The goal was only the third they had allowed in the tournament.
He has racked up impeccable records to his credit over more than the. Barcelona icon Lionel Messi is regarded among the greatest football stars to have stepped on the field.
Controlling the ball on the bounce with a single deft touch with his left foot after it skipped past the Brazil left back Renan Lodi, Di María then settled himself and - lifting the ball with the same foot on the rise off its next bounce - sent a shot over Brazil’s goalkeeper, Ederson, that landed softly in the back of Brazil’s net.Īs Messi and the rest of Argentina’s team raced to celebrate with Di María, the Brazilians stood, stunned. Barcelona icon Lionel Messi has beaten his arch-rival and Juventus ace Cristiano Ronaldo to be crowned the best player of the previous decade. His friend Ángel Di María delivered the prize at last, putting Argentina ahead in the 22nd minute after coolly collecting a long cross-field pass to the right wing from the deep-lying midfielder Rodrigo De Paul.
In more than a decade at the top of his sport, Messi, 34, had won nearly every soccer honor imaginable with his Spanish club team, Barcelona: every award, every accolade, every cup, championship and trophy.Īnd year after painful year, he had failed to win a thing with Argentina.
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