There was an ethereal, dreamlike quality to the extraordinary footage of Argentina’s World Cup celebrations at the El Monumental stadium in Buenos Aires.
It almost feels like it never actually happened. As if there’s been a rip in the fabric between the fabric of reality and Lionel Messi’s consciousness.
During that moment in the dying seconds of the World Cup final, with Randal Kolo Muani suddenly played through and given a golden chance of winning it for France, you can see Messi stood alone by the centre circle.
The No.10 could do nothing but stand and watch as Emiliano Martinez stuck that foot out. The rest was history. But you imagine in those few short seconds – that felt like an eternity – Messi’s mind wandered to the Monumental and these very moments, all he’d ever dreamt of, being snatched away.
It played a scene at the end of the most epic, schlocky sports film by a director that possesses zero subtlety. And it was all the better for it.
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