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Lionel Messi is fine, thank you for him.
Transfigured between a first Parisian season of adaptation and the start of the 2022-2023 campaign, the seven-time Ballon d'Or reached the peak of his career in Qatar this winter.
Despite an “incredible”
performance
from Kylian Mbappé in the final, Messi finally won this World Cup that he was missing.
Competition that brought out what is most Argentine in him.
“
He felt part of a team in the noblest sense of the word, a bit like when he was 12, when everyone is friends, everyone works for each other.
In this case, it was a team in which everyone recognized their role.
When he said “bobo”
(idiot, editor’s note)
to Wout Weghorst
(after the quarter-final against the Netherlands),
it's a word that children use.
And it's not as insulting as that, but it symbolizes his state of mind, in a way the resurrection of the 12-year-old kid that he was,
”underlines…
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