the newspaper saiddemSpain’s ‘World Cup curse’ awaits three players from both teams at the World Cup final match in Qatar.
Lionel Messi, Kylian Mbappe and Antoine Griezmann are the leading candidates for the tournament’s player award, but the history of the award shows that the winner is not from the team that won the title.
According to the newspaper, Sunday’s final could snap the winner in the drought that has continued since France 1998.
The history of the tournament shows that the winner of the best player is not from the winning team, and in France the 1998 World Cup, Brazilian Ronaldo won the award despite losing 3-0 in the final match against France, and the Brazilian Ronaldo was voted the best player of the tournament. He scored eight goals in seven games.
As for 2006, Zinedine Zidane won despite his French team’s loss to Italy.
In South Africa 2010, Uruguay’s Diego Forlan won despite his team finishing in fourth place, and his five goals were decisive for the South American team.
And in the Russia 2018 World Cup, Luka Modric won Although Mbappe, Pogba and Griezmann had great performances in the World Cup, the Ballon d’Or for Russia 2018 went to Luka Modric. The Croatian was decisive for his country on the way to the final.
Sunday’s clash between Argentina and France in the Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup final will be the fourth between them in the major global event. Argentina leads 2-1, but the Lusail Stadium meeting will be the first between them in the title-deciding final.
And Argentine Lionel Messi will be against France on Sunday in a fixture with more than fulfilling his dream of winning the World Cup in Qatar and joining legend Diego Maradona, who gave his country their last title in 1986, as he will be unique in the record for the number of matches in the final, along with other numbers.
