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Kylian Mbappe Seeks To Re-Order Football’s Hierarchy In World Cup Final | Football News
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Kylian Mbappe Seeks To Re-Order Football’s Hierarchy In World Cup Final | Football News

[ad_1] Kylian Mbappe can on Sunday become the youngest player to win two World Cups since Pele achieved the feat at the age of 21. Mbappe, who turns 24 two days after the final, is the joint leading scorer with five goals at this World Cup and the face of football's new generation. The last World Cup for Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, the tournament in Qatar surely marks the passing of the baton from the two players who have dominated the sport for nearly two decades. While Messi has one final chance to claim an elusive World Cup title, Mbappe and France hope to usher in an era of dominance for a nation appearing in a fourth final in seven attempts.With a squad decimated by injuries and struggling for form in the run-up, there were genuine concerns France would suffer the same fate ...
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‘Greatest’ Lionel Messi Ready For Fitting World Cup Farewell | Football News
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‘Greatest’ Lionel Messi Ready For Fitting World Cup Farewell | Football News

[ad_1] Thirty-seven club trophies, seven Ballon D'Or awards and six European Golden Boots. A Copa America title, an Olympic gold medal and a list of scoring and statistical records that may never be beaten. Over the course of an 18-year career Lionel Messi has, with one obvious exception, won the lot. And won it again and again. On Sunday, the 35-year-old Argentina captain has the chance to fill the last remaining hole on his CV: a World Cup winners' medal. For Messi's most ardent admirers, victory over France at Doha's Lusail Stadium will settle the debate over where he ranks in the most exclusive inner sanctum of football's pantheon.Messi's career achievements to date have already earned him the right to be mentioned in the same breath as Pele, Diego Maradona, Alfredo Di Stefano and Jo...
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Lionel Messi Has Chance To Match Diego Maradona As Argentina Reach World Cup Final | Football News
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Lionel Messi Has Chance To Match Diego Maradona As Argentina Reach World Cup Final | Football News

[ad_1] Lionel Messi will get his date with World Cup destiny, and the chance to emulate Diego Maradona, after Argentina's emphatic 3-0 win over Croatia on Tuesday took them through to the final in Qatar. It is 36 years since Maradona dragged Argentina to their second and most recent World Cup triumph in Mexico, the crowning moment of his dazzling but often troubled career. Messi came to this World Cup admitting it would surely be his last at the age of 35 and therefore his final opportunity to lift the trophy that escaped him in 2014, when Argentina were defeated by Germany in Brazil.The sense that Messi was building up to this moment was apparent in his displays for Paris Saint-Germain in the months before the tournament and he has performed at this World Cup like a player with no more ...
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Lionel Messi Surpasses Diego Maradona For Massive Record At FIFA World Cup | Football News
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Lionel Messi Surpasses Diego Maradona For Massive Record At FIFA World Cup | Football News

[ad_1] Lionel Messi in action against Poland© AFPFor Lionel Messi, Argentina's last Group C is special one. The Argentine star knows that his team has to win the match in order to qualify for the Round of 16. Lionel Messi reignited Argentina's World Cup challenge with a superb goal in a 2-0 win over Mexico. Messi breathed fresh life into Argentina's campaign with his eighth World Cup goal in his fifth appearance in the finals. The 35-year-old maestro, desperate to crown his glittering career by lifting football's greatest prize, rifled home a low shot on 64 minutes to put Argentina en route to victory. Messi's goal meant he tied the late Diego Maradona on eight goals and 21 appearances at the World Cup for Argentina.After he was named in the starting line-up, Messi now has surpassed Mara...
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Argentina Hope To Bring World Cup Joy After Mourning Maradona | Football News
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Argentina Hope To Bring World Cup Joy After Mourning Maradona | Football News

[ad_1] Argentina's footballers are determined to bring back joy to the nation after a day of mourning the second anniversary of Diego Maradona's death, coach Lionel Scaloni said on Friday. Ex-players and fans at the World Cup in Qatar paid tribute to Maradona to mark the 1986 World Cup winner's death from a heart attack in 2020 at the age of 60. And after their shock 2-1 defeat to minnows Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, Argentina's players and coach have vowed to turn things around against Mexico on Saturday to keep alive their dream of lifting the World Cup for the third time."It's a very sad day for everyone. If he is watching us from heaven then tomorrow we hope to bring him joy," said Scaloni."It seems incredible that he is no longer here. It's a day for all Argentines but we hope that tomo...
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Fans At FIFA World Cup Pay Homage To Diego Maradona With Shirts And Chants | Football News
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Fans At FIFA World Cup Pay Homage To Diego Maradona With Shirts And Chants | Football News

[ad_1] Javier Maluf will quietly put on a shirt worn by Diego Maradona against England, but other fans at the World Cup have more noisy plans for Friday's second anniversary of the death of the flawed genius. Argentina's legion of supporters may also be praying to the sporting gods that the late football great can still inspire his country to victory over Mexico on Saturday to keep their hopes in Qatar alive. Maluf is like many Argentina fans who have never fully recovered from Maradona's death from a heart attack at the age of 60.The shirt that Maradona wore during a game against England at Wembley in 1980 is the prized item in Maluf's collection of 1,000 game-worn football jerseys that he estimates is worth $1 million. "I will put it on for a while as a sign of respect," he told AFP at...
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Lionel Messi Goes Past Diego Maradona’s Argentina Record With Goal vs Saudi Arabia | Football News
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Lionel Messi Goes Past Diego Maradona’s Argentina Record With Goal vs Saudi Arabia | Football News

[ad_1] Lionel Messi scored his 8th goal in FIFA World Cup history© AFPArgentine superstar Lionel Messi started his FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 campaign on the best note possible as he scored his first goal of the tournament in the opening match against Saudi Arabia itself. With this goal, Messi surpassed his idol Diego Maradona to achieve a big feat and he has now become the first Argentina player to score a goal in four different World Cups.Messi had successfully converted a penalty in the first-half to give Argentina a 1-0 lead. The Group C fixture started on the best note possible for Argentina with the superstar's strike.With this goal, Messi surpassed the likes of Gabriel Batistuta (1994, 1998 and 2002) and Diego Maradona (1982, 1986 and 1994) and he has become the first Argentine pla...
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Diego Maradona ‘Hand Of God’ Ball Fetches GBP 2 Million At Auction | Football News
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Diego Maradona ‘Hand Of God’ Ball Fetches GBP 2 Million At Auction | Football News

[ad_1] The ball that Diego Maradona handled to score his infamous "Hand of God" goal for Argentina against England in the 1986 World Cup sold at auction on Wednesday for GBP 2 million ($2.4 million). The white Adidas "Azteca" ball, which was owned by the Tunisian match referee Ali Bin Nasser, had been tipped to fetch up to GBP 3 million ($3.6 million) when it went under the hammer at UK-based Graham Budd Auctions. It comes six months after the jersey Maradona wore in the historic quarter-final in Mexico City sold at auction for nearly $9.3 million -- more than twice the value predicted by Sotheby's.The auctioned ball -- inspired by the architecture and murals of the Aztec civilisation -- was used for the full 90 minutes of the 1986 game between Argentina and England, as it occurred years...
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World Cup In The Boot Prints Of Diego Maradona And Golden Ghosts | Football News
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World Cup In The Boot Prints Of Diego Maradona And Golden Ghosts | Football News

[ad_1] In 2017, the two brightest stars in football history were united in Moscow at the draw for the following year's World Cup in Russia. Ignoring Vladimir Putin's attempt to photobomb the moment, Diego Maradona stooped to kiss a smiling Pele who held up a phone as he took a selfie of the occasion. The two men may have occasionally sniped at each other in the debate over which was the greatest of all time, but it was a happy moment that provided a reminder of the shared glory the former winners brought to the World Cup and which the World Cup bestowed on them.With Pele in a wheelchair, it also provided a reminder of the mortality of even sport's most seemingly immortal stars.Pele was the affable ambassador for a sponsor at a string of World Cups after he retired.Maradona, who didn't al...
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Lionel Messi Heads To World Cup Ready For Last Chance To Match Diego Maradona | Football News
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Lionel Messi Heads To World Cup Ready For Last Chance To Match Diego Maradona | Football News

[ad_1] Lionel Messi has been building up to this moment, aware that his fifth World Cup with Argentina almost certainly represents his last chance to get his hands on the trophy. In July he reported back a week early for pre-season training with Paris Saint-Germain and since then he has looked like a man on a mission, determined to head to Qatar in the best shape possible. After a difficult first year at PSG in which he struggled to overcome the trauma of his departure from Barcelona, Messi is now back to something like his best and has scored or assisted 26 goals in 18 games for his club this season.Meanwhile, in Argentina a nation has been holding its breath, hoping the seven-time Ballon d'Or winner does not succumb to an untimely injury.Messi first went to a World Cup as a teenager in...
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