Qatar 2022 will be my last FIFA World Cup, announces Lionel Messi

Argentina legend Lionel Messi will play his last FIFA World Cup at Qatar 2022, the forward confirmed on Thursday.

The Argentina captain confirmed the news that no football fan would have wanted to hear. "If it is my last World Cup? Yes, surely yes, surely yes," Messi told Star+.

"I feel good physically, I can have a very good pre-season this year that I hadn't done the year before because of how everything went, I started training late, playing without rhythm, with the tournament already started, then



I went to the national team, when I came back I had an injury and I never finished starting."

"I am counting the days for the World Cup, the truth is, there is a little anxiety of wanting it to be now and the nerves of saying well, we're here, what's going to happen, it's the last one, how is it going to go and yes, on the one hand we can't wait for it to arrive and on the other the shit of wanting it to go away fine."

Argentina will begin its FIFA World Cup campaign against Saudi Arabia on November 22.