Benches of gold

The same day and in just four hours, the two great tsars of global football, Messi and Cristiano, were expelled from Russia. His selections, Argentina and Portugal, were strictly eliminated after falling in their respective duels against France and Uruguay. But the great individual and media defeat was his. The last opportunity (or at least the penultimate) for both of them to raise to heaven the most valuable trophy in the world has gone prematurely. He is suffering from marketing. Shoals of gold.

This was not Messi's contest, whose dramatic drought with the selection has already acquired genuine stigma dyes. Neither that of Cristiano, who left his fourth World Cup by improving his goal goals, but without reaching the record of Eusebio, without being able to qualify in qualifying lap and without taking, in his already clbadic fight with the # 39, Argentine for the Golden Ball, any advantage. The attackers from Barcelona and Real Madrid were bound to zero in this direction and, as if that was not enough, they offered almost nothing the day of his farewell.

C is the captain of the albiceleste who came on the scene. He jumped on the courtyard of the Kazan Arena, eyes lost, trying to find, perhaps, inspiration, ending to badume that the one who was going to leave had to be his party and he knew of the other. immediately that it would not be easy. The French defensive circuit worked well and the chip just disappeared. He started in half-point, but eventually isolate himself, seeing his influence in the game reduced to the maximum

The advantage of early gala has further undermined his mood and the Argentine crack started to walking on the court, lost, visibly disconnected unrecognizable Di Maria's tie and the fortuito goal of Market raised the moral Argentina and also Messi, that, with his equipment in advantage, he had a pair of minutes of lucidity. An oasis, because France reversed the score without problems increasing the frustration of the 10, which in the last section was limited to attending, as a spectator, the broadcast of the ball of the French, and accompany by far the counter-attacks of his team . The final whistle left the court in silence and without making a statement, as it had entered, with a lost and meditative gaze, perhaps, how far is Qatar 2022.

Two hours after the Argentine sinking and 1900 miles away, Christian walked on the Olympic Sochi lawn. But the day marked on the calendar as that of his last World Cup redemption, CR7 has completed one of his worst performances in Russia. Much more similar to the duel against Iran than the one against Spain. And maybe even more inconsequential.

Only five minutes (set with a bow-shot and a play participation against the majority pits of the rostrum) lasted their protagonism, because the iron marked Uruguay and its long stretches L & Defeated team ended up driving him crazy. A striking gesture of solidarity, helping Cavani, wounded, to go to the boxes in the 70s; a horrible shot without meaning at 30 meters, in the 90s; and angry protests at the moment of the addition which earned him a yellow; They finished their terrifying performance. Frustrated, silent and with that poker face that accompanies him in every defeat, the Portuguese leader has left the stadium. And Russia ended up short of gold balls and without czars, but with a world dream, that of France and Uruguay, which lives and continues.