I Didn’t Know How Badly I Needed That World Cup Finale

Sports By Alex Kirshner Enter your email to receive alerts for this author. Sign in or create an account to better manage your email preferences. Unsubscribe from email alerts Are you sure you want to unsubscribe from email alerts for Alex Kirshner? July 19, 20268:49 PM Lionel Messi shakes hands with an American man. MANDEL NGAN/Getty Images Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Maybe it was gravity. Maybe it was the soccer gods wanting to punish Lionel Messi in a substantial way, finally, for not paying his taxes when he played for Barcelona. But in the first minute of the second period of extra time on Sunday, something bad finally happened to Argentina. More descriptively, a bad thing happened that Ar