How are they going to persuade me that magic doesn’t exist: Lionel Messi posts photograph with World Cup

Lionel Messi helped Argentina to its third World Cup on December 18 and has since returned to French Club Paris Saint Germain to renew membership duties. But the magic of profitable the massive one is troublesome to overlook as Messi on Saturday posted a photograph of himself and his Argentine teammates with the World Cup trophy.

“How are they going to convince me that magic doesn’t exist?,” the photograph was captioned.

Recently, Messi was awarded the ‘Champions of Champions’ award, offered to the very best athlete of the 12 months by French publication L’Equipe, on Friday for his performances with Argentina.

Voted for by the workers of the journal, the award has been in existence since 1946 – and open to athletes exterior of France since 1975 – however the stringent judgment requirements made it onerous for these enjoying staff sports activities to win. This 12 months, nevertheless, the highest 2 have been each from soccer.

Messi gained the award by a landslide 808 factors whereas tennis participant Rafael Nadal, after his double Grand Slam profitable season, bicycle owner Remco Evenepoel, and two-time reigning Formula One champion Max Verstappen fashioned the remainder of the highest 5.

Messi joins countryman Diego Maradona (1986), Paolo Rossi (1982), Romario (1994), and Zinedine Zidane (1998) as the one footballers to be conferred the prize. The widespread thread amongst all of them – every of them led their respective nations to World Cup glory that 12 months.

On Wednesday, Messi arrived on the PSG coaching floor and a guard of honour was given to him. He was handed a small trophy by sporting director Luis Campos, whereas he was applauded onto the coaching pitch..