Lionel Messi speaks on playing at the 2026 World Cup

There has been a burning question on the minds of football fans around the world as regards whether Lionel Messi will play at the 2026 FIFA World Cup.

Lionel Messi was speaking in an interview during the last international break where he was asked if he would play at the next World Cup. According to him, he is taking each day as it comes and won't be making a hasty decision.

"Well, everything happens for a reason in life now. I am just trying to live day by day. Now I feel very good, when that period comes we'll see. I don't want to say anything, I'm enjoying everything day by day. "

He also was asked about what was left for him to win.

"What's left for me in football? Thank God I can say that I've achieved every dream I had. My biggest dream was to win the World Cup. have won everything for club of my life in Barça, and I also won titles in PSG. I can't ask for anything else. The end is near, and I'm enjoying and valuing every moment as maximum as possible. Argentina and Barcelona are my home. Today, I am also in a place where I feel very happy, a new stage in my life."

Messi is the most decorated footballer in the world, having won the highest number of trophies in history, a feat that has never being achieved by any footballer both past and present. The most significant of them will be when he led Argentina to winning the World Cup at the 2022 competition hosted in Qatar.

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