Former Portugal star Luis Figo expects Lionel Messi to raise his game at the World Cup, which he believes could be the Argentine’s last chance to lift the football’s most famous trophy. Messi made his World Cup debut in 2006 when Argentina reached the quarter-finals and was part of the team that made the last eight in 2010, before helping them to a first final in 24 years in 2014.
“I think it’s one of the last chances he has to perform with a great result in a World Cup. He will probably try harder and in the best way to achieve the goals Argentina have in the World Cup,” Figo told Omnisport.
Figo spend five years at Barcelona and left in 2000, four years before Messi made his breakthrough.