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World Cup Today: Morocco vs Belgium Next; Costa Rica Shakes Up Group E - The New York Times

Rory Smith
Nov. 27, 2022, 4:27 a.m. ET
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LUSAIL, Qatar — As he wrapped Enzo Fernández tightly in his arms, Lionel Messi could not help it. His Argentina teammates were screaming, full pelt, toward them. At their back, the stands were melting into a writhing, bubbling soup of sky blue and white. Messi saw it all, and, for the first time in what has felt like a long time, he smiled.

For someone who has spent the better part of two decades delivering moments of rare, soaring pleasure to millions of people on a weekly basis, Messi looks happy surprisingly infrequently. He tends, most of the time, toward the serious. He often looks concentrated, or focused, or intent.

Occasionally, he might look pensive, ruminative. More regularly than he might have liked, particularly in the past few years, he has had cause to look disappointed, either in himself or, more usually, a teammate. And then, of course, there is Messi in despair: the Messi with the sagging shoulders and the hollow eyes, watching his world crash down around him.

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