〰👤 Lionel Messi’s Instagram post and announcement of his retirement from national team football:

I love it, and I will always love it, and I will always be in love with the fact that I’m part of the national team. I gave everything I could, and I have nothing else to offer.

Also, there are great young players who are emerging and deserve to be in this team.

Thank you for all this love over the past 20 years. I will miss hearing your voices up close. Now I will be one of you, and I will always support the national team from the outside, in good times and especially in difficult times.