Lionel Messi Wants Rest to Give Best in World Cup

Lionel Messi is a name of living legend in football competition and he is currently the skipper of Argentina national football team.

He wants to participate in upcoming Russia World Cup with his best form and to ensure that he thought to take rest from the schedule. So, according to the report, Lionel Messi wants rest to give best in World Cup from the upcoming friendly match against Nigeria. In next Tuesday, team of Sampaoli will play against the Super Eagle in World Cup warm up match.

With his club Barcelona, Lionel Messi has played all the matches. In all competition, he played already 17 matches and scored 16 goals so far. He is passing so busy time now with the club and his national team and he described his rest from upcoming match with this specially.

He stated earlier than they have talked with Sampaoli already. Messi has played many matches in the season in different competition like Champions League, Copa Del Rey, La Liga. With this he has travelled with the national side as well. But he wants to go to the FIFA World Cup with best way.

To score against Russia where they have played their last warm up match against Russia in Sunday was tough for the Argentine player. But at last in 86th minutes of the game, the match winning goal was scored by Aguero. With the goal he has taken him to the 3rd position in Argentina top scorer list.

With the performance of Manchester City striker, Lionel Messi is so happy. He stated that the score was so brilliant. To score goal was very important for Aguero. He also scored number of goals in club competition with City. Now, he is scoring with the national team.It is undoubtedly very good.

Lionel Messi, who is often regarded as the best footballer ever has just lack of a World Cup title. He has achieved many awards along with five Ballon d'Or titles but due to bad luck, he could not gain much with the national team.So, upcoming World Cup will be very important for him and it also would be his last FIFA World Cup as well.

Team Argentina won total two World Cup titles where one of the under the captain of another Argentine legend Diego Maradona. Now, the time has come for the 3rd one where the team went to final in last World Cup but faced heart broken defeat against Germany.

Besides, Messi led Argentina to the four finals along with last two Copa America consecutively.

Argentina was top favourite in the last Copa America Centenario but unfortunately they could not touch the glory. Messi showed his charm in every matches and took his team to final where they met Chile, their oldest opponent. At the end of the game, both teams could not score and so, penalty shootout made the history.

Messi announced his retirement after the match but for his fans around the World, he came back and made a deadline which will end with the upcoming Russia World Cup 2018.

However, the upcoming season of FIFA World Cup will be executed in 2018 in Russia where the participants list has almost completed.

Team Argentina was about to rule out from the competition but the last qualifying match against Ecuador, the great Lionel Messi showed his magic once again and made a remarkable hat trick there. He also led his team to the World Cup once again. The match was hosted at the home venue of Ecuador where Ecuador was regarded as the favourite.