“The cup that was missing: double penalty and tears of the champion”, the Argentine press celebrates the conquest of the 2022 World Cup by Lionel Messi

“We are world champions”, the titular giant took the cover of the sports Olé and was replicated by the media in Argentina and the world that paid homage to the genius Lionel Messi, leader of an Albiceleste team that won its third crown on penalties against France world.

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The photo of Messi with the Cup and an Argentine squad, led by Lionel Scaloni, overflowing with joy at the festivities, monopolized the portals and social networks that throbbed an “epic final”, the most repeated definition to describe the 3-3 in the 120 minutes of play and the definition by penalties that closed Qatar-2022.

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“Eternal glory, Messi”, the headline of a column in olé summed up the feeling of the football world, which waited for almost two decades for the coronation in a ’10’ World Cup.

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Hug, shout it out, cry it out. We are world champions in the most exciting final in history. In the final that no one can imagine. We are world champions despite Mbappé. We are world champions and there will be time to analyze whether we had to suffer so much. What does it matter now? What difference does it make! There is the huge Dibu Martinez, there is the song of everyone with everyone, the hugs among millions of Argentines. From Qatar to La Quiaca. From north to south and from east to west of the planet. Because If everyone wanted Messi to win, he did. If everyone dreamed that this final was the chance to get out of 36 years of waiting, it was done. We are world champions because we played the final better. Even with the risk of losing it,” he added. hey.

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Messi and “the cup he was missing: double penalty and champion’s tears”, he highlighted TyC Sports from Argentina. Marca de España went further and summed up: “Leo, you already have your World Cup: you deserve it.

Argentina “touches the sky”, were the words chosen by The nation to complete the holder to the champion.

“It is written again: Argentina world champion. One more time? Come on: Argentina world champion. It cost so much that it should be written several times to make it seem what it is. A fact of reality, pure and hard. It was necessary to go through the best final in the history of the World Cups for Lionel Messi’s band to be crowned in Qatar. The team played their best football of the entire Cup and it looked like they were going to enjoy a win, but nothing is easy at this point. They had to endure the onslaught of France, a (former) world champion who was not going to relinquish the crown from him as meekly as it seemed in the first 70 minutes. And we had to accept going to penalties, when it seemed that Messi’s goal in extra time was going to be the last of the night. But not. To win you have to know how to suffer. And now enjoy”, highlights the Buenos Aires newspaper.

“Unforgettable final”, “delirium”, “ecstasy”, “the best final of all time”, the adjectives used over and over again by journalists who told the world how Argentina repeated the world triumph that it achieved for the first time in its home in 1978 and repeated in 1986 at the hands of ‘D10S’, the late Diego Maradona.

The “happiness of a country” summarizes Clarion the feeling of 47 million Argentines who shouted Messi’s double and Di María’s goal, suffered with the Frenchman Mbappé’s hat-trick and raved over goalkeeper ‘Dibu’ Fernández’s saves during the game and in the penalty shootout.

“I had to suffer Messi. she had to suffer Argentina. But the suffering is over. It’s over. The fucking mother. Argentina is world champion. Yes, it’s not a dream. Messi is world champion. And it is justice. In Qatar. In a magical and exotic World Cup that left a magical and exotic final. Because if all the suffering is left behind, it was an apotheotic final. With an Mbappé, in devil mode, author of three goals that rescued France from a beating. But Argentina has Messi, who scored two goals. And he has Dibu Martínez who reappeared in a penalty shootout. And before too. And to enjoy. Because what just happened in this Lusail is history. The staggered rule the world. And Messi… Yes, Messi. And there is no discussion anymore, he is the best of all time ”, says the medium.

“Never has a collective feeling been as strong as that of all Argentines wanting Lionel Messi to lift the World Cup with the Argentine National Team. Finally, the moment arrived and after the pass given by the FIFA president, Gianni Infantino, La Pulga sealed the consecration and unleashed the happiness of all”, he comments. Chronicle.

Even the archrival Brazil titled the victory of the Argentine ‘brothers’. or globe He greeted the coronation of his neighbors “happy” and joined the odes to Messi, “the best” who “deserved a lot” to lift the Cup. (D)