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It has been over a month since Lionel Messi lifted the FIFA World Cup trophy in Qatar. Team Argentina celebrated with the trophy, carrying Lionel Messi on its shoulder. Every soccer fan was either in the stadium or sitting in front of a screen. Witnessing greatness was many other greats.

Serbian tennis greatness Novak Djokovic was present in the stadium that night. He watched as Gonzalo Montiel scored the fourth penalty in the shootout, making Argentina the winner of the most prestigious trophy in sports.

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Novak Djokovic attended the match and was there with Swedish soccer megastar Zlatan Ibrahimovic. His admiration for Lionel Messi isn’t new. He had talked about how much he respects the Argentinian magician. Although the match was the farthest thing from an easy win. Several moments in the game could have changed the course of the match.

Novak Djokovic sang the Argentinian victory song

After witnessing Lionel Messi creating history, Novak Djokovic came back to tennis and repeated what he witnessed from the soccer GOAT. Novak Djokovic a couple of days ago had won the Australian open. This victory led him to his 10th Australian Open title win. However, the soccer community was surprised as the clip went viral.

After he won the title, he was interviewed by a journalist who asked him about his Qatar visit during FIFA WC final match. According to one Twitter user who translated the conversation, the journalist said, “you are a super fan of Messi, I saw you in Qatar.” To that, Djokovic replied, “yes, of course“.

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The journalist then went on singing the Argentinian FIFA victory song. The Australian Open winner couldn’t help himself, but he jumped and sang the song with him as well. Although the language barrier got to him as well, as he looked quite lost most of the time with lyrics.

The nail-biting 2022 WC final

Although fans were wishing for this moment for years, the moment slipped from Argentina many times. They had a strong 2-0 lead in the first half, but the 80th minute brought the storm that is Kylian Mbappe. The French prodigy scored 2 back-to-back goals in a minute. The regular time and added time ended goalless after that.

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The overtime started with a mesmerizing goal by Lionel Messi but was equalized by Mbappe 10 minutes later. Emiliano Martinez saved Argentina from a last-minute goal with a heroic save and sent the game to penalty. The penalty king Emiliano saved the shot from Coman and it resulted in a 4-2 penalty win for Argentina after a 3-3 tie.