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First scene, in Kazan : Kylian Mbappé – 19 year old French – has a smile similar to the one that told him his current coach, Didier Deschamps, when he won the World Cup in 1998 when the kid now surprises an entire stadium and the whole world was in his mother's womb. Close to the Frenchman who, for FIFA and for all, was the Player of the match, it is Lionel Messi. Alone, calm, beaten on the lawn. There are no words to say your pain. Hi with regard to those who have come out of the World Cup and with affection for his teammates. This is the final scene, the one that counts, without returns, this 4-3 of France against Argentina, in the round of 16.
This seems to be a curse. It has been repeated: the rosarino crack continues without converting the goals in the hand of the world cup. Four editions, eight parts, 756 minutes, without goal . The owner of almost all records can not with this kind of stigma. He can not be this stellar footballer who has become the top scorer in the history of the national team. Paradoxes of a star which, in these cases, could only offer lightning .
The rivals reject him with affection in gestures and with reverence in words. "It makes me love football," says Paul Pogba, another of Les Bleus . But there is no case: Messi continues to show – in his own way and in a way – his dismay.
This is the end of the World Cup for Messi. It is also the victory of the team football: France beat the crack who had no one around him.
Lionel Messi and his pain on the turf of Kazan. He did not play well. (EFE)
Second scene, in Sochi : Cristiano Ronaldo does not have that winning face that he has exhibited so recently in the Champions League match, with Real Madrid vs. Liverpool, Kiev. There is no smile of dental advertising. He does not look at this cautious move before every prize that has won in his crack winner way. His face has another result: Uruguay just won 2-1 against Portugal and left it on the road, also in the round of 16.
This was not a bad Cristiano World Cup. He played a first round for the applause (he scored four goals in three matches), but in the match against Uruguay he could not be that CR7 capable of everything under the Santiago Bernabéu's skies.
He did not play height of his wake in front of the Celeste del Maestro Tabárez. The team did not accompany him. Unlike the Uruguayan selected, which is just that: a kind of cooperative in the name of a goal.
C'is the end of the Cristiano World Cup. The boy who hates to lose, lost .
The protagonists of the Superclásico individual of the last decade. Holders of almost all the awards for the best football player that FIFA and France Football have awarded have withdrawn in the fourth game, in the second round. Too early for expectations D & # 39; between them. From your fans. Companies that are generated around him.
This double farewell is also an invitation to a question that beats and has no answer: is the end of an unforgettable era?
The first approach to an answer must see with the competitive imprint of its protagonists: with them, you never know.
The World Cup, step by step
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