When we live historical events the most difficult thing is to realise in the present that we are living them.

Well, today, my friends, we have experienced it. We are congratulating ourselves because we have lived a part of football history. We have seen what we can qualify as the great final of all time, a memorable match, which will be difficult to forget in our lives.

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It was a match in which Argentina started out on top. They began by dominating and in the first half through Messi on the penalty spot and Di Maria, executing a sensational counter-attack, they saw the game go very much in their favour.

But nobody gave France the gift of being in the finals, individuality weighs heavily and that’s why Kylian Mbappé didn’t want to say goodbye to this World Cup like that. A hat-trick from the Paris Saint Germain player took the match into extra time.

A fateful extra time with Lloris’ save that left a rebound for Leo Messi, it seemed that football was smiling again at Messi but however it would be even tenser because a penalty in favour of France tied the match again. Mbappé and Messi scored the first.

It was Dibu Martinez’s moment as it was in the Copa America against Colombia, as it was in the quarter-final against the Netherlands. He saved the first one from Kingsley Coman and the match began to be ruled out for Argentina.

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Tchouameni missed and then it was the turn of an unexpected hero who should not have been in the pools to be in the penalties but who was the decisive hero Cachete Montiel with temperance to score the goal that has given Argentina their third World Cup.