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Africa-Press – Eritrea. <\/strong><\/span>Brazil, France, and England will be the biggest obstacles to Argentina\u2019s hopes of ending a 36-year Fifa World Cup title drought in Qatar, according to Albiceleste captain Lionel Messi.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhenever we talk about candidates, we always talk about the same teams,\u201d Messi said in an interview with the South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL).\u201cIf I have to put some above others, I think Brazil, France, and England are a little bit above the rest. But the World Cup is so difficult and so complicated that anything can happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

Two-time champions Argentina will kick off their campaign against Saudi Arabia on November 22 before also facing Mexico and Poland in Group C.<\/p>\n

Lionel Scaloni\u2019s men are undefeated in their past 35 games, a sequence that includes the 2021 Copa America final against Brazil. They are just two games shy of the record for the longest run of international matches without defeat, currently held by Italy.<\/p>\n

Messi will be playing in his fifth and almost certainly his last World Cup, having appeared on football\u2019s biggest stage for the first time at the 2006 tournament in Germany.<\/p>\n

The closest he has come to lift the Jules Rimet trophy was in 2014 when Argentina lost the final against Germany following an extra-time goal from Mario Goetze.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are very excited. We have a very good group that is enthusiastic, but we are taking things little by little,\u201d said the 35-year-old Paris Saint-Germain forward. \u201cWe hope to start the World Cup in the best way to face everything that comes after. The more you play and the more time you spend on the pitch, the more you get to know each other,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

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