Copa America: Messi retired?!?! And, oh yeah, Chile won.

Planet Fútbol with Grant Wahl

Sports Illustrated

Sports, Sports News, News, Soccer

4.6 • 859 Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2016

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

The Copa America final has come and gone, and amazingly the big news to come out of the game has nothing to do with the team that lifted the trophy at the end of the night. Lionel Messi shocked the world first by missing his penalty kick in a shootout as Argentina lost to Chile, then again by claiming that he would retire from his national team after his fourth loss in a major tournament final. Here to break it all down the day after are SI senior writer Grant Wahl and SI.com's Brian Straus, both of whom were in the stadium as word spread of Messi's announcement. Together with host Avi Creditor, the guys talk about what impact Messi's departure will have on the Argentina national team, and whether Chile's achievement is overshadowed by the headline news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to a Copa America final edition of the Planet Football Podcast.
0:13.0	I am SI.com soccer editor,
0:14.8	Avi Crediter joined in studio today
0:17.8	by SI senior writer Grand Wall
0:19.6	and SI dot com's Brian Strauss gentleman.
0:22.1	It's great to have all of us in one room for a change.
0:24.8	It's very cozy. This is nice. It's not just the four of us though.
0:29.2	There is a lot of time. There is this lot of time poster in here but we're here to talk about the Cop America final and the ensuing fallout which is definitely overshadowed the game itself in a lot of ways.
0:39.7	Chile of course going back to back beating Argentina and penalty kicks for a second straight
0:43.8	summer but the story guys is messy and Grant he he says in his postgame
0:51.4	comments he's done he's out
0:53.9	Yeah, which we weren't expecting nobody was expecting the post game in some ways was crazier than the game itself though the game itself was quite crazy.
1:02.6	And before we go anywhere else, congratulations Chile
1:05.2	on winning your second straight Copa America.
1:07.2	Yes.
1:08.6	Very impressive performance by them
1:10.8	to get better throughout the tournament.
1:14.0	And look, in the end, I think they deserve to win.
1:18.0	So, hats off to a Chile team that not many people thought would repeat.
1:23.0	But as far as Little Messy's concerned,
1:27.0	the greatest player in the world today
1:29.0	says he's done with a national team.
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