Enzo Fernández couldn’t hold back.
When Lionel Messi took the microphone at the Monumental after the 3-0 win over Benin on October 6, the camera caught the midfielder in close-up: misty eyes, his face marked by tears. It was one of the night’s defining images.
Curiously, just beforehand, the camera had focused on Antonela Roccuzzo, Messi’s wife, who was following the speech with a much calmer expression. The contrast between their faces did not go unnoticed and sparked a wave of memes on social media.
To understand Enzo’s tears, we have to go back to 2016. He was 15 when Messi announced his resignation from the national team, and he wrote him a letter asking him to reconsider. As a child, according to Noticias Argentinas, he would calculate whether he would be old enough to play alongside his idol. Six years later, they became world champions together in Qatar 2022.