 After regulation time, two parrots of extra time and penalty kicks, Argentina beat defending champion France in the World Cup final at Lucille Stadium in Cota. Ultimately, it was substituted Gonzalo Montel that scored the winning goal to end a dramatic final match of the World Cup. Argentina won the penalty shootout 4-2 after the score remained tied at 2-2 following 90 minutes of play and two parrots of extra time. In what is expected to be his last World Cup, Llanomasi scored first in the game of 23rd minute penalty. A short time later, Angel Di Maria scored, giving Argentina a 2-0 lead against France at half-time. Francis Kilian Moppe scored on the penalty kick in the second half to set the score to 2-1. One minute later, Moppe struck again to tie the game at 2-2, the score held through the second half, sending the game into extra time. One of our sports anchors, Mudashiru, she joins us to look at this World Cup. Hello Mudashiru. Or Messi's lead, how are you? Well, Messi has led Argentina to the World Cup title. What does this win mean to Messi and his team-mates? It's an interesting one for Messi. After, since 1986, when Diego Mardona inspired him to win the World Cup, Messi has done this again and habituated a very dramatic World Cup. The win for the World Cup glue is finally over. After Argentina defeated them first in a dramatic penalty shootout, it was a final for the ages, with a momentum swing in both ways throughout the 120 minutes. As you said, Gonzalo scored the win in penalty after the game finished in 3-3. Well, let's look beyond this. It means so much to Messi, it means so much to fans and a lot of people have said that this really means that we can now see Messi is the greatest player of all time. But beyond that, it didn't come on the platter of gold. We saw how it ended 3-3, 2-2 in the first regulation time and 3-3 after extra time. And it's interesting to know that this would probably win a long way in the art of Messi. And this is finally to the career that people have said that today was a messy day. After winning 7 Ballon Dollars, 38 trophies, playing over 1000 games in his career, the World Cup was the only title missing for Messi's collection. And I think this is the befitting World Cup for him. And would I don't forget that he almost missed out from today. So I think it's interesting for Messi and the rest of the world. Yeah, Muda, would you say that the penalty awarded to Argentina was deserved? Yeah, I think it's deserved because, you know, the referee's decision is the final decision. And we have to hold on to that. It's not going to make any point if we want to go in case the referee who has the financing of that. So it's all deserved. It's something that a lot of people who is agree, but when we take a look at the penalty and how it occurred, you say it is well deserved. And I think even if something it doesn't well deserve, it has no financing in the game. So would you say that this World Cup trophy for Messi settles the debate between who is the greatest player between Messi and Ronaldo? I agree, but let's not forget that who is the greatest of all time between these two sides is coming from the fans. It is not something official. It is coming from journalists. It's coming from fans. It's coming from people that love both players. It is not FIFA looking for who is the greatest of all time. It is not anything official. It's something that is just coming from fans and both lovers of the two teams. So who is the greatest of all time? It's not an official. Who is the greatest of all time? It's not an official title. It is not a title given by FIFA. It is not a title given by any football stakeholders. It is just a title that fans across the globe is trying to give their favourites. So if Messi wins this, does not make him the greatest of all time, does not make him arguably better than Ronaldo, because there are other better players in this World Cup that has not won the World Cup. Let's look for example, Koishan Modric. He hasn't won the World Cup, but he has won. They came to audio. They were finalists last year. So you cannot say because you won the World Cup, you are greater than every other player in the history of the football. So it is not an official title. Goats, greatest of all time. It is not an official title. It is just a title coined by we journalists, coined by broadcasters, coined by fans. So it is an argument that will continue for a very long time. Yeah, indeed it will continue. But before I let you go on with Ashiru, well comparing other World Cup competitions, would you say that this World Cup will be at the greatest in terms of logistics, the game on the field of play and the officiating? Yeah, I think we've been hearing many World Cups before now that is the greatest World Cup tournament so far. And in fact, you know, said that two days ago in a press conference at the FIFA Council that this is the greatest World Cup so far. And he gave his reasons why it is greatest of all time. He looked at attendants. He looked at the surprises. But nevertheless, we've also seen some World Cups that can be adjoined and believed to be the greatest World Cup. So I would think that we say the greatest so far, we say it is one. I prefer we should point out that the Qatar 2022 is one of the greatest World Cup hosted. USA 94 was one World Cup that we never, never forget in terms of hosting, in terms of attendance, in terms of many other things. So we can say Qatar 2022 is one of the greatest World Cups ever hosted because they say as its own its own side effect, because we have issues of human rights, we have issues of suppressing freedom, we have issues of the LBGT. So we have other issues of you know, wearing some certain clothes are you dressed, you can't drink, you can't smoke. So that's for Qatar 2022. So even when we want to call it the greatest World Cup ever hosted, you see that its own, I don't use the word negative side, but it has the one side that some stakeholders, we want to believe that it suppresses human freedom of expression. So I just want to hold on to the fact that it is one of the greatest World Cups ever hosted, not the greatest because I can remember USA 94 and some other tournaments that have been hosted. All right, thank you Mudashir. Thank you so much for your time. Mudashir is one of our sports correspondents there. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.