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The day that Lionel Messi made his World Cup d\u00e9but, on June 16, 2006, I was in elementary school. I had never set foot in Argentina, and I didn\u2019t speak a word of Spanish. The game was against a then unified Serbia and Montenegro. Argentina wore dark blue. I knew very little about the country that my grandparents had left behind, in 1964, for the United States\u2014only that on that day, at home in the New York suburbs, I somehow belonged to it.<\/p>\n

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Messi\u2019s first World Cup was my first World Cup\u2014not the first one I had lived through but the first one that I remember. He was almost nineteen (the number he wore on his back), and I was nine. I like to tell people the story of how, a few months earlier, my dad had gone up onto the roof of our house in Pelham and dismantled our old TV antenna, installing in its place a cable package of Spanish-language channels, so that we could hear announcers marvel at Barcelona\u2019s teen-age phenom in his native tongue. But nothing could have prepared us for Messi\u2019s greatness. Against Serbia and Montenegro, in the group stage, Messi came on as a sub in the seventy-fourth minute, with Argentina up 3\u20130. The press had already anointed him the heir apparent to Diego Maradona; an emotional Maradona was filmed in the stands, with his arms in the air, as Messi entered the game. Ten minutes later, Messi assisted Carlos T\u00e9vez on a fifth goal, and then, he scored the sixth himself. He played in each of the next two games in the tournament\u2014a goalless draw against the Netherlands and an overtime win against Mexico in the round of sixteen\u2014only to be left on the bench by then coach Jos\u00e9 P\u00e9kerman in Argentina\u2019s quarterfinal loss against Germany. P\u00e9kerman\u2019s decision is now considered by some to have been a historic mistake, and, for the next twenty years, Messi played every minute of every Argentina World Cup game, until this summer.<\/p>\n

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For many families like mine, the twenty-six World Cup games that Messi played from 2006 to 2022, totalling more than twenty-three hundred minutes of game time, are remembered more like life events. Watching highlights on YouTube, I can easily recall the precise circumstances of each match\u2014the cousin\u2019s bat mitzvah we nearly missed in upstate New York (Argentina vs. Nigeria, in 2010); the summer internship in Manhattan I snuck out of (also Argentina vs. Nigeria, oddly enough, in 2018); the family meals at La Fusta, an Argentinean steak house in Elmhurst, Queens, whenever my dad couldn\u2019t get home from work in time for the games (Argentina vs. Switzerland, in 2014; Argentina vs. Poland, in 2022; and others). Keeping time via mundiales<\/em> is a very Argentinean experience, one that I inherited without fully realizing it: in his basement, my grandfather\u2014who is now ninety-seven years old, and who was born six blocks from the Boca Juniors stadium in Buenos Aires\u2014has a stash of VHS tapes of Argentina games from World Cups dating back to the nineteen-seventies, when my grandparents first moved to the house in the Hudson Valley where they still live today.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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After my first World Cup, my understanding of my grandparents\u2019 home country became one-dimensional, existing solely through the lens of soccer. By Messi\u2019s second World Cup, hosted by South Africa in 2010, I\u2019d started taking Spanish classes at school, and I noticed that, for the first time, I could actually understand some of what the announcers were saying, like invisible ink becoming legible. The growing legend of Messi slowly revealed itself: that he had left Argentina for Spain at just thirteen years old to join Barcelona\u2019s youth academy; that he himself continued to negotiate his own Argentinean-ness as an emigrant, even as he became the most famous Argentinean in the world. After Argentina\u2019s underwhelming showing in 2010\u2014Messi didn\u2019t score that year, with an inexperienced Maradona as coach\u2014many pundits in the country began to criticize him harshly, calling him pecho fr\u00edo<\/em>, slang for someone lacking heart.<\/p>\n

Mostly, though, it was the euphoric game calls that stuck with me. Kicking a ball around with my younger brothers, in our back yard or on the carpeted floor of our basement, I would narrate our games and penalty shootouts in my own limited Spanish, impersonating the iconic calls of Argentinean announcers I recognized\u2014such as Mariano Closs (\u201catenci\u00f3n!\u201d<\/em>), Sebasti\u00e1n (Pollo) Vignolo (\u201cc\u00e1ntalo, c\u00e1ntalo, c\u00e1ntalo!\u201d<\/em>), and Walter Nelson (\u201cta-tan, ta-tan!\u201d<\/em>)\u2014using gibberish and invented words to fill in the gaps of what I didn\u2019t know how to say. We would take off our shirts and run up and down our dead-end street when we scored winning goals. In my own imprecise way I even tried to Hispanicize our American names, so that we would fit more seamlessly into the \u201cArgentinean\u201d narrations: \u201cJordani, pase para Jonathani, ahora para Miguelitooooo\u00a0.\u00a0.\u00a0. c\u00e1ntalo, c\u00e1ntalo, c\u00e1ntalo! Goooool!<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

In this way, the four-year cycles came and went, and I grew up in between. I kept watching soccer in Spanish, and my world expanded. One channel aired a popular Sunday-night highlights show from Argentina\u2019s domestic league, called F\u00fatbol de Primera, which not only introduced me to up-and-coming players who might someday make the national team but also gave me a mental map of the country\u2019s cities and neighborhoods. Indeed, to understand the selecci\u00f3n<\/em> is to understand the trajectories of each of its players, and to understand an Argentinean player\u2019s journey it is impossible to ignore the club where he came of age.<\/p>\n

I travelled to Argentina for the first time shortly after what was arguably Argentina\u2019s most heartbreaking World Cup loss yet\u2014in Brazil, 2014, an electric and joy-filled campaign, when a generation of stars at the peak of their powers (Messi, Javier Mascherano, Sergio Ag\u00fcero, Gonzalo Higua\u00edn) were defeated by Germany in the hundred-and-thirteenth minute of the final. I was nearing the end of high school, and, by that point, I had spent an entire childhood trying to imagine what Argentina was actually like. When we landed in Buenos Aires that December, I found myself staring at the domestic-departures screen at the airport. I know these places,<\/em> I thought. There was Mendoza, where Godoy Cruz played; Bah\u00eda Blanca, home of Olimpo; Rosario, where both \u00c1ngel Di Mar\u00eda\u2019s Central and Messi\u2019s boyhood club, Newell\u2019s Old Boys, were crosstown rivals. As we walked the streets of the capital with my grandparents, I saw buses bound for neighborhoods and suburbs that also sounded familiar, and I couldn\u2019t help but feel that even though I\u2019d never set foot in Parque Patricios (Hurac\u00e1n), N\u00fa\u00f1ez (River Plate), or Liniers (V\u00e9lez Sarsfield) myself, I had already gleaned an essential part of their identity from more than five thousand miles away.<\/p>\n

I wondered if I could say the same for my own. How much can you truly know about a place, even your own heritage, if you have only ever experienced it from a distance? It turns out, when the country is Argentina and your cultural currency is soccer, quite a lot; the neighborhood clubs, the players, the selecci\u00f3n<\/em> are all so infused into the national identity that they are almost inextricable from it. In the Argentinean dialect of Spanish, there are words and phrases entirely derived from soccer references, and I realized that, as the years went on, I was able to start many conversations in Argentina purely on the granular detail with which I paid attention to the game. I visited any local stadium I could, convincing groundskeepers in La Plata, Mendoza, and Banfield to open the gates for me simply because I had come this far. With every match, every video, every visit, my accent became more Argentinean. Back home in the States, I felt increasingly comfortable speaking in Spanish with my grandparents, who had always spoken only English to me.<\/p>\n

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As I grew into my own Argentinean-ness, Messi\u2019s relationship with his home country was growing more complex. I was at the Copa Am\u00e9rica Centenario, in New Jersey, in the summer of 2016, when he famously missed a penalty in the final against Chile, and subsequently resigned from the national team after Argentina\u2019s third straight finals loss in as many years. \u201cSe termin\u00f3 para m\u00ed la Selecci\u00f3n<\/em>,\u201d Messi told reporters after the game, and I understood the gravity of his words. I had never known an Argentinean national team without Messi, and, apparently, many others felt the same: following his announcement, hundreds of Argentineans took to the streets in Buenos Aires, and tens of thousands more signed online petitions, begging him to reconsider. The same pundits who had once criticized him offered their apologies live on television. After nearly five months, Messi made his comeback during the 2018 World Cup qualifiers, scoring a stunning free kick against Colombia in Buenos Aires; a year later, in the final game of the qualifiers, he scored a come-from-behind hat trick against Ecuador in Quito, sending Argentina to the tournament.<\/p>\n

Despite Messi\u2019s return, Argentina eventually crashed out of the 2018 World Cup in Russia, losing in the round of sixteen to France, who would eventually win it all. The national team needed to reset. The manager Jorge Sampaoli left, setting up his assistant, Lionel Scaloni\u2014one of Messi\u2019s older teammates in 2006\u2014to take over. At first, Scaloni was considered an interim coach. Instead, he led a generational change, surrounding the remaining heavyweights Messi, Di Mar\u00eda, and Nicol\u00e1s Otamendi with a fresh crop of young players\u2014many of whom were born around the same time I was, and had similarly idolized Messi since his 2006 d\u00e9but, which, for some, was the first World Cup they could remember. Buoyed by the likes of Rodrigo De Paul, Lautaro Mart\u00ednez, and Emiliano (Dibu) Mart\u00ednez\u2014and, a bit later, Juli\u00e1n \u00c1lvarez, Alexis Mac Allister, and Enzo Fern\u00e1ndez\u2014Argentina won the 2021 Copa Am\u00e9rica in Brazil, the 2022 Finalissima in London, and, finally, the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.<\/p>\n

After the greatest triumph of them all, Messi moved to the United States to play for Inter Miami, a new Major League Soccer club owned by David Beckham and the Mas brothers, Jorge and Jos\u00e9, Cuban American businessmen based in Florida. Messi was reportedly offered a contract worth about a hundred and fifty million dollars, which included an eventual ownership stake in the club and even a cut from new subscriptions to Apple\u2019s streaming service, where all M.L.S. games are shown. By this point in his career, he has become such a household name\u2014and brand\u2014in America that some opposing teams even offer compensation to their fans when he doesn\u2019t play.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, since the Scaloni era\u2019s unprecedented winning streak, Argentineans\u2019 adoration of Messi has, at last, become unconditional. In 2024, the Scaloneta<\/em> won its second consecutive Copa Am\u00e9rica, also in Miami. Even as he kept playing through the qualifiers and friendlies, Messi kept mum about whether he would ultimately participate in this summer\u2019s World Cup, his sixth, until the very last squad announcement. Now he is leading the selecci\u00f3n<\/em> in an attempt to make Argentina the first back-to-back world champions since 1962, vying for the country\u2019s fifth consecutive international title in the past five years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Messi is thirty-nine now, and I am twenty-nine. Two weeks ago, on June 16, 2026, Argentina played its first match in this year\u2019s tournament, against Algeria. It was exactly twenty years to the day since Messi\u2019s d\u00e9but against Serbia and Montenegro, in the summer of 2006. For once, the game was not taking place in some faraway time zone, like Johannesburg or Doha; there were no work or school commitments to skirt for the 9 P.M.<\/em> kickoff. I watched the game on Telemundo with my family, in the same place where we watched it two decades earlier. Messi, ever the showman, scored a stunning hat trick\u2014his first ever in a World Cup\u2014for the 3\u20130 win, and was subbed out in the seventy-ninth minute for Nico Paz (suggested by some to be his heir apparent), to a standing ovation. In the next game, against Austria, Messi again scored both goals in a 2\u20130 victory, an astonishing start to the tournament. He played as loosely and freely as he had on his first day; after winning everything imaginable, he played like he had nothing to lose.<\/p>\n

After each game, my American friends reached out to congratulate me, as though I had achieved something myself. The same thing had happened four years earlier, in 2022, when Messi and Argentina won it all in Qatar: people remembered how much it meant for my family, all those years, as we kept time in mundiales<\/em>. That year, when I sent those friends videos of our long-awaited celebrations after the final, singing Argentinean soccer songs in Spanish, I wondered if they were surprised that I knew the words by heart.\u00a0\u2666<\/p>\n

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