I want to retire having won something with Argentina," Messi said this month. Messi is Argentina's all-time top scorer with 67 goals, and is not far from becoming their most capped player. Since then, they have lost four Copa America finals (2004, 2007, 2015, 2016) and a World Cup final (2014). He will never win a World Cup single-handedly, like Maradona is considered to have done in 1986. Before Argentina's World Cup group match with Croatia, Messi seemed to be sufferingIt took Messi nine months to openly speak about the traumatic World Cup experience.

Source: BBC June 12, 2019 22:52 UTC