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Africa-Press – Mauritius. <\/strong><\/span>Argentina\u2019s World Cup-winning captain Lionel Messi has quashed speculation and pledged to continue playing for his country, despite realising his lifetime ambition of winning the sport\u2019s biggest prize.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to keep experiencing a few more matches as world champion,\u201d the 35-year-old told Argentinian television following an epic penalty shoot-out victory over France in the World Cup final in Qatar on Sunday.<\/p>\n

I was lucky to clinch every title in my career, this was the only one missing,\u201d Messi said. \u201cI want to take this one there [to Argentina] and enjoy it with everybody else.<\/p>\n

\u201d Messi opened the scoring for Argentina with a 23rd-minute penalty and also found the net in extra-time for the 3-2 in the 108th. France\u2019s 23-year-old superstar Kylian Mbappe completed his hat-trick to take the game to a shoot-out, in which he and Messi also scored. Messi, now indisputably one of the greatest players the game has ever seen, had said the tournament in Qatar would be his last World Cup.<\/p>\n

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Argentina\u2019s World Cup-winning captain Lionel Messi has quashed speculation and pledged to continue playing for his country, despite realising his lifetime ambition of winning the sport\u2019s biggest prize. \u201cI want to keep experiencing a few more matches as world champion,\u201d the 35-year-old told Argentinian television following an epic penalty shoot-out victory over […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":23847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,17],"tags":[233,245,241,514],"class_list":["post-23848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-mauritius","tag-mauritius","tag-world-cup"],"yoast_head":"\nMessi says he will not retire from Argentinian national team - Mauritius<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Argentina\u2019s World Cup-winning captain Lionel Messi has quashed speculation and pledged to continue playing for his count ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/messi-says-he-will-not-retire-from-argentinian-national-team\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Messi says he will not retire from Argentinian national team\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Argentina\u2019s World Cup-winning captain Lionel Messi has quashed speculation and pledged to continue playing for his count ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/messi-says-he-will-not-retire-from-argentinian-national-team\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Mauritius\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-12-19T09:34:19+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-12-19T10:01:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/sites\/61\/2022\/12\/postQueueImg_1671430011.74.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/messi-says-he-will-not-retire-from-argentinian-national-team#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/messi-says-he-will-not-retire-from-argentinian-national-team\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Messi says he will not retire from Argentinian national team\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-12-19T09:34:19+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-12-19T10:01:07+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/messi-says-he-will-not-retire-from-argentinian-national-team\"},\"wordCount\":190,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/messi-says-he-will-not-retire-from-argentinian-national-team#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/sites\/61\/2022\/12\/postQueueImg_1671430011.74.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Mauritius\",\"Mauritius\",\"World Cup\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"sport\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/messi-says-he-will-not-retire-from-argentinian-national-team#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/messi-says-he-will-not-retire-from-argentinian-national-team\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/messi-says-he-will-not-retire-from-argentinian-national-team\",\"name\":\"Messi says he will not retire from Argentinian national team - 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