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Lionel Messi has a long history of frustrations with the Argentine teamit goes from 2006 Germany World Cup up & # 39; to Russia 2018. The Copa America from Brazil It is presented as one of the last possibilities of the star of Barcelona win a title with Albiceleste.
The 2006 World Cup started well for Rosario, who was able to help and score his first goal in the 6-0 triumph against Serbia and Montenegro. However, he spent most of the competition on the substitutes' bench and from there he had to attend the penalty shootout against Germany in the quarterfinals.
A year later, he returned to the Copa America that was played in Venezuela. Argentina reached the final with a team full of personalities such as Javier Zanetti, Juan Román Riquelme and Carlos Tévez, but sank 3-0 to a Brazil with few stars.
Diego Maradona brought the national team to the World Cup in South Africa in 2010, which was the start of a large group of footballers who could not win a crown. Messi made his debut as captain of the national team in the first-leg match against Greece, but could not convert any goal in the entire tournament, which ended in the worst setback for Argentina, with a 4-0 defeat, again in the quarter-finals. final and again against Germany.
The Copa America 2011 was perhaps the most difficult contest for Lio with the albiceleste shirt. Argentina was local with Sergio Batistia as a coach and had a very weak performance throughout the bout, which resulted in a penalty elimination in the quarterfinals of the match. Uruguay, who would become the champion.
After a difficult fall, arrived in Brazil 2014 the best moment of Messi in the national team. Argentina reached the final of the World Cup in the hands of Alejandro Sabella and found itself in the most painful frustration after losing unjustly 1-0 against Germany.
This team had fallen in love with the Argentine public, but the love did not last. The rounds preceding Chile in the finals of the Copa America in 2015 and 2016 broke the link with the people and the Barcelona player decided to resign. "The selection was over for me," he said after the second defeat.
However, he came back to give Argentina the World Cup qualification with a hat-trick in the last qualifying match against Ecuador. Under the technical direction of Jorge Sampaoli, Albiceleste was disappointed at the World Cup. He also disappointed the performance of Messi, who missed a shot at goal against Iceland and was able to convert that one goal against Nigeria.
After this last frustration, Lionel Messi returned to the resignation, but they convinced him again. Under the direction of Lionel Scaloni, and in a transition period for Albiceleste, the best player in the world will try to break the spell that animates the Copa America of Brazil.
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