On June 16 2006 I was in Gelsenkirchen to watch Lionel Messi, 18, make his World Cup debut with a wonderful cameo vs Serbia & Montenegro.
Twenty years on I was in Kansas City to watch him kick off his sixth World Cup with a hat-trick vs Algeria. Always a privilege
www.nytimes.com/athletic/736...
If this, finally, surely, is to be his last World Cup - Messi is not going to go quietly. It's a privilege to still be watching him
