IndiaAIFounders — Messi’s exit leaves Argentina with impossible task of replacing their superhero

When things are going awry, the Albiceleste will no longer be able to rely on their ultimate get-out clause

It isn’t quite over yet. Lionel Messi will return a week on Wednesday for his formal farewell in a friendly against Benin, but, before that, Argentina face two games when they will begin to experience a future without the most potent get-out-of-jail-free card football has known.

Messi’s international career falls into two distinct halves. There was the first decade when there was a sense that he didn’t quite fit, was somehow insufficiently Argentinian, didn’t care for his country. That was always absurd and can be recognised now as a manifestation of the Argentinian public’s frustration at their trophy drought despite the presence in their forward line of one of the best three to play the game.

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Messi’s exit leaves Argentina with impossible task of replacing their superhero | Jonathan Wilson