Lionel Messi's Impulsive Decision To Retire And Argentina's Failure In Copa America

Argentine soccer superstar Lionel Messi. (Wikimedia Commons)

JAKARTA - Lionel Messi is a world soccer superstar. His game with the giant club, Barcelona cannot be underestimated. He was able to win all kinds of individual and team awards. He also repeatedly won the title as the best player in the world.

Problems arise. Messi has never contributed a title for the Argentine national team. Three times Messi and his friends took Argentina to the Copa America final, three times Argentina failed to lift the trophy. Messi also made an impulsive decision: retiring from the national team.

The life path of a person who doesn't know. Lionel Messi also agreed. The man who was born in Rosario, Argentina, June 24, 1987, really likes to play football. His greatness playing the round skin was really tested. However, small posture.

This condition was exacerbated by Messi suffering from growth hormone deficiency. The combination of postures and diseases he had brought in Messi's dream of becoming a professional footballer was hampered. Football clubs in Argentina had offered help. However, it could not really save Messi.

An opportunity from the Catalan club from Spain, Barcelona. The Blaugrana is accepting Messi's intense growth hormone care financing. Messi was allowed to join Barcelona's junior team in December 2000.

The result was brilliant. Hard competition to win the best position in the senior team was able to pass Messi. Messi's performance was impressive. Goals were created a lot from his feet. He began to get offers from various kinds of world clubs like Arsenal. Even though Messi himself still competed in the Spanish Junior League.

Messi also began making his debut in Barcelona's senior team when he was 16 years old in 2003. The pinnacle of love for scholars arrived. Messi was able to become Barcelona's strength in the following seasons.

His brilliant performance emerged in the 2008-2009 season. Messi became Barcelona's goal engine. Messi's great performance also brought Barcelona flooded with titles. At that time Messi and his friends under Pep Guardiola were able to win and win the line: Spanish League, Champions League, and Copa Del Rey (King Cup).

This greatness led Messi to be named the best player in the world in 2009. Messi was later nicknamed the new Maradona. In fact, many who praise Messi can surpass the previous Argentine superstar Maradona's career.

He is nicknamed Maradona baru. However, he is actually more than an Argentine legend. About talent, he can be pitted. He has scored goals that are more or less similar to the goals that Maradona scored in the 1986 World Cup. Title for the club: powerful. This year he presented four titles for his club, Barcelona. The title of best player also holds him.

About his personality, Lionel Messi, 22 years old, is better than Maradona. He appeared calm. Meanwhile, Maradona, at the same age as Messi now, when appearing at the 1982 World Cup, was easily emotional. His hands were lost and his red card was his reward. Messi's life was far from bad gossip," wrote Tempo magazine report entitled Lionel Messi: greater than Maradona (2010).

No one doubts Messi's greatness with Barcelona. That togetherness brought Messi to become the best player in the world. Problems arise. His achievements in the Argentine national team were not as good as his performance at Barcelona.

It may be that Messi is always believed to be able to bring his country ahead. However, the fact is that Messi never presented a title for the national team and the Argentine people. Dewi Fortuna did not want to come to Messi when wearing the blue linear blue Argentine pride.

Messi's most memorable defeat was his inability to bring Argentina to win the Copa America. Messi was able to bring his team forward only until the 2007 Copa America final. Messi and his friends' action was then ran aground by Brazil with a landslide score of 0:3.

The same condition occurred in the 2015 Copa America final. Argentina also met Chile. The score 0:0 lasted until halftime. The match continued with a penalty shootout that made Argentina's dream of lifting the trophy.

The pathetic condition also occurred in the 2016 Copa America final. Argentina again met Chile. The score was like the previous final, 0:0 until it continued to the penalty shootout. Messi is also sure this time he managed to bring Argentina to win. However, Messi's penalty did not come in.

Chile also lifted the trophy again. The failure after failure made Messi fall to the lowest level of his life. Messi was also heavily criticized by the Argentine public. He is considered more loyal to play in Spain with Barcelona than the Tango Team.

Messi considers his career with the Argentine national team to never be honest. Messi also issued an impulsive decision. He chose to retire playing with the Argentine national team in 2016. The decision shocked the whole of Argentina, then the world. Even though the decision was only temporary.

In the dressing room, I think the national team is done for me. That's how I feel right now. It's so sad it happened to me, because I missed a very important penalty kick. This is for the good of everyone. It's not enough just to reach the final and not win.

"It was incredible. The fact is we couldn't win it. This happened again to us, and through penalties. This is our third straight final. We've tried it, and it's not for us," said Messi when he decided to retire from the Argentine national team as quoted by Andrew Das on The New York Times website entitledMessi Say's Argentina His Career Is Over (2016).