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It took a decade and a half, but he did it. It took years of disappointment, a brief retirement from the Argentina national team, five World Cup appearances, a ton of frustration, the survival of two wild and furious France comebacks and a nerve-shredding penalty shootout Sunday.

But history will only remember that on a December night in Qatar, the world's most popular player finally won soccer's most important trophy, as his country beat France in one of the most thrilling finals in World Cup history.

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What a brilliant game. Really happy to see Messi get the win his career deserved, and it was double sweet having seen Macron in the stands cheering on France ????.

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...and so another World Cup is decided, essentially, on a coin toss.  Well, I suppose it is somewhat justified, since Argentina scored first in extra time. But truly an anticlimactic way to decide what is at heart a team sport.  

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"It took a decade and a half, but he did it."

Correction THEY did it. Football is a team sport. It's not tennis. Commentators  I watched (rightly) mentioned what a great team effort all Argentine players were giving, all at least rating an 8.

Congrats at last to Argentina, wonderful job in a superb match

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  On 12/19/2022 at 2:28 AM, Hanaguma said:

...and so another World Cup is decided, essentially, on a coin toss.  Well, I suppose it is somewhat justified, since Argentina scored first in extra time. But truly an anticlimactic way to decide what is at heart a team sport.  

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Argentina scored more penalties than France, so how was this match " .. decided, essentially, on a coin toss"?

 

The penalties during normal time were also a match-up between Messi/ Lloris and Mbappe/ Martinez. Individual 'battles' within a team game. Just one of the many elements which help explain why football (soccer) is the world's most popular sport.

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I'm wondering if all professional sporting events are rigged.

The last Superbowl (American football) seemed rigged, with horrendous calls made at crucial moments in the game. 

The theory is there was a new modern stadium built, so they had to let that team win to pay off the stadium. 

 

In this tournament, the most penalty calls in favor of any team were suspiciously for Argentina. 

 

Consider this. Messi is Fifa's precious boy. They want him to have the perfect career. When they artificially create legends, it generates more interest in the game. 

 

Sth else I find extremely odd. Every single player on the French team is of African descent, yet an African team never seems to make it to the semi-finals of these tournaments? 

 

 

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  On 12/19/2022 at 8:23 AM, Mac Mickmanus said:

That is what Americans call the game and that's what it was called in the U.K 100 years ago , these days the game is referred to as football , although some people just use the word soccer  to try to annoy others ,

   

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SOCCER is a word invented to describe Association Football to differentiate it from Rugby Football.

Was/is there not a program on telly called Soccer Sunday?

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A truly exciting match with arguably GOAT players on each team!

Argentina proved to be the winner after all was said and done !

Im happy for their fans ! Just watching them all come together during their national anthem was heart warming.

One of the best WC finals EVER.

still watching highlights ,over and over!

 

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