Lionel Messi starts this Saturday
Argentina
against newcomer
Iceland
his journey in Russia-2018 carrying a heavy backpack loaded with three lost finals, on a day when VAR made its debut in a World Cup.
Messi is used to dealing with pressures and carrying Barcelona and the national team on his shoulders, although never to the extent that the only valid thing is to take Argentina to win its third World Cup.
The Argentine public, who has arrived in multitudes in Moscow, would not bear a fourth consecutive frustration, after the national team was left at the gates in Brazil-2014 and in the 2015 and 2016 editions of the Copa America.
The 'Messi generation', which includes Javier Mascherano, Sergio Agüero, Angel Di Maria and Gonzalo Higuain, may have the last opportunity in Russia to end Argentina's negative streak and the one it has been dragging for a quarter of a century without winning any title.
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