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Argentina world champion for the third time: beats France on penalties after a legendary and endless match

Fabulous final with continuous reversals in the face: it ends 3 to 3 and decides the penalty roulette - Messi, fundamental in the match with two goals and in the penalties, thus crowns the dream of chasing away the ghost of Maradona and winning a World Cup for the first time – Disappointed the French

Argentina world champion for the third time: beats France on penalties after a legendary and endless match

It was one world show and the triumph of Lionel Messi!

THEArgentina wins and becomes World Champion after one legendary match finished after the penalty shoot-out lottery (total score 7-5).

An overflowing is not enough Kylian Mbappe author of a hat-trick to stop the South American national team led by a magnificent Lionel Messi.

Messi guides and leads Argentina to victory with a sumptuous performance topped off with two very heavy goals. And finally the victory with the national team definitively consecrates him in the Olympus of the gods of football.

Third victory at the World Cup for the South Americans after victories in 1978 and 1986.

For the France a lot of bitterness remains after straightening a game that had seen it succumb for the initial 80 minutes. Mbappè's brace in two minutes had equalized the initial double Argentine lead scored by Messi (from a penalty) and by Of Maria and dragged the game to extra time.

In the extra 30 minutes other great emotions with the new Argentine advantage signed by the Argentine "flea" equalized a few minutes later by the French striker. For Mbappe so much personal glory with the hat-trick in the final: It was, in fact, since 1966 with the hat-trick of the Englishman Geoff hurst (that of the ghost goal) on Germany that a footballer did not score three goals in a world final.

In the final of extra time two sensational goals saved by their respective goalkeepers and a match that ends with the lottery of penalties.

From the penalty spot, the Argentines made no mistake. France, on the other hand, pays for mistakes from the penalty spot Coman e Chouameni. Montiel scores the decisive penalty and finally the Argentine party that has been waiting for 36 years can start.

Il ghost of Maradona is over, now it's time to praise the legend of Lionel Messi.

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