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Argentina has won the 2022 FIFA World Cup, beating defending champion France. Find retired much astir the stunning decision by Lionel Messi's team.
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At last, Argentina's Lionel Messi is simply a World Cup champion.
The 2022 FIFA World Cup successful Qatar came to a adjacent Dec. 18 successful a nail-biter showdown betwixt reigning champs France and La Albiceleste—each looking to unafraid their 3rd cupful World Cup Win—with the second coming retired connected top. Argentina won with a people of 4-2 successful a punishment shootout aft Messi scored doubly successful a 3-3 tie.
Messi, 35, has present cemented his archetypal World Cup victory in a record 26th lucifer and fifth tourney overall.
The final besides saw rising superstar Kylian Mbappe, seeking a 2nd World Cup triumph connected behalf of France astatine conscionable 23 years old, finish with 3 goals. He besides emerged arsenic the apical scorer of the tournament with 8 goals total.
Messi has signaled that the 2022 World Cup volition apt beryllium his last.
"There's a batch of years until the adjacent 1 and I don't deliberation I person it successful maine and finishing similar this is best," he told Argentina's Televisión Pública Dec. 14 aft his team's 3-0 triumph implicit Croatia, the third-place winner.
He continued, "[I feel] a batch of happiness to beryllium capable to execute this. To decorativeness my World Cup vocation playing my past crippled successful a final. Everything I've lived successful this World Cup, what radical experienced and however overmuch the radical backmost successful Argentina are enjoying it each is precise emotional."
Argentina's World Cup win marks the team's first such rubric successful 36 years and 3rd overall. Soccer legend Diego Maradona, who died successful 2020, past led the country's nationalist squad to victory successful 1986, marking their second triumph following their archetypal World Cup triumph in 1978.
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All implicit the world, eyes were connected shot during the astir monthlong tournament, during which Morocco go the archetypal African federation to onshore a spot successful the last four.
It was besides afloat of shocking upsets arsenic some Neymar-led Brazil and Cristiano Ronaldo's Portugal exited during the semifinals—with each perchance playing their past World Cup matches connected behalf of their countries.
And for Ronaldo, this World Cup was afloat of contention—he exited his Premier League squad Manchester United—as helium was dropped from Portugal's starting lineup for its Dec. 6 lucifer against Switzerland. While his replacement Goncalo Ramos scored a chapeau instrumentality successful their 6-1 victory, their travel ended conscionable a crippled aboriginal arsenic they fell 1-0 to Morocco successful the quarterfinals.
However, the 2022 World Cup besides saw the tragic nonaccomplishment of Grant Wahl, the preeminent shot writer successful the U.S., who died aft suffering a ruptured aortic aneurysm portion successful Qatar. He was 49.
Following his death, his woman Dr. Celine Gounder penned a message to supporters connected Wahl's Substack, expressing gratitude astatine the notes of enactment from each implicit the globe—as everyone from fans to players to teams paid their respects to the precocious journalist.
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