Argentine megastar Lionel Messi has said the 2022 World Cup in Qatar coming month will be the last of his career.
“It’s my last World Cup, surely. I feel good physically, I was suitable to do a veritably good pre-season this time, which I could n’t do last time. It was essential to get to where I am, with a good state of mind and a lot of stopgaps,” he said in an interview with ESPN Argentina on Thursday.
Appertained to as one of the topmost football players of all time, the 35- time-old footballer has won every major jewel other than the World Cup. “There’s anxiety, jitters about the World Cup,” he said. “We ca n’t stay for it to start,” said Messi who’ll be featuring in his fifth mega event. He made his transnational debut in 2005 and is the country’s all- time record goalscorer with 90 pretensions.
Argentina side, under the operation of Lionel Scaloni, will be one of the favourites in the event, as it has now gone 35 games without defeat.
Since Messi’s debut, the closest Argentina came to winning the World Cup was in 2014 when the platoon lost 1- 0 to Germany in the final, courtesy a cessation time thing by Mario Götze. In the 2018 event, Argentina was knocked out of the round of 16 after a 4- 3 defeat at the hands of France.
