President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) used his social media to congratulate Argentina on winning the World Cup. The game against France ended 3-3, but the South American team took the title on penalties.
“Happy with the victory of the Argentine neighbors. Great game by Messi, who deserved a lot, and Di María. Congratulations players, Argentina’s technical commission and my friend Alberto Fernández”, wrote Lula.
It was a decision that Argentina, playing champagne football, became the first South American country to win the tournament since Brazil in 2002.
In his last World Cup game, in the biggest make-or-break of his career, Messi’s memory may have gone far. Perhaps in 2004, when the AFA (Argentine Football Association) hastily set up an under-20 friendly against Paraguay just for him to play and thus annul the possibility of defending Spain, where he had lived since he was 13.
Messi certainly imagined the injustice of it all and feared the disappointment in his goodbye. But it only served for him, one of the greatest players in history, to score a goal from the center forward, pushing the ball beyond the line after Lloris’s rebound.
Lionel Messi waited 16 years and four World Cups for the moment of his final consecration. When the Pole blew the whistle for the last time, he was sure it was all worth it.
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