The exciting moments experienced this Sunday with the consecration of the Argentina team as World Cup champion in Qatar 2022 they are almost infinite. But there was one that pierced them all: the moving embrace between Lionel Messi and his motherCelia Maria Cuccittini.

The meeting took place minutes after the end of the penalty shoot-out against France and the albiceleste he won the World Cup after 36 years.

Lionel Messi was walking on the field of Lusail Stadium looking at the stands – probably trying to size up what was happening- when was it surprised from behind.

It was a woman, who desperately touched his back trying to get his attention. Y 10’s smile when he turns around and seeing that person was his mother said it all.

They both quickly melted into an emotional embrace that lasted long seconds and in which Celia María Cuccittini could not hold back the tearstransfixed by the emotion of the moment.

The image has been registered since hundreds of cameras which followed the Argentine captain and it went viral on social media as one of the most exciting moments of the historic day.

This is how Lionel Messi’s family experienced the final

In the midst of a vibrant final, cameras around the world were on Lionel Messi, who was looking for the long-awaited World Cup with the Argentina national team. And also closely following his familywho lived intensely the instances of the match against France.

During the match, when everything was tense, so did the Messi family postcards left which will remain forever as part of the color that surrounded the third title of the albiceleste.

Antonella Roccuzzoalong with the three children they have with Lionel –Mateo, Thiago and Ciro-he particularly experienced the penalty scored by the captain of the Argentina national team that opened the scoring in the final of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.

Messi’s wife covered her face the moment the captain started kicking from the eleven steps. He just turned around when he heard his children and the whole stadium shouting the first goal for the national team. Kabbalah? If so, it worked.

The hugs multiplied in the special guest box, where the father, mother and family of the star of the team led by Lionel Scaloni were also present.

On the eve of the World Cup final, Thiago, the eldest son of Lionel and Antonela, wrote the lyrics to the hit song of this Cup, the classic of La Mosca and which resounded in every game of the Scaloneta.

Her mother was proud of her passion for the Argentina national team and shared it in an Instagram story.

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