I want to keep experiencing more matches as world champion: Lionel Messi
Updated On: 20 December, 2022 11:11 AM IST | Doha | Ashwin Ferro
Skipper Lionel Messi keen to continue playing for Argentina after winning the World Cup title
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Lionel Messi (centre) celebrates Argentina’s World Cup win with teammates at Lusail Stadium on Sunday. Pic/Getty Images
Argentina’s Lionel Messi will be almost 40—39 to be precise—when the next World Cup comes around in USA, Canada and Mexico, but his heroics at the current edition have raised hopes that he may play that one too. He’s already the most capped World Cupper with 26 games and also the oldest player at 35 years and 177 days to score seven goals at a single World Cup.
Though Messi hasn’t said anything about his World Cup ambitions, he did confirm that he wants to play on as a world champion. “I want to keep experiencing more matches as world champion. I was lucky to win every title in my career, but somehow this one was missing. I want to take this home [to Argentina] and enjoy it with everybody else,” Messi said soon after ending Argentina’s 36-year wait for a World Cup as his team breathtakingly beat reigning champs France 4-2 via a penalty shootout at the Lusail Stadium on Sunday.
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