Argentina superstar Lionel Messi said in a conversation with Sebastián Vignolo that the 2022 Qatar World Cup will be his last.

“This will be my last World Cup — for sure. The decision has been made,” Messi said in the conversation.

“I’m counting down the days until the World Cup. “The truth is, there’s a little anxiety, saying: ‘Well, we’re here, what’s going to happen? It’s my last one, how’s it going to go?’. On one hand, I can’t wait for it to arrive but I’m also desperate for it to go well,” he added.

Messi made his international debut in 2007 and has since won 164 caps for Argentina.

"I don't know if we are the great candidates, but Argentina itself is always a candidate because of history, because of what it means," he said. "More now at the moment we arrived. But we are not the top favorites it seems to me. There are other teams that are above us today, but we are very close."

Given their Copa America success last year, Argentina will go into Qatar as one of the favourites to lift the World Cup. Messi claimed that such his team are used to such expectations going into major tournaments.