Lionel Messi in his 30s was one of the best international players ever | Jeff Rueter

In the decade after his short-lived first retirement, the Argentina talisman upended previous narratives and solidified his place in history Perhaps somewhere, in some dusty journal that’s surely been lost in Rosario, Lionel Messi made clear his destiny: that if he were to one…

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