Messi Has A Touching Moment With His Mum.

Messi and his mother experienced a touching moment after the game as they hugged in the center of the field amid the flurry of celebration going on all around them.

Finally, Lionel Messi has triumphed above everything. After beating France 4-2 on penalties at the Lusail Stadium, the Argentine magician captured the illusive World Cup and cemented his place in football mythology.

Messi and his mother experienced a touching moment after the game as they hugged in the center of the field amid the flurry of celebration going on all around them.

After a thrilling game at the Lusail Stadium north of Doha, Argentina won the World Cup for a third time thanks to a crucial penalty kick from substitute Gonzalo Montiel. Kingsley Coman and Aurélien Tchouaméni missed their penalties for France in the shootout, which Argentina won 4-2.

Argentina defeated France 4-2 on penalties after a 3-3 draw to win the World Cup for the third time. It was one of the craziest finals in the 92-year history of the competition. Messi, 35, scored two goals and another in the shootout.

In the midst of it all, Kylian Mbappé of France, the 35-year-old Messi’s successor apparent, scored the first hat trick in a final in 56 years, striving to replicate Pelé of Brazil, who won his first two World Cups.

There is no longer a point of contention. In an elite group of the greatest football players of all time, Messi joins Pelé, a record-breaking three-time World Cup winner, and Diego Maradona, the late Argentina great with whom Messi was often compared.