With the 2022 FIFA World Cup on the horizon, Argentina superstar Lionel Messi has been backed to replicate Michael Jordan's The Last Dance at the tournament.
Messi, who is a record six-time Ballon d'Or winner, has won almost all there is to win at club and individual level, but a 2014 final defeat is the closest he has come to claiming the coveted World Cup trophy with Argentina.
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Former Albiceleste international Lucas Biglia has now compared the 32-year-old's pursuit of football's grandest prize to Michael Jordan's documentary The Last Dance, which focused on the basketball legend's sixth and final NBA championship triumph.
"I finished The Last Dance the other day, it was excellent," Biglia told Spanish radio show FM 94.7.
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"It got me thinking, that in a few years, hopefully, we will be able to watch something similar with our own phenomenon [Messi].
"[We could] learn a mountain of things about his day-to-day. Because you see him train, you see him play but so many things happen on a day-to-day basis that you don't know about, as we see [with Jordan] in the series.
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"The scene that I would like to see in the future is the one when Jordan is hugging the [NBA] trophy and crying. I would like to see that with Messi and the World Cup. That I would like to see. I know what it would mean for him and for the Argentine people."
Messi, who is Argentina's third-most capped and highest-scoring player of all time, will be nearing his 35th birthday by the time the 2022 World Cup comes around, and the tournament is expected to be his last during his playing career.