By Akinwale Kasali
After 120 minutes of a tension soaked encounter the ‘Albacelestie’ as the Argentina National Football Team is called won the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar 4-2 on penalties after a 3-3 draw.
France came back on three occasions having gone 2-0 down in the first half courtesy of a Lionel Messi Penalty and an Angel Di Maria strike gave the Argentina a deserved lead.
Less than 15 minutes to the end of the match, France Poster boy, Kylian Mbappe changed the dynamics of the game scoring two goals in quick succession to send the game into extra time.
During the extra time, Messi scored with less than 12 minutes to the end of the 30 Minutes of extra time before Mbappe restored France’s chanaces of winning the trophy from the penalty spot to make the game 3-3 forcing it into penalties.
Argentina won the penalty shootout 4-2 against France.
Mbappe won the Highest Goal Scorer with eight Goals, while Messi won the Player of the Tournament and Enzo Fernandez won the Young Player of the Year Award.
Emiliano Martinez won the Golden Gloves as the Best Goalkeeper of the tournament.
