La Liga News – Lionel Messi – After the FIFA World Cup
The very quiet and short Argentinean player, Lionel Messi, who was sent home after a disappointing FIFA World Cup, finally came in front of the people when he played a match against his friends.
Argentinean team, along with their coach Diego Maradona, were one of the favourites to win the FIFA World Cup 2010. With amazing talent upfront, Maradona's side was expected to score a lot of goals; which they eventually did.
Their qualification round was nothing but disappointing. They failed to qualify in the first go and had to play in the play-offs to qualify for the FIFA World Cup; but later when they did, they were considered to be a force that cannot be stopped.
Their FIFA World Cup 2010 started off with the group stages and they had to face Nigeria, Korea and Greece. Their first match was against the Nigerians. The match was supposed to be really tight for the South American side but the impressive Lionel Messi did his best to put his team ahead, but failed to do so. Soon a corner from Veron was put to home by Heinze as the team won 1-0 and secured 3 points. In their next match, they had to face the Koreans who were looking really good at the defence. The Argentineans scored their first goal as the free-kick from Lionel Messi deflected off a Korean defender and went inside the goal to make it 1-0. Later, a move from Messi was tapped-in by Higuain to make it 2-0. Soon, the Koreans came back by making the score line 2-1 and the half ended. In the second half, Lionel Messi struck a shot on the pole as it was deflected and came straight onto Higuain's feet and he made no mistake and made it 3-1 for the Argentineans. Then, Aguero was introduced into the team and the combo between Messi and Aguero turned out to be deadly when Messi made a run into the 18 yards box and passed the ball onto Aguero who crossed it onto Higuain's head and Higuain scored the first hat-trick of the FIFA World Cup 2010.
The last match of their group stages was with Greece. The Greeks looked really tough on the defence as they were not letting the Argentineans through and the magician Lionel Messi could not even do much to make his team win. Later in the second half, Demichlies scored the first goal from the corner taken my Lionel Messi. Soon, in the second half, Messi went into the 18 yards box and took a shot which was deflected from the keeper and the Palmero scored the goal to make it 2-0 for the Argentinean side as they won the match to keep their "all-winning" streak. Later, in the quarter finals they defeated the Mexicans with a 2 goal margin as they won the match 3-1 with a little help from the Barcelona player, Messi. Then they had to face the "real" deal. Germany were their opponents in the quarter finals and the Argentineans were thrashed as they lost the match 4-0. It was a huge disappointment for the Argentineans and Lionel Messi too, as he could not do much to score goals for his country. He did not give an interview in South Africa and just went off.
Now, finally Lionel Messi came forward in front of the TV screen when he played a friendly match with his friends in Panama. On Wednesday, a friendly match was played between the rest of the world team and Lionel Messi's friends. It was all under the rain with 25000 people watching the match. Messi played an amazing match as he scored a hat-trick after scoring in the 32nd, 45th and 87th minute to win the match 6-4.
Lionel Messi was not the only Barcelona player as Gabriel Milito and Pinto were also in the match. The match ended 6-4 as Messi scored a hat-trick from his side and Blas Perez scored a hat-trick from his.
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