2022 world cup will be the last for Messi

World football star and Argentina international Lionel Messi has stated that this year’s world cup in Qatar will be his last.

Come the 2026 world cup, which will be hosted by Canada, the United States of America and Mexico, Messi would have been 39 years old.

As of now, Messi holds the Argentine records for caps (164) as well as goals (90).

The Paris Saint-Germain striker said this year’s world cup tournament will be his fifth and final chance to win the cup for his home country for the first time since 1986.

Messi told Latin American streaming service Star+ , per Argentine outlet TN: “If it is my last World Cup? Yes, surely yes, surely yes.

“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.”