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Lionel Messi responded to an in-game, on-field petition for a signature with a signature goal.
Messi scored 2 goals and was doubly accosted by fans moving connected the tract arsenic Argentina extended its unbeaten streak to 35 matches implicit 3 years by beating Jamaica 3-0 connected Wednesday (AEST) successful its next-to-last World Cup warmup match.
"You person to bask Messi," Argentina manager Lionel Scaloni said.
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"No substance your country, everyone does. I'm his coach, but I would bargain a summons to spot him."
Julián Álvarez enactment Argentina up successful the 13th minute.
Messi entered successful the 56th and accrued his vocation full to 90 goals successful 164 planetary appearances with his 17th multigoal game.
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"There are nary words to picture what helium is," Álvarez said.
"Playing five, 10 minutes oregon each the match, helium manages to bash astonishing things."
A instrumentality sprinted onto the tract successful the 65th infinitesimal and tried to instrumentality Messi's photo.
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Messi stood and watched the spectator being subdued astatine his feet portion the instrumentality inactive tried to drawback an representation with his compartment phone.
The six-time satellite subordinate of the year, 3 months past his 35th birthday, doubled the pb erstwhile helium bushed Andrew Blake to the goalkeeper's near connected a 21m left-foot changeable successful the 86th infinitesimal aft driving guardant pursuing a give-and-go with Giovani Lo Celso.
After his archetypal goal, Messi was approached by a bare-chested instrumentality who asked him to motion his back, and helium appeared astir to scrawl a signature earlier 3 guards tackled the instrumentality and much swarmed in.
Messi got different extremity 3 minutes aboriginal aft helium was pulled down by Adrian Mariappa conscionable extracurricular the punishment area.
Messi sent the footwear done the antiaircraft partition and conscionable to the close limb of a sprawling Blake for his ninth free-kick extremity for Argentina.
Messi scored 4 goals successful Argentina's 2 World Cup warmups this month, giving him 16 vocation goals successful the United States.
Fans erupted successful applause little than a infinitesimal into the 2nd fractional erstwhile Messi walked with teammates to a country and started to lukewarm up.
A ample percent of the assemblage appeared much focused connected Messi stretching than they did the enactment connected the field, and fans stood and made the stadium rumble erstwhile helium entered for Lautaro Martínez and took the captain's armband from Angel Di Maria.
Messi, who won his archetypal elder rubric for Argentina astatine past year's Copa América, inactive has much velocity and quicker acceleration than astir and his summation energised Argentina successful the 2nd half.
He besides forced Blake to marque a brace of diving saves.
Many successful the sell-out assemblage of 25,000 successful Red Bull Arena wore blue-and-white-striped Albiceleste jerseys, making it consciousness similar an Argentina location game.
Public code announcements were chiefly successful Spanish and ribbon boards flashed "Vamos Argentina!"
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Álvarez enactment Argentina up aft Nicolás Tagliafico passed from the flank to Martínez, who spun astir Leon Bailey to unfastened abstraction and centered to the 22-year-old Álvarez.
He slotted past Blake for his 2nd extremity successful 11 planetary appearances.
Heading to its 13th consecutive World Cup, Argentina seeks to adhd to championships it won successful 1978 with Mario Kempes and 1986 with Diego Maradona.
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Argentina has 1 remaining friendly, against the United Arab Emirates connected November 16 astatine Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
At the World Cup successful Qatar, Argentina opens against Saudi Arabia - which drew with the the USA 0-0 successful an accumulation connected Wednesday - and past plays Mexico and Poland.
Argentina has 25 wins, including 1 connected punishment kicks, and 10 draws since a 2-0 nonaccomplishment to Brazil astatine the Copa América connected July 2, 2019.
Scaloni made 8 changes from the starting line-up successful Saturday's 3-0 triumph implicit 80th-ranked Honduras astatine Miami Gardens, Florida, inserting Di Maria and Giovani Lo Celso.
Emiliano Martínez replaced Gerónimo Rulli.
The Reggae Boyz, who finished sixth among 8 nations successful the last circular of the North and Central American and Caribbean region, played successful jerseys without names, successful opposition to Argentina.
Jamaica started a first-choice line-up successful its archetypal lucifer nether caller manager Heimir Hallgrímsson that included Premier Leaguers Michail Antonio, Leon Bailey and Bobby Decordova-Reid and Blake, a Philadelphia Union standout.
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