Barcelona icon Lionel Messi’s long wait for a first international trophy was ended when\u00a0Angel Di Maria got the only goal as Argentina defeated hosts Brazil in the Copa America final.
\nDi Maria, 33, latched onto Rodrigo De Paul’s searching through ball and elegantly chipped over Ederson’s head in the 22nd minute at Rio De Janeiro’s iconic Maracana stadium. This delightful strike would prove enough to\u00a0bring glory to their celebrated international compatriot after four previous losses in major finals, plus witnessed Los Albiceleste lift silverware for the first time since 1993.
\nMessi – playing in his 10th competition with Argentina – fell to the ground in joy upon the final whistle, before being mobbed by team-mates and thrown into the air.
\nAttention will now centre on\u00a0a contract extension at Barcelona. The 34-year-old is, technically, a free agent.
\nHere’s how we covered it on social media:
\nA NEW MESSI TATTOO IS NEEDED
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\nADD ONE TO THE TROPHY CABINET
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\nGOAT?
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\nFROM ONE ICON, TO THE NEXT
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\nTRY AND TRY AGAIN
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Barcelona icon Lionel Messi\u2019s long wait for a first international trophy was ended when\u00a0Angel Di Maria got the only goal as Argentina defeated hosts Brazil in the Copa America final.
\nDi Maria, 33, latched onto Rodrigo De Paul\u2019s searching through ball and elegantly chipped over Ederson\u2019s head in the 22nd minute at Rio De Janeiro\u2019s iconic Maracana stadium. This delightful strike would prove enough to\u00a0bring glory to their celebrated international compatriot after four previous losses in major finals, plus witnessed Los Albiceleste lift silverware for the first time since 1993.
\nMessi \u2013 playing in his 10th competition with Argentina \u2013 fell to the ground in joy upon the final whistle, before being mobbed by team-mates and thrown into the air.
\nAttention will now centre on\u00a0a contract extension at Barcelona. The 34-year-old is, technically, a free agent.
\nHere\u2019s how we covered it on social media:
\nA NEW MESSI TATTOO IS NEEDED
\n View this post on Instagram A post shared by Sport360 (@sport360)
\nADD ONE TO THE TROPHY CABINET
\n View this post on Instagram A post shared by Sport360 (@sport360)
\nGOAT?
\n View this post on Instagram A post shared by Sport360 (@sport360)
\nFROM ONE ICON, TO THE NEXT
\n View this post on Instagram A post shared by Sport360 (@sport360)
\nTRY AND TRY AGAIN
\n View this post on Instagram A post shared by Sport360 (@sport360)<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98450"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98451,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98450\/revisions\/98451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}