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It was déjà vu all over again. The defending Copa America champions, Chile, met Argentina in a repeat of the final last year on Sunday afternoon, and after an epic battle that had both South American teams down to ten men and into extra time, it was still nil, nil. And when the penalty whistle was blown at the game at the MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, the eyes of the world – or at least one planetary eye, the other being on the Euro Cup games taking place across the Atlantic in France – were on only one man.
Lionel Messi, considered to be the greatest football player in the world (other than the temperamental and often hard to like Cristiano ‘CR7’ of Portugal). The rub, though, was that Leo Messi has never lifted a Copa America trophy, let alone the World Cup, and until he does, he will never join the hallowed duopoly of Pele, generally considered the greatest player of all time; or that of his countryman and 2010 Argentine coach, Diego Armando Maradona.
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