“What is going to happen after this?” Messi asked himself when declaring before Argentine television in the mixed zone. “Obviously I wanted to close my career with this, I can’t ask for anything anymore,” he said.
Messi highlighted how much he fought in his career and that the Cup was given to him “almost at the end” in his fifth World Cup.
“But on the other hand, I love football, I love what I do, I enjoy it and I enjoy being in the National Team, being with this group. And obviously I want to continue living a few more games being world champion,” said the player, also from PSG.
With a smile that never goes away and the trophy in his hands, Messi was more than satisfied. “I think that everyone wants this (the cup). It is the most desired by any player. It is anyone’s little dream,” he said.
“It’s crazy that it happened at the time it happened, but it’s impressive. It’s impressive that it could end this way. I knew, I said it at some point, that God was going to give it to me and I don’t know why I had a presentiment that this was going to be. Once again it made me feel enormously happy,” he added.
With this triumph, Argentina added its third trophy, after having won in Argentina-1978 with Mario Kempes’s team, and in Mexico-1986 with Diego Maradona’s.