2010 Messi World cup

With Messi at 23 and quickly setting up himself as one of the best players ever of football, South Africa 2010 was the main global competition to highlight the Argentine as one of its greatest stars. Likewise, Leo had collaborated with none other than his forerunner at No.10, Diego Maradona, the 1986 World Cup victor giving a turbulent yet in fact engaging nearness on the sidelines as Argentina mentor.

The Barcelona wizard, in any case, was at that point feeling the weight of conveying his country alone. Fluctuating playmaker Riquelme had stopped worldwide football the earlier year and at 31 was rashly good and gone, denying Messi of an inventive organization that had demonstrated so impressive in the 2008 Olympics. The main help given was a maturing Juan Sebastian Veron, while at focus forward a 20-year-old Gonzalo Higuain at any rate guaranteed a lot of risk before the net.

Argentina's liabilities were not obvious amid a splendid gathering stage. Messi was denied over and again by Nigeria, seeing four shots spared, however an early objective from Gabriel Heinze by the by observed Maradona's men securely past the Africans in a 1-0 win

Messi at that point played a part in each of the four of his side's objectives in a devastating 4-1 prevail upon South Korea, an amusement in which Higuain gotten Argentina's first World Cup cap trap since Gabriel Batistuta's triple against Jamaica in 1998. His own objective, in any case, stayed slippery, and the example would rehash itself in a Group C dead elastic to cut off the first round when Martin Demichelis and Martin Palermo found the net against Greece.

The last 16 saw business as usual, as Messi came to conspicuousness as a supplier instead of a scorer. Leo set up Tevez for Argentina's opener, with Carlitos and Higuain including two more in a normal 3-1 prevail upon Mexico. The wheels would then fall off in fantastic mold, yet again against Germany: a tousled, shell-stunned group was whipped 4-0, with Messi as weak as any other person to stop a harming defeat. By and by La Pulga was coming back from a World Cup in the quarters, without an objective to his name.