In the high-class final of the World Cup in Qatar, Lionel Messi makes his dreams come true. Dramatic penalty shoot-out triumph after a real show causes glittering emotions in Argentina.
Lionel Messi has seen so much. And he actually won a lot. But when the best footballer in the world arrived at the door of his dreams in the golden temple of Lusail, when the stadium north of Doha slowly went dark, while the packed stands shook as so many of the nearly 90,000 people in them sang and they jumped, he too had to withdraw his magic foot which was elected best player of the World Cup. Let everything that had happened in what was perhaps the best World Cup final up to that point. Messi means…