{"id":12913,"date":"2022-12-15T10:21:59","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T10:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/?p=12913"},"modified":"2022-12-15T10:21:59","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T10:21:59","slug":"lionel-messi-confirms-world-cup-final-will-be-his-last-game-for-argentina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/lionel-messi-confirms-world-cup-final-will-be-his-last-game-for-argentina\/","title":{"rendered":"Messi Confirms World Cup Final Will Be His Last Game For Argentina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/lionel-messi.jpg\" alt=\"Lionel Messi\" title=\"Lionel Messi Confirms World Cup Final Will Be His Last Game For Argentina\" width=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1629\" \/><strong>Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lionel Messi has confirmed his last game will be at the World Cup final<\/li>\n<li>Argentina will take on France on Dec 18 in the World Cup final<\/li>\n<li>France beat Morocco 2-0 in their semi-final match<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/sports-betting\/football\">Football<\/a> fans knew deep down that this would be the last time they get to see <strong>Lionel Messi<\/strong> and <strong>Cristiano Ronaldo<\/strong> in a World Cup. Portugal lost their quarter-final but Cristiano Ronaldo is yet to confirm if he will continue to play for Portugal. <\/p>\n<p>Lionel Messi has confirmed that his final game for Argentina will be at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/betting-opportunity\/fifa-world-cup-2022-preview\">2022 FIFA World Cup final<\/a>!<\/p>\n<h2>Messi Will Play Final Game Against France <\/h2>\n<p>Lionel Messi is the captain of Argentina and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/lionel-messi-wins-controversial-seventh-ballon-dor-award\/\">a seven-time Ballon d&#8217;Or winner<\/a> who is widely considered to be one of the greatest players to have ever played the game. Messi\u2019s childhood dream is to win the World Cup and Argentina are now just one game away from fulfilling Messi\u2019s dream after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/argentina-thrash-croatia-to-reach-their-sixth-fifa-world-cup-final\/\">thrashing Croatia<\/a> on Tuesday for the first semi final.<\/p>\n<p>Messi told reporters in Qatar that he is very happy to finish his journey at a World Cup final, representing Argentina. Leo Messi went on to say that it has been a very emotional World Cup for him, especially to see how much football fans in Argentina have enjoyed the journey to get to a World Cup final.<\/p>\n<p>The 35 year old Messi said given the fact that the next World Cup is in 2026, it will be difficult for him to continue and its best for him to finish his career on the grandest stage of them all!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Argentina have made it to 5 World Cup finals and have won just 2 World Cups.<\/strong> Messi has his fingers crossed that their sixth World Cup appearance will finish with them lifting their 3rd World Cup.<\/p>\n<h2>France Stands In Argentina\u2019s Way<\/h2>\n<p>France had a tough game against Morocco in the second semi-final but prevailed 2-0. The defending champions will now take on Argentina at the Lusail Stadium in Doha on Dec 18. France have also won two World Cup\u2019s but the big difference is France have only made it to the World Cup finals on two occasions and they have won both finals in 1998 and 2018.<\/p>\n<p>France will depend heavily on <strong>Kylian Mbappe<\/strong> who plays alongside Leo Messi at Paris St Germain. Mbappe and Messi are currently tied at 5 goals each on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/betting-opportunity\/fifa-world-cup-2022-preview#qatar2022_goldenboot\">list of leading goal scorers in Qatar<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary Lionel Messi has confirmed his last game will be at the World Cup final Argentina will take on France on Dec 18 in the World Cup final France beat Morocco 2-0 in their semi-final match Football fans knew deep down that this would be the last time they get to see Lionel Messi and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - 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