Messi's Last Shot At World Cup Glory
The Lead
Wondery
3.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2022
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Lionel Messi has won just about everything there is to win in soccer -- scoring titles, Champions League trophies, a Copa America championship, and a record seven Ballon d'Ors as the world's top player. But the one thing that has eluded him is the prize that matters most to him and his fellow Argentines -- the World Cup. With the tournament set to kick off on Sunday in Qatar, The Athletic's Ed Malyon, who cut his teeth as a soccer journalist in Argentina, joins us today to discuss Messi’s incredible accomplishments and high-profile failures, his complicated relationship with his home nation, and what’s at stake for him in his final World Cup.
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| 0:34.1 | 35-year-old Lionel Messi has won just about everything there is to win in soccer. |
| 0:49.1 | Messi! |
| 1:08.4 | the new champions of Europe. It's a struggle at all. They've been etching that name in since |
| 1:14.4 | Messi's second goal really. He's won scoring titles, Champions League trophies, a Copa America |
| 1:19.0 | Championship and a record at seven Ballon doors as the world's top player. |
| 1:26.9 | I would like to thank all my colleagues at Barcelona and Paris and I would especially like to thank |
| 1:33.5 | the coaching staff and my teammates at the Argentine National Team. But the one thing that has |
| 1:40.7 | eluded him is the prize that matters most to him and his fellow Argentines, the World Cup. |
| 1:48.3 | Dressed for the Argentines whose dreams of lifting a trophy right in the face of Brazil are denied |
| 1:56.4 | all the elements. The Argentine that the weight goes painfully on me. And after falling just short |
| 2:04.0 | time and time again on the international stage, some have even called into question, |
| 2:08.4 | Messi's otherwise undeniable greatness. And the fact that he hasn't been able to drag his team |
| 2:13.9 | to lift a trophy as brilliant as he is as a player. This is a massive blemish on his resume. |
| 2:20.4 | Been a fraud internationally since he started his career and we're seeing it really come to the |
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