Lionel Messi: one step from football immortality

The Athletic FC Podcast

The Athletic

Football, Soccer,, Sports, Soccer

4 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Adam Leventhal is joined by Oli Kay and Argentinian journalist Martin Mazur to discuss Lionel Messi as he looks to crown his career with a World Cup winners' medal on Sunday. Having taken Argentina to the final in 2014 as his country's talisman, now at 35, in his last World Cup Sunday offers his final chance for World Cup glory. The panel analyse his tournament so far as well as his role within the Argentine side, plus Jay DeMerit, Adrian Mariappa and Leon Balogun share their experiences of playing against Messi while former PSG head coach Mauricio Pochettino tells The Athletic what it's like to coach Messi. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The athletic.
0:05.0	The biggest sporting fixture on the planet is edging ever closer.
0:09.0	Yesterday we focused on France and Killion and Bape.
0:12.0	Today we give our full and undivided attention to Argentina
0:15.8	and let's be brutally honest the main man.
0:18.4	Leonel Messie who has been the standout performer of this World Cup and is one step closer to perhaps cementing his
0:24.4	place as the greatest player of all time. I'm Adam Leventhal. Welcome to the
0:29.4	Athletic Football Podcast. Little messy. Messies he! Oh!
0:43.0	That's what they came for!
0:49.0	The Magic Man! One more messy moment!
0:58.0	And Argentina are alive!
1:02.0	The Callister,
1:05.0	Messy!
1:06.0	The only
1:08.0	and Nell Messy Meernol messy reaches out for more history as Argentina reach out for the World Cup
1:20.6	semi-finals he has a dream to pull still. They have a dream to pull
1:26.9	Phil. He doesn't miss this line.
1:30.8	Lift off in Lucille.
1:35.0	So early.
1:37.0	So early. So earlier on in this World Cup we did an episode entitled the cult of
1:48.9	messy which was looking at almost the the god-like status that he has and it's afforded by the fans, the media,
1:57.6	fans in particular.
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