Argentina’s friendly with Benin is less an international fixture and more a thinly veiled testimonial for Lionel Messi.
There will be barbecues, cuddles and fights for his last jersey—and that’s just from the Benin players. A decade after he first called it quits for Argentina, Messi will definitively sign off on Tuesday night having finally scaled the peaks which had eluded him for so much of his international career.
