World Cup final: Lionel Messi's moment of immortality?

Messi is the captain, but Mascherano is the leader of Argentina on the field. They play together on the same club, Barcelona. Messi, again, is usually the story there, and rightly so, given that he is so many times not just the game-winner, but an

Argentina's Lionel Messi is one of ten players named by Fifa as candidates for the Golden Argentina's Lionel Messi is one of ten players named as candidates for the Golden Ball award at the 2014 World Cup. Photograph: Mike Hewitt – Fifa/ via Getty Images.

Before he led Argentina to the World Cup final Lionel Messi was destroying athletes in his own country since he was 5-years-old and there's video…

Messi is the captain, but Mascherano is the leader of Argentina on the field. They play together on the same club, Barcelona. Messi, again, is usually the story there, and rightly so, given that he is so many times not just the game-winner, but an

Lionel Messi will play in the World Cup final. Perhaps this shouldn't be a huge deal in the modern age, when, should you want to see Messi, he's available to you via television, Internet streams, Youtube and poseable action