Synopsis
Lionel Messi: Destiny (2023) is a sports documentary you can watch online on iFILM. Across 59 minutes it traces how Lionel Messi finally claimed the one prize that had dodged him for a whole career — the World Cup.
The film goes behind the Argentina camp and walks the road to the Qatar final one stretch at a time: the mood in the dressing room, the hand of coach Lionel Scaloni, the nerve of keeper Emiliano Martínez, the goals from Julián Álvarez and Alexis Mac Allister. Pundits and writers weigh in along the way, Gary Lineker and Messi biographer Guillem Balagué among them. Rather than replay the matches beat for beat, it digs at what was happening inside a man for whom this tournament was a last chance to end things on his own terms.
Director Alexander Hill builds a portrait of an athlete under enormous weight, not a statue on a pedestal. It's for anyone who lived and died with Argentina that winter and wants to ride the path to the final again, this time knowing how it ends. Stream Lionel Messi: Destiny (2023) online on iFILM.
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