November 14, 2022: The two meet once more for the first semi-final of the Qatar World Cup at the Lusail Stadium. 16 football years have passed during this time. Captain’s band shines on the left hand of both of them. 2 stars who have gone from being poster boys to rocking cameo roles to the top of a nation. If Messi is the soul of Argentina, Modric is the lifeblood of Croatia. For football fans in the small country of Croatia with a population of only 4 million, he is as big as Messi. 2 names who have played in the same era, in El Clásico star wars with Barcelona and Real Madrid; Messi and Modric. Those who were able to see the handshake and hug of the two before the kickoff of the World Cup semi-finals are lucky. Because there may never be another moment like this in world football.
It’s been written who will win the World Cup: Zlatan Ibrahimovic
Swedish star Zlatan Ibrahimovic said that it has already been written who will win the Qatar World Cup. Ibrahimovic said that Argentina are in good form in Qatar and therefore they will be the World Cup champions.
He added that the legendary Lionel Messi, who performed well for Argentina till the semi-final, will lift the crown. Ibrahimovic said he believes Messi, a seven-time Ballon d’Or winner, can lift his first World Cup trophy this year.
I think it’s already been written who will be the champions. I know you know who I’m talking regarding. “I think Argentina’s superstar Messi will lift the trophy,” Zlatan said.
Ibrahimovic was Messi’s teammate at Barcelona. The star and Sweden might not qualify for the World Cup this time.
Meanwhile, Messi and his team are preparing for the final. Messi will enter the finals with a strong desire to win the World Cup for his country before he retires.
Messi said to the media that he has to wait for the next World Cup for many more years and because he does not know if he will be able to play then, he wants to win this World Cup title and return happily. Messi was speaking at a press conference following the win once morest Croatia.
Messi had earlier hinted that the one in Qatar would be the last World Cup of his career.
However, reports emerged later that if the player might not win the World Cup for the country before retiring, he might play in the 2026 World Cup as well.
Messi said that this will be his last World Cup following the semi-final once morest Croatia yesterday.
Content Highlights: Ibrahimovic regarding Lionel Messi
Akhil S. Muralidharan
In the valley of the Khazak, the feet are rolling in the wastelands, and the dust is flying. The birds in the sky shake the blackbirds. Allapicha Mollaka’s, Nizamali’s Khazak is ahead. Time flies like a ball towards the goal post. The children circle the field like infinite stars in the Milky Way. Argentina won with Messi’s goal. That boy from Rosario Street is standing in the middle of the field waiting for the world to reach out. The city and the countryside are filled with the excitement of football and nothing else.
The legend of Malayalam literature went to the land when the World Cup hype was at its peak in Qatar. The journey is pleasant in a state of extreme vigilance, free from crowds and noise. Lionel Messi, the son of a factory sweeper named Celia Maria Cuccitini, was still on his mind. He glides and splashes across the field like a goat wandering the meadow.
In the valley of the Khazak, the feet are rolling in the wastelands, and the dust is flying. The birds in the sky shake the blackbirds. Allapicha Mollaka’s, Nizamali’s Khazak is ahead. Time flies like a ball towards the goal post. The children circle the field like infinite stars in the Milky Way. Argentina won with Messi’s goal. That boy from Rosario Street is standing in the middle of the field waiting for the world to reach out. The city and the countryside are filled with the excitement of football and nothing else.
The legend of Malayalam literature went to the land when the World Cup hype was at its peak in Qatar. The journey is pleasant in a state of extreme vigilance, free from crowds and noise. Lionel Messi, the son of a factory sweeper named Celia Maria Cuccitini, was still on his mind. He glides and splashes across the field like a goat wandering the meadow.
The hype that was on television and across the seas is ending. As thin as thin. Meanwhile a news flash on mobile. Messi has declared the World Cup final as his last match following defeating Croatia in the semi-final yesterday. He is slowly returning to being the best football player of his era.
After reaching Palakkad city at noon from Ottapalam, we tried to find a good restaurant. Finally found that too and thought to take an auto and go to Tasrak. A driver took us to Khazak with an auto charge of around 200 rupees.
On the field, Hamies is guarding the goal like Higuita. Children of the new generation of Kazakhs are defenses. The cries of raceless blackbirds cease there.
As our auto sped along a small canal-side road off the regular bus route, it looked like something out of a Miyazaki movie. A small road with no space even for oncoming vehicles. Blackberries all around… a dry canal. Ten to twenty minutes to Tasrak. There are houses in front of Nhatupura. Behind is a long expanse of vast fields. The cultivated land lies fallow following harvesting. Ordinary people herding cattle. Blackberries in between. But Chetali’s valley in Khazak legend has faded away as an extraordinary experience of the past.
Majeed, a 70-year-old custodian of Nhatupura, said: “People have cut down all the black trees fearing that the government will take over the land”. From the history of the Kazakhs, the Karampanas have descended. The threat of displacement is part of history.
Majeed opened the building. More than 150 years old Nhatupura made of earth. Inside, the room where Vijayan stayed for twenty days is full of photographs. In other rooms are cartoons drawn during his lifetime.
A sculpture of Vijan stands on a champaka tree in the courtyard lawn looking at Nhatupura. Majeed said Vijayan was seven years old when he came there. Vijayan came to meet his elder sister who teaches in a one-teacher school and was mesmerized by the nature of Khazak. The legend of living relatives sprouted in Kazakh soil. It had a world-renowned history.
The scream of children with the ball rolling on the field, the scream of time, the world and the universe are freed from consciousness there. A kind of emptiness.
I noticed their team name. Kazakh FC A new generation is playing on Kazakh soil. I don’t know if they remember Vijayan. No car was found. We walked one and a half kilometers. At the junction where the road ends, there is a sign that says “Vayamambalam”. A gate built in rock. It is covered by banyan trees and a small bridge. The same place where Ravi landed in Khazak.
After the defeat once morest Argentina for the semifinals of the Qatar 2022 World Cup, Luke Modric was full of praise with the performance of Lionel Messi, He thanked the Argentine public for the applause when he was replaced and criticized the arbitration.
“Hopefully (Messi) win this World Cup, he is the best player in history and he deserves it. He is doing a great World Cup, he is showing his quality and greatness in every game”, Modric said following the 3-0 win at the Lusail stadium.
The Croatian captain thanked the support of the Argentine fans, who applauded him when he was replaced off the pitch: “If the Argentine fans have applauded me, I can only thank them, They have created an incredible environment.”
Modric acknowledged that Argentina was “a fair winner of the game” and that “deserved to win”but pointed once morest the Italian referee for having taken the penalty with which Lionel Messi opened the account.
“I don’t like to talk regarding referees, but this is one of the worst. I don’t have a good memory of him, he’s a disaster. It wasn’t criminal for me.” said the star of Real Madrid who will probably play his last game with the Croatian team next Saturday in the game for third and fourth place.
Despite the criticism he had once morest Orsato, the Croatian emblem said that he did not want to detract from Argentina and that “the penalty killed” the team led by Zlatko Dalic. “You have to recover for third place and win that match”, added Modric.
Finally, he left a message of hope for Lionel Messi for the Qatar 2022 World Cup final: “I wish him the best of luck in the final, he has greatness.”