‘Messi’s World Cup: The Rise of a Legend’ - a four-part documentary following Argentina’s 2022 World Cup campaign premieres this week.
No player in the history of the Beautiful Game has won as much as Lionel Messi. The Argentinean has an enviable and unmatched honors list - 44 titles between club and country. In fact there are only two competitions that he has played in and hasn’t won - the Coupe de France and MLS Cup. And you never know that might change sometime soon.
Despite his achievements, to be truly regarded as the game’s legendary figures, if not the best player ever to have stepped out onto a football pitch, he needed to win the greatest prize of all - the World Cup. Pelé has done it three times, Maradona and Beckenbauer just once but all of them had won the one trophy Leo lacked.
Messi has starred in five World Cups with Argentina, reaching the quarter finals in 2006 and 2010 and losing the 2014 final to Germany. When the Albiceleste were dumped out at the Round of 16 stage at Russia 2018, it looked like Messi might never be a world champion.
His (and Argentina’s) moment finally arrived in Qatar in 2022. The road to World Cup glory was captured on film for a new Apple TV+ documentary series, shot in Paris, Qatar and Argentina and executive produced by Tim Pastore, Patrick Milling Smith, Brian Carmody, Matt Renner, Jenna Millman and Juan Camilo Cruz.
Following last year’s docuseries ‘Messi comes to the United States’ Apple TV+ release Messi’s World Cup: The Rise of a Legend - a four episode documentary that charts Argentina’s 2022 World Cup campaign and features interviews with the player himself and team mates past and present including Sergio Agüero, Emiliano Martínez, Rodrigo De Paul, Ángel Di María and head
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