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		<div id="textsize"><p>(<a href="none" class="source">AFP</a>) - <b>Argentina</b> prepared to face defending champions <b>France</b> in the <b>World Cup</b> <b>final</b> on Sunday with Lionel Messi seeking to crown his record-breaking career by winning football's biggest prize for the first time on his farewell to the tournament.</p>
<p>After 63 matches and 166 goals, the month-long footballing showpiece reaches its climax at Doha's 89,000-capacity Lusail Stadium on Sunday, with the eagerly anticipated <b>final</b> kicking off at 6:00 pm local time (1500 GMT).</p>
<p>Messi, playing in his fifth and <b>final</b> <b>World Cup</b>, is hoping to lead <b>Argentina</b> to a first title since the Diego Maradona-inspired victory in Mexico City in 1986.</p>
<p>In his way stand the prolific Kylian Mbappe and a <b>France</b> team aiming to win back-to-back World Cups for the first time since Pele's Brazil in 1958 and 1962.</p>
<p>Messi, 35, has collected seven Ballon d'Or awards for the best player in the world, but his last trip to the <b>World Cup</b> <b>final</b> ended in the bitter disappointment of defeat to Germany in 2014.</p>
<p><b>Argentina</b>'s campaign in <b>Qatar</b> has been boosted by the presence of tens of thousands of supporters who have flocked to each of the team's matches.</p>
<p>"I am well aware that <b>Argentina</b> will have a lot of fans behind them," <b>France</b> coach Didier Deschamps said on Saturday.</p>
<p>"I know <b>Argentina</b>, many people around the world, and maybe some French people, hope Lionel Messi could win the <b>World Cup</b>, but we're going to do everything to achieve our objective."</p>
<p><b>Argentina</b> goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez said: "People say the favourites are France. But we have the greatest player of all time."</p>
<p>Deschamps has suffered a difficult few days since <b>France</b> beat Morocco -- the first African team ever to reach the last four -- in the semi-final.</p>
<p>His squad have been battling a mystery virus that is believed to have affected five players so far.</p>
<p>Players, staff and sources close to the French squad have spoken of a range of symptoms including fever, stomach pain and headaches.</p>
<p>"We are trying to take as many precautions as possible, to adapt as necessary and get on with it," Deschamps said.</p>
<p>He had cause for encouragement when all 24 members of his squad took to the field at the start of their last team training session before the <b>final</b>, although reporters were ushered away after 15 minutes.</p>
<p><strong>- Emulating Maradona -</strong></p>
<p>Captain Hugo Lloris preferred to focus on the match, insisting he was not concentrating solely on Messi and noted how <b>France</b> had shaken off the injury-enforced absence of key performers Karim Benzema, Paul Pogba and N'Golo Kante.</p>
<p>"Lots of people didn't believe in us but here we are back in the <b>final</b> again," said Lloris.</p>
<p>"We know what Messi represents in the history of our sport but this is a match between <b>France</b> and Argentina. We will do everything to win this last battle."</p>
<p>While Messi chases sporting immortality, his Paris Saint-Germain teammate Mbappe, 23, is aiming to become the youngest player to win two World Cups since Pele achieved the feat at the age of 21.</p>
<p><b>France</b> can also count on Antoine Griezmann, who has been highly influential from midfield in the run to the final.</p>
<p><b>Argentina</b> supporters will dominate in the stadium, with at least 40,000 estimated to be in Doha.</p>
<p>Their passionate presence has been one of the features of this unusual <b>World Cup</b>, played for the first time outside of its traditional slot in the middle of year.</p>
<p>"We all believe this will be Messi's day," Ricardo Schwarz, a teacher from Cordoba, told AFP at the Souq Waqif in the centre of the Qatari capital.</p>
<p>Croatia beat Morocco 2-1 in the third-place playoff on Saturday, but the north Africans' coach Walid Regragui predicted a team from Africa will win the <b>World Cup</b> in the next "15-20 years".</p>
<p>The next <b>World Cup</b> in 2026 will be expanded to 48 teams and Africa will have nine guaranteed slots, up from five at present.</p>
<p>"With nine participants, we're going to learn. In 15, 20 years, I'm sure an African team will win the <b>World Cup</b> because we'll have learned," said Regragui.</p>
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