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Lamine Yamal ‘completes football’ at 19 as Argentina betray Messi
Argentina coach Lionel Scaloni, like Messi trying to win a second successive World Cup, became highly emotional when asked whether this was the legendary attacker's final game in the tournament - while also reflecting on his own future with his contract due to expire in December.
Argentina were the first team in the tournament's history not to have a shot in 90 minutes of a World Cup final.
He also became - along with 19-year-old Spain team-mate Pau Cubarsi - just the fourth and fifth teenagers to start a World Cup final and win, after Pele for Brazil in 1958, Italy defender Giuseppe Bergomi in 1982 and Kylian Mbappe with France in 2018.
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