Messi takes giant leap from Maradona´s shadow as Argentina conquer captain´s final frontier

Many thought Lionel Messi’s World Cup hopes had evaporated in the Kazan sun four and a half years ago when Argentina were beaten 4-3 by France in the quarter-finals of Russia 2018. Qatar 2022 brought the possibility for revenge, but again those chances looked to be vanishing as a Kylian Mbappe-inspired France simply refused to […]