Lionel Messi is yet to make a decision on his 2026 World Cup involvement, Guillem Balague has said. He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.
According to him, nobody knows whether the Argentine GOAT will grace that tournament at this point, and Messi prefers to take it game by game till he gets to decide.
Balague added that if Lionel renews his contract at Inter Miami and stays in America, he’ll evaluate what the future holds with national team football.
His words, “What about next summer’s World Cup? Nobody knows, least of all, Messi himself. At the moment he is just taking it game by game, tournament by tournament.
If he renews and stays in America, he’ll evaluate the situation when he needs to, but for the time being he is just taking things step by step.
Everyone involved wants to see him leading Argentina at the World Cup in America in a year’s time. But he has not indicated to anyone what his final decision is. That is how you have to deal with Messi: let him take the decision at his own time. But the suspicion is that the 2026 World Cup could be his swansong with the national team.”
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Lionel Andrés Messi, also known as Leo Messi, is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a forward for and captains both Major League Soccer club Inter Miami and the Argentina national team. Widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time, Messi has won a record seven Ballon d’Or awards and a record six European Golden Shoes, and in 2020 he was named to the Ballon d’Or Dream Team.
Until leaving the club in 2021, he had spent his entire professional career with Barcelona, where he won a club-record 35 trophies, including ten La Liga titles, seven Copa del Rey titles and the UEFA Champions League four times.
With his country, he won the 2021 Copa América and the 2022 FIFA World Cup. A prolific goalscorer and creative playmaker, Messi holds the records for most goals in La Liga (474), most hat-tricks in La Liga (36) and the UEFA Champions League (eight), and most assists in La Liga (192) and the Copa América (17).
He also has the most international goals by a South American male (103). Messi has scored over 800 senior career goals for club and country, and has the most goals by a player for a single club (672).
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