Pep Guardiola has congratulated the Argentina national team on winning the World Cup.

Guardiola has managed several Argentine players throughout his career, three of which have went on to become World Cup champions. The biggest name of them all is that of Lionel Messi’s and Guardiola took time out of his Manchester City press conference to congratulate the winners. Quotes courtesy of City_Xtra:

“Everyone has opinion but nobody can doubt Lionel Messi is there as the greatest of all time. For me he’s the best, difficult to understand a player can compete what he’s done. The people who saw Pele or Di Stefano or Maradona…

“The opinions are sentimental, but the other side, if he wouldn’t have won the World Cup, the opinion and my opinion wouldn’t change. It’s normal that people depends if you win or you are evaluated. The final cherries of an incredible career.”

The Manchester City coach also congratulated current City player Julián Álvarez and former City player Nicolás Otamendi:

“We are incredibly happy for Julián Álvarez, congratulations to him and Otamendi, personally to Messi. To Argentina, well deserved. We’re delighted for Julian, he played a lot, his contribution was amazing. We have a world champion in our team…

“He’ll have a week, ten days off. Many games, lots of tension. He’ll have a break, maybe before the new year [he will be back]…”

The Argentina national team will be celebrating their World Cup win today with the public!

It’s the first World Cup trophy celebration in Argentina since 1986 and celebrations started the second Gonzalo Montiel scored passed Hugo Lloris to crown Argentina as World champions.

The players landed in Argentina at 3:00 am Buenos Aires time with thousands waiting for them around the airport and on the streets. Now, the team is set to parade around the streets of Buenos Aires, with the parade starting in about 30 minutes.

Lionel Messi’s post holding the World Cup trophy is the most liked picture ever on Instagram.

Messi breaks another record, this time, off the pitch. The World Cup champion posted a picture of himself holding the biggest prize in World football and it has broken the record with 60 million likes.

Previously, the most liked picture ever was that of an egg. However, people quickly took notice of Messi’s picture and some even went and unliked the picture of the egg, while liking Messi’s picture.

Messi’s Instagram picture now stands at over 60 million likes, with more and more likes increasing every second.

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The World champions have landed in Argentina!

A live video is on Youtube showing the arrival of the team back home to Argentina with thousands of fans waiting to greet them. You can view the live stream below: