He broke Messi's dreams in the World Cup, now he pays the worst karma and has a fatal time

Lionel Messi's career in the Argentine team has become more joyful since Lionel Scaloni took the reins of the national team. With Pujato's on the bench, the 'Flea' not only won the 2021 Copa América, but also added a Finalissima title and put the finishing touch with the World Cup in Qatar 2022. However, prior to that his experience with the Albiceleste had been full of frustrations.

After what was the gold medal in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, Leo had to suffer several eliminations and defeats in finals in both World Cups and America's Cups. In fact, the unease was such in 2016 that Messi came to submit his resignation to the National Team. Although he would end up coming back.

Precisely his last bitter pill prior to the appointment of Scaloni was in Russia 2018, when Jorge Sampaoli's national team qualified scraping in the group stage and then said goodbye in the round of 16 at the hands of the future champion, France. Now, one of the great protagonists of that failure lost the category in the Premier League.

Willy Caballero descended with Southampton

The Argentine goalkeeper was marked for life by his blunder against Croatia in the group stage of Russia 2018. That match ended 3-0 in favor of the Europeans and that result was the emotional blow that ended up collapsing said Selection . This season, his team was relegated with two dates remaining with a total of 66 goals conceded in 36 games, although Willy's last game was on January 28 against Blackpool for the FA Cup.