Messi farewell brings Argentina career full circle
Fox Sports reports that Lionel Messi’s final Argentina match featured his 126th international goal and a tribute that included his son Thiago.
Lionel Messi played what Fox Sports describes as his final match for Argentina in Buenos Aires, where the post-match tributes brought together a national milestone and a family moment.
Messi scored his 126th goal for Argentina. A drone display honoured him, and in a speech he recalled his late father and his nation.
During the tributes, his son Thiago embraced him. Fox Sports reports that both were crying. The account places the embrace alongside Messi’s international retirement, while its interpretation of what the moment meant to Thiago is the writer’s own.
The farewell follows a career marked in the source by Argentina’s losses in the 2014 World Cup final and the 2015 and 2016 Copa América finals, before the team won the World Cup in 2022.
Before the fixture, background material said Messi’s final-match status had not been publicly confirmed. Fox Sports now describes the Buenos Aires match as his last for the national team.
