Post by The Times Of India

One final. Two footballing worlds. A lifetime of meaning packed into 90 minutes. Lionel Messi returns to New Jersey, the place where defeat once made him walk away from international football, seeking another extraordinary turn in his story. Standing between him and history are Spain’s collective brilliance, their revived tiki-taka and a 37-match unbeaten run. From Borges’ Aleph to the shared past of coaches Lionel Scaloni and Luis de la Fuente, this is more than a World Cup final. It is redemption against reinvention, Argentina’s devotion to Messi against Spain’s faith in the collective. Read our curtain-raiser to a final for the ages. https://lnkd.in/g95yzRuC