Column: Messi missing signature World Cup moment
SAO PAULO (AP) — The World Cup can only hope that Lionel Messi is leaving his best for last./ In the most important World Cup match to date in his epoch-shaping career, football's superstar was neither super nor a star. The four-time world player of the year was a bystander, not a decisive protagonist, for large chunks of Wednesday's semifinal, his first on football's biggest stage. The match dragged on into extra time and then still finished 0-0 in large part because Messi failed to leave his mark on it as he has done on hundreds of others ...
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