Messi’s exit leaves Argentina with impossible task of replacing their superhero | Jonathan Wilson
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When things are going awry, the Albiceleste will no longer be able to rely on their ultimate get-out clauseIt isn’t quite over yet. Lionel Messi will return a week on Wednesday for his formal farewell in a friendly against Benin, but, before that, Argentina face two games when they will begin to experience a future without the most potent get-out-of-jail-free card football has known.Messi’s international career falls into two distinct halves. There was the first decade when there was a sense that he didn’t quite fit, was somehow insufficiently Argentinian,…
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