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Lionel Messi bids Argentina adieu with goal and two assists in 3-0 win over Benin – as it happened
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PUBLISHEDOct 7, 2026, 1:41 AM
What the source reports
The 2022 World Cup champion was given a raucous sendoff with plenty of pomp and circumstance. Read Pablo Iglesias Maurer’s minute-by-minute report.
Guardian reader Paul reached out via email and is apparently deep in the comments section of a 20-year-old Messi article we published here at the Guardian. I can only hope Guardian reader “snafuclarke” has fully recovered from such a scorchingly terrible take: don’t kid…
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