Messi lays hands on world cup, wins golden ball
Argentina has emerged as World champions after setting aside the stiff opposition posed by the French in Sunday’s finals played at Lusail Stadium.
Messi receives the World Cup dressed as a Qatari during the closing ceremonies.
Ecstatic Lionel Messi, team mates celebrate with the World Cup
Fireworks as Argentina are declared winners of the World Cup at the Lusail Stadium. France had come to the competition as the defending champions and one of the top nations favoured to lift the cup.
Three goals off the boot of dazzling Mbappe who won the Golden Boot could not stop the Argentines – history makers – from winning after extra time.
Despite stretching the Argentines in all departments, France motivated by Mbappe tested defeat after 120 minutes of superb play.
Argentina scrapped through via penalty kicks on a day luck stood watch over them, but in defeat, the French were tactically not disgraced
Lionel Messi, seven-time winner of the Balon d” Ors after several disappointing runs finally lays his hands on the gold cup.
He kissed the Cup at least twice before lifting it up.
Argentine fans crowded the stadium to lend support to their national teamAnalysts say the Argentine win was more for Messi, and less for a country that’s football crazy.
Lionel Messi decorated with a gold medal just before he received the World Cup.Messi has played in 26 World Cup games and transformed into one of the greatest players of all time. But he has never won a world cup until he led his ‘all-white-team’ to Qatar.
In the absence of injured Benzema, Mbappe, obviously a star of the future who turns 24 years old soon took France to great heights all through the competition, scoring eight fantastic goals against Messi’s seven and winning the golden boot.
Nobody is sure what President Emmanuel Macron whIspered to Mbappe as the footballer stepped upstage to pick his silver medal.