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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
Sport
Keifer MacDonald

Lionel Messi has one last big career challenge and Liverpool are one of the few teams that can stop him

Qatar's Lusail Stadium was the venue where Lionel Messi would finally end THE debate.

Seventeen years on from his international bow for Argentina and 172 appearances and five World Cup campaigns later, Messi would finally enter the pantheon of international football greats.

Pele, Diego Maradona, Ronaldo Nazario and Zinedine Zidane would open their arms and embrace the boy from Rosario, Argentina, who finally led his nation to their first World Cup triumph in 36 years after perhaps the greatest World Cup final of all time.

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