France 4, Argentina 3: Lionel Messi might be finished playing for Argentina | ESPN FC



Lionel Messi’s dreams of winning the 2018 World Cup with Argentina were ended after a thrilling 4-3 defeat to France in Kazan. ESPN FC’s Shaka Hislop explains why he doesn’t see the Barcelona superstar playing for his country again.

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38 comentarios en «France 4, Argentina 3: Lionel Messi might be finished playing for Argentina | ESPN FC»

  1. Argentina hire coaches like sampaoli, sabella, Tata Martino etc ppl who have coached only in less competitive leagues in South America instead of Europe. Imo they should get Mauricio pochettino or Diego simeone

  2. Argentina should have used Diego Simeone as their coach he's a great manager at Athletico plus he's Argentine
    He knows quality so i know for sure Paulo would be in all starting 11

  3. Doesn't know how to play.Argentina should go and play hadudu with abahoni and mohammadan club of Bangladesh.Shame on Argentina team! Shame! Can they qualify 2022 World Cup?Doubt!

  4. 2019 Copa America is Argentina next target, Argentina manage to score 3 goals…….. how that Messi fault when he not a defenders or goalkeeper??? They need to fix the defender n get those tactical ready for next year, maybe Diego Simeone might be the next coach who know but everyone blame on Messi etc… Messi does his part. Those of u guys call ur self Argentina support need to go, nobody care if u support Argentina or not.

  5. Not a Messi fan but had played in era of pele or maradona, his natural skills would easily put defenders out. Now it’s not that easy as football has evolved a lot.

  6. "they won by one goal" what an idiot this guy is. It was one goal when Argentina was forgiven at least two reds cards (Otamendi and Mercado), never mind how playing with 9 would have affected when they were trailing the result. Argentina is a mess, Messi never shows up and Shaka is biased and delusional.

  7. Argentina's problem is bigger then Messi! since 2006 Argentina has 6-7 different coaches, their worst coach was Maradona who actually one of the main reason of the bad career of Messi with national!! their best coach was Sabella from 2011-14, he led the team to WC final then they decided to let him go. Then they got Martino a good coach, led them to Copa America final and again the federation decided to let him go. Then they go Sampaoli just 1 year before WC 18 and he almost failed to qualify Argentina if it wasn't for Messi. Now Argentina in WC and their only preparation was playing against Haiti!!!! The only reason people were hoping that Argentina will do good in WC is because of Messi.

  8. They should have played Di Maria in 2014 World cup final. He was the missing puzzle piece. Argentina would be 2014 World Cup Champions. Never forget.

  9. Otamendi mercado maserano taglafico enzoperez pavon meza sampaoli and number8 deserve a cookie to not play with full passion to carrying messi. Unlike the portugal team

  10. Messi continue to play for your country Argentina need you more than anything. If messi retire his country will face problem for some years and the legacy of footballing nation status will diminish.

  11. I have been wathcing football since 2014 because of u..before 2014 i dint know the basics of football like offside,onside,free kick…because of ur magical skills i enjoyed watching football..from 2014 worldcup i watched every game of u..thank u so much…love u messi..messi..messi..without u i cant imagine this game..love u messi frm india

  12. Argentina need some big changes. A lot of players of this team would not even be selected for the 23 man squad if the team was France/Croatia/Belgium. Time for young blood.

  13. Who appointed Sampaoli at the first place. He didn't seem to be fit to manage a world class team. Dude, this is world cup football, happens once in four years. We needed a better coach at this time. How could he exclude Icardi, make Dybala sit at the bench and play aguero only in the second half. Sampaoli managed to give games to likes of Meza, perez, pavon etc. I haven't heard about these players before this world cup. Poor team selection and poor tactics done by Mr. Coach led to debacle. Poor Messi lost his last chance.

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