Lionel Messi has admitted he did intentionally snub Robert Lewandowski at the Qatar World Cup.
Messi’s Argentina took on Lewandowski’s Poland in a tense final group game as neither nation had managed to qualify for the knockout stages at that point.
Argentina eventually won the game 2-0, courtesy of goals from Julian Alvarez and Alexis MacAllister.
Messi would then go on to win an historic first World Cup, cementing his legacy as one of the game’s greatest ever players.
But during the group stage encounter there was a frosty exchange between Lewandowksi and the Inter Miami striker, Messi opening up about the exchange recently.
Messi beat Lewandowski to the 2021 Ballon D’Or but during speech the Argentine argued the Barcelona forward deserved the award for the previous year, which was cancelled due to the pandemic.
In response, Lewandowski suggested that the Argentine’s remarks weren’t as sincere as they were meant to be, although Messi refutes this and said it was a case of mistranslation.
