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How is the new shield of Argentina after being world champion

Lionel Messi Now he sits at the table of the world champions with Pelé and Diego Maradona: the ’10’ guided Argentina to the conquest of their third world title this Sunday in Doha, where they defeated France on penalties (4-2, after a 3-3 draw) in a legendary final.

At the age of 35, the Argentine star can say goodbye to his World Cup journeys in peace (he has participated in the last five): he scored the first, from a penalty (23), and the third (in extra time, 109) at the Lusail stadium and participated in the second, by Ángel Di María (36).

Although the crown breaks with an albiceleste drought of 36 years without lifting the World Cup, before they did it with Mario Kempes in 1978 and Diego Maradona in 1986, the conquest has as a special protagonist a guy who saw how Germany snatched it from the noses in Brazil-2014.

How is the new shield of the Argentine team?

The official channels of the Argentine team took advantage of the moment to show the fans what the new shield they will use from now on will be like.

With Di María and Messi as the only survivors of the debacle at the Maracana, the group formed by Lionel Scaloni knew how to close ranks around what millions consider the best player in history, a title resisted by many precisely because he did not have in his hands what which he raised this Sunday before 88,966 spectators.

And he did it against the defending champion of one of his potential heirs and PSG teammate, Kylian Mbappé, who took the game to penalties by scoring a hat-trick (80, 81 and 118, two of them from penalties) and finishing as tournament scorer, with eight goals. “We are world champions!” shouted ‘Leo’, considered the best player of the tournament, from the microphones of the majestic stadium.

Lionel Messi wants to continue playing in the Argentine national team

Soccer star Lionel Messi, 35, assured that he still wants to play a few more games with the Argentine team, after winning the World Cup against France this Sunday in Qatar-2022.

“What is going to happen after this?” Messi asked himself when declaring before Argentine television in the mixed zone. “Obviously I wanted to close my career with this, I can’t ask for anything anymore,” he said. In addition, he highlighted how much he fought in his career and that the Cup “was given to me almost at the end”, in his fifth World Cup.

“But on the other hand, I love football, I love what I do, I enjoy it and I enjoy being in the national team, being with this group. And obviously I want to continue living a few more games being world champion ”, asserted the also PSG player.

Source: Elcomercio

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