Cuando alguien desea mucho una cosa, en ocasiones se le otorga (ESP - ENG)

When someone wants something very much, sometimes it is granted

This phrase, which many have probably imagined and surely used on countless occasions, serves these days to corroborate what happened in what many says has already been the best World Cup final in the history of this sport.

There is no doubt that both Messi and Mbappé wanted this cup with all their might, which, despite previous individual and group achievements, represents the culmination of stories of sacrifices, yearnings, and resignations. I am a romantic and I would like to leave the phrase there because it sounds good, but it is also true that that cup will bring you many more millions than you already have, among other things.

I don't want to be unfair, but it is true that all those who participated in the main world soccer tournament and also many who were left behind had those same wishes, I only focus on the two mentioned because of what they did throughout the tournament they were the excluding and antagonistic figures, although paradoxically they are teammates in the French league.

I also want to emphasize that both deserved it, although as an Argentine and compatriot of the great Lionel I wanted with all my might that the coin would fall on the side that finally fell. Mbappé had already won his in the previous World Cup at just 20 years old, almost the same number of years that Messi had to wait to get his own, although no one would have been surprised if he too had won it much younger.

I am not going to fall into the facilitation of the always hateful comparisons, that everyone thinks as they want, one of the great things about football is precise that we all see the same show and each one has their own opinion, tastes, and preferences.

Messi wanted this cup with all his might, I have watched the entire show on several occasions and unlike the rest of his teammates, I think he never cried (at least not in public and for the cameras), the phrase he dedicated to his family He demonstrates with all power and simplicity, poured into just two words, the peace and tranquility that he felt at that moment, he only told them: “that's it”. He wanted that last consecration very much, so much so that God granted it to him not without having to give up every last drop of sweat, but rather by telling him that, although he deserved it, he had to earn it. He wasn't going to give it to her just because of her background.

The charges or "memes" as they are now called that circulated on social networks against the great Frenchman were many, some very ingenious, all of them harsh as always are the mockery of the defeated.

I was left with a very profound phrase that is part of a poem by Jorge Luis Borges, that brilliant writer who, unlike Messi, deserved the Nobel Prize, but was never awarded. When Borges went blind in 1955, he was appointed director of the National Library and the irony of being surrounded by 800,000 volumes and not being able to read and admire them crossed his thoughts.

In a well-known poem a few years later, he mentions that fact in the way that only he could do it: “Nobody reduces to tears or reproach/ this declaration of the mastery/ of God, who with magnificent irony/ gave me both the books and the night."

The meme that I read yesterday took that phrase from Borges and placed it as an epigraph of a photograph of Mbappé leaning on the substitute bench with that face that only defeat can draw, they had only changed a couple of words, but not the tremendous meaning What they represented:

“Nobody reduces to tears or reproach/ this declaration of the mastery/ of God, who with magnificent irony/ gave me three goals and the night at the same time.”

It was the only meme that seemed to me more of a tribute than a mockery.

Mbappé also wanted that cup with all his might, only this time for some reason only known to God, he preferred to give it to Messi.

The paths of life are unfathomable.