He made Messi cry at the World Cup, now he climbs dangerous mountains as a living

Soccer and life take thousands of turns, one day you are winning the World Cup final, and the next day you are climbing one of the most dangerous mountains in the world. This is the story of Andrea Schurle, who defeated Lionel Messi and Argentina in the 2014 World Cup final, which brought tears to the Argentine.

However, in 2014 he had been one step away from having achieved the same in the World Cup in Brazil. There, Leo also had a magnificent individual performance that earned him the award for best player of the tournament, but on a collective level it did not end with a happy ending. And Alejandro Sabella's Argentina narrowly lost against Germany after having missed important scoring opportunities.

One of the people largely responsible for Messi's unease was André Schürrle, the player in charge of sending the cross to Mario Götze for the only goal of the match. However, the assistant hung up his boots when he was only 30 years old and is now dedicated to mountaineering. In fact, he recently went viral for climbing the summit at Sniezka, the highest point in the Czech Republic at 1,603 meters above sea level, bare-chested and in freezing temperatures.

Schürrle's words:

“The hardest mental and physical thing I've ever done. The last few minutes I couldn't feel anything and I had to find something deep inside me to keep going. An experience I will never forget! -19 degrees, 100 km/h wind in our faces, heavy snow and rain. What I learned... my body and I are stronger than I thought, if I put my mind and soul into it I can do everything,” the German said on his social networks.