Tariq Panja

The one team I think will not be there at the end

Lo siento, amigos.

Is Argentina?

You kind of got to hope it's his last because you want to remember these guys at their very best, at their very peak, not creaking old men just trying to break records for playing in World Cups.

I think it was inevitable he was going to play in the World Cup because...

He's still adored by Argentina.

He still wants to play.

And I think if Messi says he wants to play, he gets to play.

And he's still very good at football.

Let's see how it rolls.

But this is a very, I think, old team, an aging team.

Yeah.

There's too many players who played in the previous World Cups who are going to be with Argentina.

I think this might be one tournament too many for a lot of those guys.

And I think Argentina could lose and be eliminated against the first good team they come up against.

I think, quite frankly, we're never going to see anything like this again.

This diminutive magician, sort of with floppy hair, arrived as a teenager at Barcelona and wowed the world for two decades.

He doesn't look like an athlete, yet he's on the field doing these things that we can't imagine and producing magic week after week.

The ball is at his mercy.

I don't think we will see the like of this again, certainly not in terms of its longevity.