📹 Vintage Messi shines in emotional Argentina farewell
Lionel Messi concluded his international career with Argentina in a 3-0 win against Benin, contributing a goal and two assists. The match served as a celebratory farewell for the 39-year-old legend, who retires with numerous titles including the 2022 World Cup.
Why it matters
This provides a retrospective on the career of one of the greatest athletes in history, documenting his final performance for his home country.
At a packed Monumental de Núñez in Buenos Aires, Lionel Andrés Messi Cuccittini bid farewell to Argentina's national team with a 3–0 win over Benin in a friendly that wrapped up the October international window on Tuesday (6).
The result certainly isn't what matters most.
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Even if it does help boost Messi's stats for the Albiceleste even further.
After all, the star in the No. 10 shirt provided the assists for Otamendi and Nico Paz's goals, as well as scoring one himself.
Those goals, incidentally, all came in the second half and, in a way, reflected Messi's more than 20 years in an Argentina shirt.
Otamendi's goal, for example—he was also bidding farewell to the Albiceleste—came from a Messi corner that the defender turned into the net. A classic, right?
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