Argentina win the World Cup
Messi finally lifts the trophy, in what many call the greatest final ever played.
- When
- Known to
- ± 12 hours
- Era
- Contemporary, Holocene
- Where
- Lusail, Qatar · 25.4200° N, 51.4900° E
On 18 December 2022 Argentina beat France on penalties after a 3-3 draw in which France came back twice, Mbappe scored a hat-trick and Messi scored twice. The tournament in Qatar was the first in the Arab world and the first in winter, and was shadowed throughout by the treatment of the migrant workers who built it and by the criminalisation of homosexuality in the host country.