Unstoppable Messi hits another high with Selección’s solid support

The air inside the Estadio Monumental in Buenos Aires does not simply vibrate when Lionel Messi touches the ball; it exhales, a collective release of tension that has defined the Argentine psyche for nearly two decades.

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