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Lionel Messi’s Argentina ran wild over the French Napoleon boys to snatch the 2022 Qatar episode of the planet’s greatest football tournament in a killer final match at Lusail Stadium.
Saloni’s white-blue stripped boys were real quick to rubbish off French intention to bag back home the historic trophy for two consecutive times. Early goals from former Barcelona & Manchester United playmakers Lionel Messi and Angel Di Maria on the 23rd & 36th minute would have been the final nail of the French Coffin. However, that seemed not to be the end of the race when Kyilian Mbappe scored two goals within the space of two minutes in the early 80s’ minutes.
Both teams were back to square as the trophy seemed to be steadily sliding away from the Latin American side. Pressure mounted from the peaks of Qatar, through the jungles of Alebtong, across the pot-hole city of Kampala until the streets of Buenos Aires where the shadow of Argentina Victory was fast diminishing in thin air as the majority French fans kept pushing even furthest.
French coach Deschamps had already repaired the French right back by warning Kounde, Tchouameni and pulling out Dembele who had long been used by Di Maria as a walking stick.
The game changed, the Argentina whimpered unceasing gnashed teeth as the French mercilessly introduced Thuram and Camavinga, the masters of threat, by this time Mbappe shifted gears to the middle as Thuram controlled the race from the left wing.
By the end of the 120 minutes, both teams were back to 3:3 square and headed to penalties where the famous Argentina keeper Martinez beat the French guns flat to glinch his home nation a World Cup Victory.
Lionel Messi took Golden Ball Award, Mbappe bagged Golden Boot with 8 goals including that hattrick in the final, Emiliano Martinez Golden Glove, Enzo Fernandez with best young player of the tournament award.
With this final, the long argument of who is Greatest of all times (GOAT) was decided on since one was lifting the trophy as another was long watching Telemundo after being ejected weeks ago.
This edition of 2022 World Cup final had a total prize pool of $72 million (over 260billion shs). The winner will receive the highest prize in the competition, $42 million, while the runner-up will take home $30 million.
