@9uzmi: On August 17 2005 an 18 year old Lionel Messi finally lived the moment he had dreamed about since he was a little boy. José Pékerman called his name and sent him onto the pitch for Argentina against Hungary in Budapest. It was only a friendly match but for Messi it felt like the biggest night of his life. (الـAFA) He stepped onto the field wearing the Argentina shirt for the first time. Millions expected the beginning of a legendary story. Instead football wrote one of its most unbelievable plot twists. After touching the ball only a few times and spending less than two minutes on the pitch he was shown a red card after an incident with a Hungarian defender. His dream debut ended almost before it even began. He walked off heartbroken while people wondered if this was how his international career would be remembered forever. (El País) If this was a movie that moment would have looked like the ending. But it was only the first scene. The boy who cried after his debut came back stronger every single year. He kept wearing the same shirt through criticism painful finals and years of disappointment. Then he lifted the Copa América the Finalissima and finally the World Cup completing the greatest redemption football has ever seen. Sometimes the best stories do not begin with a perfect first chapter. Sometimes they begin with a red card #argentina #messi

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