoot-out on penalties, after the 2-2 in regular time and the 3-3 to the end of the extension.
The 35-year-old athlete recalled that “almost 30 years have passed” since Grandoli, where he started playing football, until he fulfilled his dream of becoming world champion, three decades in which the ball brought him “a lot of joy and some sadness”. .
“I’ve always dreamed of becoming world champion and I didn’t want to stop trying even though I knew it might never happen”took over the captaincy of Argentina.
Messi, who joined his teammates in the open-top double-decker bus that travels the main arteries of Buenos Aires to celebrate with the fans, also dedicated the success to “all those who have not won the title in previous World Cups, like in Brazil in 2014, which everyone deserved for the way they fought to the final, worked hard and wanted it as much as he did.
The striker praised the “wonderful” group that was successful in Qatar, as well as the technical team led by Lionel Scaloni and all the “anonymous” people who worked hard to make everything work well in the Middle East.
“Often failure is part of the journey and part of learning and without disappointments it is impossible to achieve success. Thank you very much. Let’s go Argentina!”he concluded.
In the Instagram post, which has already passed 11 million likes and 178,000 comments, Messi shows a video that recalls different moments in his career, from childhood to winning the national team title, the only major trophy missing in his career.
Source: DN
