Lionel Messi retires

[Anatolia]

Interesting choice! I don't think he won a world cup though. He was playing well before Argentina won their first in 1978... his goals reels are from the black and white tv era!

A legend of course at club level for Real Madrid nonetheless.

Puskas and Cruyff never won WC either.
But Argentinians were always producing world class talents for over a century now. It's just that Austrians, Czechs, Hungarians,Uruguyans, Scots all stopped and they still produced talents. quite amazing really.