Deep down, he is still the boy from Rosario, Santa Fe, who just doesn’t want to let go.Lionel Messi doesn’t want to let go of his career, of time, of the joy.Here as this incredible story continues to evolve in America, the greatest many of us have ever seen certainly doesn’t want to let go of his World Cup.We thought we had seen the most perfect tale of all on that incredible night in Qatar three and a half years ago. At the age of 35, Messi finally got his hands on the most cherished trophy of all and it seemed his story was complete.Yet he we are and here he is, still bending the shape and definition of big football matches by the sheer magnitude of his genius, by the sheer depth of an unquenchable competitor’s spirit that runs through the middle of him like a streak of blue and white steel.Here beneath the roof of Atlanta’s World Cup stadium, Messi took hold of a game that had seemingly gone from his country’s grasp and simply dragged it back again. An assist and then and equalising goal of such timing, velocity and ferocious beauty to finally break the will and the hearts of an Egypt team that had seemed set to bring us the greatest shock of his incredible World Cup.
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