Bye bye United States, the decision of Lionel Messi to retire from soccer shocks Inter Miami

Lionel Messi is already considered by most soccer fans to be the greatest player to ever play the sport. After winning the FIFA World Cup this idea seems to have become unanimous, but the player revealed what would have happened if he did not manage to be world champion and left everyone speechless.

Lionel Messi always said it, he would change absolutely all his titles, individual and at the club level, to win a trophy with the Argentine National Team. He had a lot of hard times in his home country because of it, but he finally made it and boy did he do it big.

However, already with the prospect of victory, Lionel Messi confessed that if he had not managed to beat France in that final he would have retired from international football! What a misfortune from which we football fans are not saved. Luckily, this all remains in a "what would have been" and remains light years from reality.

World Cup 2026?

What we are clear about is that we will see Lionel Messi compete at the highest level with his team in the 2024 Copa America; On the side of the next World Cup, according to Lionel himself, he will not play it, but after all, he had said something very similar after finishing Russia 2018... the rest is history.