The tears which flowed down the cheeks of Lionel Messi were some of the surely millions shed by his countrymen on the pitch and in the stands at the Estadio Monumental in Buenos Aires. With the specter of his father hovering over him, Messi described his final match as perhaps ‘the saddest day of my career.’
It was a grand occasion befitting maybe the greatest No. 10 to don the blue and white of Argentina. It was an emotional evening the other man to challenge that claim, Diego Maradona, never received.
Long after the final whistle blew on a 3-0 win over Benin,
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