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We have grown used to Messi speaking through his football, but on Tuesday night against Nigeria he showed a less typical, for him,  capacity to play the leader. While his opening goal showed the  vision, touch, composure and accuracy that has marked his  genius for more than  a decade, as illustrative of  personality was his talk to his team-mates at half time, and the celebration of Argentina’s second goal. The talk just before Argentina walked out for the second half,  by all accounts, involved not a huge speech but a …

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