5 reasons why Lionel Messi should retire from international football

#1 A team shall be built

A team could be built

With the departure of Messi, the dependency on him will cease to exist. The system – which is so often tampered with in order to ‘suit Messi’ – will change and Argentina might finally start to play as a team instead of Messi-plus-ten.

Sampaoli’s constant talk about the rest of the players failing to support Messi shows that his main target was to build a team for Messi and not for actually building a team. The conception that building a team for Messi – or anyone for that matter – will gift you titles is absurd and should go away once the great man retires.

There will always be a scope for regret to not see Messi lift the title for Argentina – oh, the view of the number 10 lifting a major trophy for his country… surreal – but the truth is that once Argentina start building a team instead of a support staff to assist a single player, they might actually start winning.

Because the truth is, even the support staff ends up failing to assist the said player – which is Messi in this case – and causes heartbreaks for everyone involved.

Long live, King Messi. You tried all you could but some things are just not meant to be.