Messi is already Maradona. He already has the World Cup for him, what he needed to end the comparisons with Pelusa. And he did it in one of the most exciting World Cup finals on record. It had almost everything: Salinas’ failure against Italy in the United States, Casillas’ stoppage of Robben in South Africa, Eloy’s penalty failure in Mexico, the French politician on duty wanting to imitate Sandro Pertini in the Spain-82 final. … In the match, those who had to shine shone, with two goals from Messi and three from Mbappé, his successor. And drama, a lot of drama, with the albiceleste having won the final twice, which are three times with the final success in the penalty shootout. For a while the headline “Messi is already Maradona” gave way to “Maradona is still Maradona”.
But the “fúrgol” has these things, that’s why it is capable of paralyzing half the planet, of filling the emergency rooms of Argentina in the middle of the game or the maternity hospitals within nine months. And all this after the Asturian derby hours before, where a very different sport was played from the one we saw in Argentina-France. In the “furgolística” madreñina, some continue to celebrate despite being very used to always coming out victorious and the others continue to analyze the reasons why season after season there is no way to make the party red and white. So, except for the friends from El Molinón and France, all happy, even the colleagues from Qatar, who closed the whitening tournament in the best way for them, did you hear, dude?
