For the primary time in historical past, there are world champion gamers enjoying in the Portuguese League. Nico Otamendi and Enzo Fernández, footballers from Benfica, had been among the many most utilized by Lionel Scaloni in the champion Argentina, which has two different well-known “outdated males” from the Portuguese championship: Marcos Acuña (Sporting 2017-20) and Angel Di María (Benfica 2007-10).
Of this lot, there may be one who stands out from the group: Enzo Fernández, honored with the Qatar 2022 Young Player of the Year award. The midfielder made a powerful assertion all through the match, having began as second alternative for the midfielder, earlier than. safe the title for the third recreation, towards Poland, to not let the standing slip away. At 21, the Argentine provides one other layer of status to a path of affirmation that can make it (much more) tough for him to proceed in Portuguese football in the close to future.
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Enzo was not the one one, nonetheless, to deserve a person point out from FIFA among the many new world champions. At the helm is the inevitable Lionel Messi. He, who had already been distinguished because the best participant of the 2014 World Cup, repeated the feat, however now with the world champion trophy to show
It was an incredible journey for the Argentine quantity 10, from the primary recreation (defeat towards Saudi Arabia), in which he scored the primary objective, to the ultimate, which ended with two extra (and even a penalty reworked into the tiebreaker of 11). meters). In complete, the PSG star completed the competitors with seven, solely surpassed by Kylian Mbappé, the match’s high scorer.
This was additionally a personal duel inside the greatest conflict that was Argentina-France. Two objectives from Messi, three from Mbappé (to which he additionally added the utmost penalty transformed into the decisive tie breaker) and the highest scorer trophy for the striker, additionally from PSG, who in 2018, in Russia, had been chosen because the best younger participant. in the world
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Mbappé was, in a approach, the French exception in the midst of Argentina’s quasi-hegemony. This is as a result of the award for the best goalkeeper ended up in the palms of Emiliano Martínez. The goalkeeper of Aston Villa (a membership that, for the primary time in historical past, was represented in the ultimate of a World Cup, as was the case of Brighton, owned by Alexis Mac Allister) was instrumental in totally different phases of the “albiceleste” route. and proved once more that sanctions are a specialty.
After avoiding a sure objective in the ultimate – with a superb stretch when Kolo Muani appeared alone in the 119th minute – he saved Kingsley Coman’s shot in the penalty shootout and strengthened his affect in this space. He, who had already dressed as a “hero” in the identical circumstances, in the quarter-finals towards Croatia. At the age of 30, from the height of his 1.95m, Emiliano, who didn’t prevail at Arsenal, reached the height of his profession.
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