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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Sport
John Cross

Lionel Messi moment is what Qatar has been praying for in grand World Cup plan

Lusail Iconic Stadium is so vast that it looks and feels way too big to be a football ground.

It holds 90,000 fans and was built to be the centrepiece of the Qatar World Cup : shining and lit up on the outside and fireworks, pumping music and no expense spared on the inside. Whatever you make of this World Cup, the organisers were determined to make it work - at any cost.

As a pure football tournament, it has been well organised, many fans have enjoyed it and no set of supporters have brought more to the party than Argentina. They have been loud, they have been decked out in blue and white and, at every game, they have come to pay homage to Lionel Messi.

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