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On Tuesday night (8 p.m. in Buenos Aires, 1 a.m. in Paris), Lionel Messi plays his last match for Argentina at the Monumental. The editor-in-chief of Journal La Maison bids him farewell in a poem.
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Wednesday, October 7, 2026, at 1 a.m. Paris time (Tuesday, October 6, at 8 p.m. in Buenos Aires, 7 p.m. in Haiti and New York), Lionel Messi plays his last match in Argentina's shirt, against Benin, at the Monumental stadium in Buenos Aires.
I am not ready to say goodbye to you.
Today, my throat tight and dry, I gaze at Lionel Messi's number 10 in the middle of a tiny football pitch. Head between his legs, back bent.
No one else has lived this minute. Number 10 has filled the whole stadium. The giant must gather himself; the sacrifice is near.
Today Lionel Messi must cross over into an eternal world. A world where God directs talent, a world only geniuses may enter.
It is the first time the living have witnessed the eternalization of a living man. A genius whose gifts not even death will conquer, and whom neither statistics, nor words, nor trophies can ever match.
This morning, for us in Europe, is a morning made of night. A dawn scented with the charm of your feet.
This Tuesday, others will tremble and dance, hand on heart, clinging to memories and to millions of farewells that will never be enough to comfort our tear-filled eyes.
I am not yet ready to imagine a World Cup without knowing you are on your way. I will never bring myself to believe, nor to affirm, that the truth is tonight. We are not crying. For nothing has been forgotten.
Lionel Messi, you read every chapter of the book to the very end. You told each word like a bead, comma after comma, and the full stops bowed to your left foot.
Lionel Messi, thank you!
Thank you for all the languages you made me understand. “ANKALA MESSI, ANKALA MESSI.” And I easily understood it meant: KING MESSI IS COMING, THE LORD OF THE BALL IS COMING. The indefinable, the undethronable, the man of every trophy was arriving. Thank you, Messi.
This morning you will look back, not regret.
You will smile, not suffer.
You will sign the universal, indelible mark of your career. Messi, don't forget to look up at the sky for this last dance.
Photo: RMC
Gédem's Francklin EDOUARD / CHEF DE RÉDACTION DU JOURNAL LA MAISON
Translated from the original French text published by Journal La Maison.
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