World Cup final match ends with penalty kick shootout, Argentina wins

Argentina dominated in the first half of the game, scoring two unanswered goals. But France came alive in the second half with two of their own goals.

DOHA, Qatar —  Lionel Messi, wearing a black Qatari robe over his blue-and-white Argentina shirt, kissed the World Cup, shuffled toward his teammates and hoisted the golden trophy high in the air.

It was an iconic sight that finally — definitively — places the soccer superstar in the pantheon of the game’s greatest players.

Messi’s once-in-a-generation career is complete: He is a World Cup champion.

In one of the wildest finals in the tournament’s 92-year

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