Messi Returns to Argentina
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Lionel Messi marked his return to the Argentine national team with a goal, scoring his 117th in a 3-0 friendly victory over Iceland. The 38-year-old expressed confidence in Argentina's chances for the 2026 World Cup, emphasizing the team's fighting spirit.
Five Key Moments in Lionel Messi’s Argentina Career
Lionel Messi has ended his international career with Argentina after 21 years, closing a chapter that began with a shy teenager carrying the weight of his country’s expectations. His time with the national team transformed him into Argentina’s most decorated modern footballer. The career included defining moments that shaped both Messi’s standing in the country and the way Argentina’s football sto…
Messi and Argentina: A story of hopes, failures and triumphs
Lionel Messi’s relationship with Argentina ended after a winding journey from teenage promise to repeated heartbreak and, ultimately, national-team glory. His retirement announcement closes one of the…
Antonela Roccuzzo sends emotional message to Lionel Messi: “I’m proud of you”
Antonela Roccuzzo answered Lionel Messi’s retirement announcement with a family tribute and a declaration of pride in his Argentina career. Roccuzzo shared photographs of the family on social media an…
Milei Thanks Messi After Argentina Retirement: “Thank You, Impossible Man”
Javier Milei thanked Lionel Messi with a short tribute after the Argentine captain ended his more than two-decade career with the national team. “Thank you, impossible man,” the president wrote on Ins…
Tributes Pour In After Messi Announces Argentina Retirement: ‘Thank You, Impossible Man’
Lionel Messi’s farewell from Argentina’s national team has prompted an outpouring of gratitude from teammates, clubs, officials and football organizations around the world. Messi said the decision had…
Infantino pays emotional tribute to Messi after Argentina retirement: “He has inspired millions”
Lionel Messi’s decision to end his Argentina career prompted tributes across football, with FIFA president Gianni Infantino describing the forward’s international journey as extraordinary. Messi annou…
Bolivia’s 6-1 win ranks among Messi’s biggest humiliations with Argentina
Lionel Messi’s record in Bolivia contains one of the heaviest defeats of his Argentina career. On April 1, 2009, Argentina lost 6-1 to Bolivia at La Paz’s Hernando Siles stadium in a World Cup qualify…
Argentina bids farewell to Messi as teammates salute their ‘eternal’ captain
Argentina is saying goodbye to Lionel Messi after the captain announced that he will end his national-team career. The federation marked the moment on social media with a message of “Eternal gratitude…
Messi's defining moments with Argentina
Lionel Messi's decision to retire from Argentina's national team closes an international career marked by moments that became part of the country's sporting history. The clearest image is Messi liftin…
World champion Lionel Messi retires from international soccer with Argentina
Lionel Messi has ended his international career with Argentina after two decades, six World Cups and 125 goals for the national team. The 39-year-old announced the decision on Instagram, saying it hur…
Goodbye, Argentina: Lionel Messi announces retirement from national team
Lionel Messi has ended his nearly two-decade career with Argentina’s national team, announcing the decision through social media after the country lost the 2026 World Cup final to Spain. Argentina, th…
Lionel Messi Retires from Argentina’s National Team
Lionel Messi has decided that the time has come to leave Argentina’s national team, six weeks after the country’s defeat by Spain in the 2026 World Cup final. Messi announced the decision on Instagram…
Messi Announces Retirement from Argentina’s National Team in Emotional Farewell
Lionel Messi has announced that he will leave Argentina’s national team, calling the decision painful but saying that the time to say goodbye has arrived. The 39-year-old star said in an Instagram pos…
GOAT Messi announces Argentina retirement: “I gave everything I had”
Lionel Messi has announced his retirement from Argentina’s national team, calling it a painful decision that he now believes must be made. In a statement posted on Instagram, Messi said he had thought…
Lionel Messi finally closes the chapter that began with a red card in Budapest
Lionel Messi’s Argentina career began with a red card in Budapest and ended after 207 international appearances, 125 goals and a long series of records and major titles. Vilmos Vanczák, the Hungarian …
Lionel Messi: A football profile
Lionel Messi, widely regarded as Argentina’s biggest football star since Diego Maradona, has ended his international career after 21 years with the national team. The eight-time Ballon d’Or winner lea…
Lionel Messi retires from Argentina national team: “I gave everything”
Lionel Messi says he has reached the end of his Argentina career. The 39-year-old forward announced his retirement on Instagram, less than two months after Argentina lost the 2026 World Cup final to S…
Lionel Messi Announces Retirement From Argentina National Team
Lionel Messi has ended his Argentina career 43 days after the team lost the World Cup final to Spain, closing more than two decades with the national side. The 39-year-old captain announced his decisi…
An Era Ends as Messi Retires From Argentina National Team
Lionel Messi's Argentina career has ended with tears in front of the fans and a World Cup final defeat to Spain. The 39-year-old forward announced his retirement after more than 20 years with the nati…
Lionel Messi retires from Argentina’s national team
Lionel Messi has ended his career with Argentina’s national team, announcing the decision 43 days after the team’s 1-0 extra-time defeat by Spain in the World Cup final. The 39-year-old made the annou…
Messi Announces Retirement from Argentina National Team
Lionel Messi has announced his retirement from Argentina’s football national team after 207 international appearances, 125 goals and a World Cup title. The eight-time world player of the year said on …
Farewell to a Legend: Lionel Messi Announces International Retirement with Argentina
Lionel Messi’s final match for Argentina ended in tears. The 39-year-old captain has now confirmed that the World Cup final against Spain on July 19 was his last international appearance. Argentina lo…
Lionel Messi says he is retiring from international football
Lionel Messi has announced his retirement from international football at age 39, saying the decision “hurt and still hurts deep in my soul.” The announcement came after Messi led Argentina to a second…
Breaking: Football great Lionel Messi announces retirement from Argentina team
Lionel Messi has announced that he will retire from Argentina’s national team, less than a month after the death of his father, Jorge. Messi had expressed doubts about the future of his career followi…
Argentina great Messi announces international retirement
Lionel Messi has announced the end of his international career after 21 years with Argentina, closing a chapter that brought the country its third World Cup title in 2022. The 39-year-old captain made…
Lionel Messi ends Argentina international career
Lionel Messi has announced that he will end his international football career with Argentina. Messi shared the decision on his Instagram account on Monday. He represented Argentina at this summer’s Wo…
Messi announces retirement from Argentina national team
Lionel Messi has ended his Argentina career after the 2026 World Cup final, saying the decision brought him deep pain but that he understood the time had come. The Inter Miami forward announced his re…
Lionel Messi announces his retirement from Argentina’s national team after 2026 World Cup
Lionel Messi says his time with Argentina is ending after the 2026 World Cup, a decision he described as painful but increasingly certain. In a statement posted on social media, the 39-year-old forwar…
Messi retires from Argentina’s national team
Lionel Messi has announced that he is stepping away from Argentina’s national team after a career that made him both the country’s most-capped player and its leading scorer. Messi, 39, became world ch…
Lionel Messi Announces International Retirement: “I Have Nothing More to Give”
Lionel Messi has announced that he will stop playing for Argentina’s national team, bringing what VRT NWS calls a particularly beautiful era toward its end. Messi won the 2022 World Cup with Argentina…
Messi Announces His Departure from Argentina’s National Team
Lionel Messi said he will leave Argentina’s national team, ending his international career after captaining the side to the 2022 World Cup title and the 2026 final. The 39-year-old announced the decis…
Lionel Messi announces retirement from international football
Lionel Messi has decided that his international career is over, one month after Argentina lost the 2026 World Cup final to Spain. The 39-year-old captain made the announcement in a statement posted on…
Milei Thanks Messi After His Argentina Retirement: ‘Thank You, Impossible Man’
Javier Milei thanked Lionel Messi after the forward announced his retirement from Argentina’s national team, calling him an “impossible man” in an Instagram post beside a photo of Messi wearing the te…
Lionel Messi’s announcement causes global Instagram outages
Lionel Messi’s announcement that he would retire from Argentina’s national team was followed by a global wave of Instagram problems, with users reporting difficulty loading content. Error reports rose…
In Honor of Harry Potter? The Symbolic Pen Lionel Messi Used in His Farewell Letter
Lionel Messi’s farewell to Argentina’s national team came in handwriting, across three pages, with an unexpected object sharing the frame: an elaborate pen with metallic and gold details. The football…
Lionel Messi Bids Farewell to Argentina
Lionel Messi has announced his retirement from Argentina’s national team at age 39, saying that the decision still hurts but that he knows the time has come. Messi made the announcement on Instagram m…
Lionel Messi inspires a flood of memes after announcing Argentina retirement
Lionel Messi’s announcement that he is leaving Argentina’s national team quickly became a source of online humor, with social media filling with memes about the end of his international career. Messi …
Messi’s Argentina career closes after a World Cup, two Copa América titles and a record haul
Lionel Messi’s retirement from Argentina closes a national-team career that began with an expulsion seconds after his debut and ended after more than two decades of records and trophies. Messi first a…
Argentina bid farewell to Messi: “Eternal gratitude, Leo”
Lionel Messi has decided to end his career with Argentina’s national team after 207 appearances and 125 goals in the Albiceleste shirt. The 39-year-old superstar announced the decision in an emotional…
Messi announces retirement from Argentina national team
Lionel Messi has announced his retirement from Argentina’s national team, ending a long and highly successful spell with the Albiceleste. The decision came weeks after Argentina lost the 2026 World Cu…
After Final Defeat to Spain, Lionel Messi Bids Farewell to Argentina at 39
Lionel Messi says the pain of Argentina’s latest final defeat has convinced him that the time has come to leave international football. At 39, the Inter Miami forward announced his retirement from the…
Lionel Messi retires from Argentina’s national team
Argentina must look for a new talisman after Lionel Messi decided to end a national-team career that lasted about two decades. Messi announced the decision in an Instagram post. The 39-year-old forwar…
Lionel Messi Announces International Retirement
Lionel Messi has chosen what he called the “right time” to leave Argentina’s national team, two days after the team’s defeat by Spain in the 2026 World Cup final. The loss ended Messi’s final appearan…
Lionel Messi retires from Argentina’s national team
Lionel Messi has announced that he is leaving Argentina’s national team, ending his international career at 39. The football star made the announcement on Instagram. The report says Argentina’s World …
Argentina Football Hero Lionel Messi Retires from International Soccer
Lionel Messi has ended his Argentina career at 39, announcing his retirement from the national team on social media. The decision came six weeks after Argentina lost the World Cup final to Spain 1-0 a…
Breaking: Lionel Messi Retires from Argentina’s National Team
Lionel Messi says he has reached the end of his Argentina career after two decades in the national-team shirt. “I want to announce to everyone that I am leaving the National Team,” he wrote, describin…
Lionel Messi ends his historic career with Argentina
Lionel Messi has decided that his time with Argentina is over. In an emotional letter posted on Instagram, the captain and leading figure of the national team said he would not wear the Albiceleste sh…
Infantino bids farewell to Messi from Argentina duty: “He redefined our beautiful sport”
Gianni Infantino has offered Lionel Messi a glowing farewell as the Argentina captain closes his historic period with the national team. In a message published through FIFA’s official channels, the or…
Lionel Messi Announces Retirement From Argentina Team: “It Hurts Deeply, but I Leave at Peace”
Lionel Messi says he has emptied himself for Argentina and no longer has anything left to give. In a statement written two days after the final, he announced that he would retire from the national tea…
Argentine Football Figures Salute Lionel Messi After His National-Team Retirement
Lionel Messi said he had “given all I had” as he announced his retirement from Argentina’s national team, prompting an emotional wave of tributes from teammates and football clubs. The 39-year-old for…
Lionel Messi and Argentina: Goals, Tears, Maradona, Antonela and the World Cup
Lionel Messi’s farewell to Argentina’s national team is told through a montage of goals, assists, tears and the memories that shaped his international career. After announcing his decision in a letter…
Messi Posts Emotional Video to Remember His Celebrated Argentina Career
Lionel Messi marked his departure from the Argentina national team with an emotional video celebrating his time in the Albiceleste shirt. The footage revisits his debut, including his sending-off agai…
Messi announces retirement from Argentina national team: “I gave everything, and I have nothing left to give”
Lionel Messi has announced his retirement from Argentina’s national team after more than two decades with the Albiceleste. The captain said he wrote the statement on July 21, two days after the 2026 W…
The End of an Era: Lionel Messi’s Argentina Story
Lionel Messi’s Argentina career began with years of frustration and ended with nearly every major trophy in his collection. After 21 years with the senior national team, the 37-year-old confirmed his …
Lionel Messi announces retirement from Argentina team: “I have emptied myself, I have nothing left to give”
Lionel Messi has announced his retirement from Argentina’s national team, closing a two-decade international career crowned by a World Cup title and two Copa América championships. In a public letter,…
