"December 18, 2022. Leo Messi, 34, will win the World Cup and become the greatest player of all time. Consult me again after seven years." This message written by Argentine tweeter José Miguel Polanco (@josepolanco10) on March 20, 2015 has gone viral on social networks.
The curious thing about the tweet is that Polanco was right about everything except one, the simplest thing, calculating in 2015 the right age for Messi at the 2022 World Cup. Messi won the World Cup at the age of 35, not at the age of 34 years.
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José Miguel Polanco, who traveled to Qatar to cheer on Argentina in the final against France, recalled in January that “the number of people reminiscing about my tweet scares me, maybe at the end of the year they will lynch me. However, I will stay 'live' in Qatar in a robe."

At the end of the match, in which Argentina defeated France on penalties, the Twitter prophet reminded his followers that his prediction had come true: “ I followed you all over the world and we finally got to enjoy eternal glory. You are a love, Argentina is the love of my life. I am the happiest boy in the world, as well as the 45 million Argentinians who have dreamed of this, since we reasoned".
What do you know? Te seguí a todas partes del mundo y por fin pudimos savoring la gloria eterna. No sos un amor que me lastima, sos el amor de mi vida. Soy el tipo más feliz del mundo, así como los 45 milliones de Argentinos que soñamos con esto desde que tenemos uso de la razón ???????????? pic.twitter.com/cilNpUA6Gh
— José Miguel Polanco (@josepolanco10) December 18, 2022