Messi's Argentina win the World Cup: A destiny fulfilled

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The Athletic

Football, Soccer,, Sports, Soccer

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🗓️ 18 December 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Argentina are World Champions again. Lionel Messi has emulated Maradona in 1986. Destiny fulfilled. Debate over? Host Adam Leventhal is joined by The Athletic's Matt Slater, Adam Crafton, David Ornstein and others to reflect on arguably the greatest World Cup final of all time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Athletic. The Athletic. And the rule that you hear at the Lucille Stadium is victory for Argentina.
0:21.0	They have done it after one of the greatest World Cup finals that we have ever seen.
0:29.0	The winning penalty tucked away by Montreal and the crowd in that Argentina end
0:38.4	its hands on heads they cannot believe that they've done it they've won the World Cup for the first time since 1986. The nation has done it.
0:49.6	Leonel Nessie has done it. He's won his first World Cup, the crown in glory in this last World Cup.
1:00.0	He will lift the World Cup as the Argentine captain.
1:04.5	But what drama we saw here tonight in Qatar?
1:10.4	Argentina were cruising in the first half.
1:13.0	Messy on target,
1:15.0	Angale de Maria on target.
1:17.0	France looked dead and buried,
1:20.0	but they came to life and Killian and Bape came to life in that second half.
1:25.0	First the penalty and then a moment of absolute brilliance to level it up at 2-2.
1:33.6	Dead into extra time.
1:35.4	Leonel messy thought he'd won it,
1:38.1	but Back Henkelion and Bape, the first man
1:41.8	since Jeff Hurst in 1966 to score a hat trick in a World Cup final.
1:48.0	Three, three, then on to penalties.
1:51.0	But it was Argentina who held their nerve.
1:55.0	Emm Martinez who kept them out and Argentina have their third World Cup triumph. Glory for the Light Blue and White surrounding me here at the Lucille
2:08.5	Stadium and despair for France. They were the reigning champions, but now it is Argentina who
2:18.6	will lift the World Cup trophy and it is the Argentina fans that are bouncing now and will be
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