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Messi time: the opportunity of the star of Argentina to take revenge in the Netherlands - voila! FIFA World Cup

2022-12-09T14:18:07.610Z


Argentina against the Netherlands in the quarter-finals? We were in this movie in 1998. Now is Messi's time to mend the fractures since then, while at the same time he can knock out Ronaldo and get closer to Maradona


Report by Paz Hasdai, messenger of Walla!

Sports for Qatar, after Argentina's victory over Mexico (photo: Paz Hasdaei, video editing: Tal Reznik)

Moments in a man's life that he cannot forget.

When this person is a football fan, 90% of these moments are, of course, related to football.

Children born?

Shocking experiences?

Such weddings?

That is forgotten.

But where were you in Argentina-Holland in 1998?

You will take this with you even a hundred years into the future.



For God's sake, this was a perfect Argentinian team.

She looked like a child who is the fruit of the love of Juan Veron and Cholo Simeone.

Ariel Ortega with the number 10 on his back, Gabriel Batistuta a central striker, a bunch of rascals with the face of senior players in the batting industry in defense - how can you not die for this thing?

The highlight of this team was, of course, the abuse of naive and poor England in the round of 16.

It was one of the biggest games of the World Cup, three goals in a quarter of an hour and another masterful goal in a huge exercise a second before the break, a red card for David Beckham that is all about the art of Argentinean 1986-style fraud, and a British penalty disgrace in the best tradition we all love - and all, of course, when the camera is moving Incessant chanting of the Creator's representative on earth, Diego Armando Maradona, is exhausted from life in the stands.



But then came the quarter finals.

Saturday, 17:00, beginning of July, an atmosphere of great freedom in the air, watermelon for children and watermelon seeds for those who already have asbestos bristles on their face - and again a stormy start to the game.

1-1 after 17 minutes, Holland took the lead, Argentina equalized pretty quickly, and the rest was boring.

Really, a game that had nothing in it.

We had already smelled the penalties, the fantasies about a semi-final between Argentina and Brazil started flooding the head, everything was ready - and then...



those who don't know Dennis Bergkamp's goal against Argentina in the quarter-finals of the 1998 World Cup - should leave everything, go to YouTube, He will see the goal and come back here.

It was impossible to do anything against this thing - this is a goal that broke the Argentina team for several good years.

One of the most beautiful goals of the 90s, the most accurate in the history of the World Cup, the most successful in the history of the Dutch national team.

big moment

Bergkamp (Photo: GettyImages, GEORGES GOBET)

And here, 24 years later, a golden opportunity for revenge.

Holland again against Argentina in the quarter-finals, a game that will lead to a semi-final against Brazil (if they lose to Croatia, world football should be folded).

Only this time the circumstances are different: Argentina is bad, and not in the good sense of the word.

She is simply limited in the football she plays, even against Australia the Argentinians were dragged to a tense half hour.

Argentina is the only team in the world - in fact, it is the last team in the world - that rises with all possible national weight on its shoulders - starting from the hatred towards them in world football (sponsored by the British lobby that will never forgive the humiliation in 1986) and ending with the never-ending spirit of the greatest of them all, that for seven World Cups she hovered in the form of human flesh in the honor stand and this time she is looking down.



And of course there is the matter of Leo Messi.

This story sharpens very significantly in light of Cristiano Ronaldo's caricature.

After the Portugal national team gave one of the greatest games in its history in recent years in the round of 16 against Switzerland, when a young boy who joined the team while Cristiano was on the bench celebrating with a hat trick - it seems that Cristiano's story is over.

This adds to the massive criticism he has in Portugal - after all, he came to this World Cup really out of shape, barely playing for Manchester United and eventually being cut from it.

He is not in the right direction and it really stood out in Portugal's games.

So he was moved aside.

And Messi was left alone.

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Now it's his turn.

Messi (Photo: GettyImages, Laurence Griffiths)

Now it's all about him.

Really on him.

This is his last World Cup and he won't have another chance to be "almost Maradona".

Finishing with a trophy while Cristiano finishes with sour faces on the bench - would be a crushing and unequivocal end to the debate that has been going on in the world of football for 15 years.

And of course there is the matter of sports revenge in the Netherlands for the heartbreak of 1998.

and Brazil in the semi-finals.

In short, the peak moment of world football in 2022 is just around the corner.

Will a kilo of watermelon seeds be enough?

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