Messi’s nice gesture with Arturo Vidal at the center of the national team’s celebrations

Arthur Vidal made a short trip to Barcelona. He lasted just two seasons in Catalonia, but in that short period of time he managed to make a beautiful friendship with Lionel Messi. Recently, the Chilean midfielder has been attentive to the consecration of the Argentina national team at the World Cup in Qatar and, now, there was a new (virtual) meeting between the two.

Leo and Arturo shared a squad from October 2018 to September 2020, when the king left the Blaugrana and left for Inter. This Tuesday, after a long time, they saw their faces again. By video call, of course.

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The Argentine champion, before the friendly duel against Curaçao, dedicated some of his free time to talking with his colleague. And he made a nice gesture: he surprised the Vidal family. “Thank you for making my loves happy. Thank you, alien brother”wrote the King in a story shared on his Instagram account, where Leo can be seen wearing the national team shirt in full concentration.

The Selection greeted with a victory

The Argentina national team put the finishing touches to their world title celebrations with a spectacular goal and a sensational 7-0 victory over their Curaçao counterparts with a hat-trick of Lionel Messi who passed the bar of 100 celebrations with the albiceleste jacket.

In addition to goals from their captain, Nicolás González, Enzo Fernández, Ángel Di María, from a penalty, and Gonzalo Montiel completed the victory in a match played at the Madre de Ciudades stadium in Santiago del Estero.

Argentina, in this way, debuted its third star on its shield as world champion with a double victory on this FIFA date: last Thursday 2-0 against Panama in Buenos Aires and this one 7-0 against Curacao in Santiago del Estero.

The brand new number one in the ranking of Fifa Starting on April 1, he had a performance in which he was able to level up his Caribbean rival.

Argentina had a puzzling first 20 minutes in which the visiting team moved the ball and turned the home side’s head.

However, during this period Lautaro Martínez had two key options to open the scoring, another from Lionel Messi and one from Nicolás González who called for Eloy Room.

In the 20th minute the first big celebration with a pass from Giovani Lo Celso to Lionel Messi who hooks and kicks with his right foot to beat Room and score his hundredth celebration with the Albiceleste shirt.

Two minutes later, Anita managed to block a header from Pezzella in the box, but in the rebound Nicolás González jumped higher than Eloy Room and connected the ball into the net.

With this advantage on the scoreboard in five minutes came a flurry of goals from the Albiceleste: in the 32nd minute a combination of Nicolás González with Messi ended with a definition from the captain, two minutes later Messi enabled Enzo Fernández who from the edge of the box increased and in the 37th minute a run by Messi ended with another great definition of the maximum reference of the team.

In the complement there were many changes in both teams and Argentina was slow to increase because only in the 78th minute, Ángel Di María from a penalty put the sixth and the final touch came in the 86th minute after a combination by Di María with Dybala and a cross behind for the definition of Gonzalo Montiel, author of the last penalty in the coronation in Qatar 2022.

Then there was a final party at the farewell of this team to its audience at the Madre de Ciudades stadium in just over a week with pure Albiceleste emotion.