Twenty-one years after a young Argentine mesmerised the world in Holland, Lionel Messi returned to football’s grandest stage to remind us that some legends do not age—they simply become history in motion.
Some players pass through football. A few transform it. The rarest become part of its eternal story.
The first time I watched Lionel Messi play, he was not yet a global icon.
He was simply a gifted teenager wearing Argentina’s colors at the 2005 FIFA World Youth Championship in the Netherlands.
Nigeria was in the final.
