Having failed to stop Messi in the World Cup semi-finals, 20-year-old defender Wardiol ended the tournament with a memorable goal for himself.
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Whatever be the sport, the lesson is always that every time, every match and every day is not the same. Sometimes you are on the throne, sometimes on the floor. It just remains to be seen how they come back after falling. In the FIFA World Cup 2022, this was seen happening with many teams and many players. The most recent example of this was the match between Croatia and Morocco, where 20-year-old Croatian player Yoshko Wardiol overcame his failure to face Lionel Messi in the semi-finals to end the tournament in style by scoring a stunning goal.
The 20-year-old Croatian defender impressed everyone with his impressive performance in the Qatar World Cup. Everyone was considering him as one of the best players of the tournament. He then faced Argentina in the semi-finals, where his team was already trailing 0-2. Still, Croatia had some hope, but in the last moments of the second half, 35-year-old Lionel Messi had won his team 3-0 by his miraculous steps, blowing the senses of this young spirit.
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Now in all these years big defenders and goalkeepers have failed in front of Messi, so everyone could forgive the failure of a new player like Wardiol. Even then it is not easy to recover from it, but this player playing wearing a protection mask on his face showed that he is a big star of the future.
In the third-place match against Morocco on Saturday, December 17, in just the seventh minute of the match, Wardiol surprised everyone by scoring an excellent goal flying in the air with his header and gave his team the lead.
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⚽️GOAL!!! GVARDIOL’s flying header gives Croatia an early lead against Morocco.CROATIA ???????? 1 – 0 ???????? MOROCCOpic.twitter.com/7F9ymuc4LS
— Iris (@Iris4231) December 17, 2022
Got a befitting reply in 2 minutes
But it is often seen in football that immediately after scoring a goal, teams are in a position to make mistakes for some time and so did Wardiol and his team Croatia. All the happiness of Wardiol and his team was evaporated within just 2 minutes, as in the ninth minute, 23-year-old Moroccan defender Achraf Dari scored a corner, giving his team a 1-1 draw.