Actually both of Pogba'l parents from Guniea but have settled in France, actually Pogba who was born in France can choose between defending the French or Guniea national team, but instead Pogba prefers France while his two brothers are currently defending the Guniea National Team
Defending the National Team is a form of our loyalty to country and I think, every player certainly has the desire to defend their respective country regardless of the salary they get, but obviously the salary they get from the country is not as big as what they get from the club, but of course defending the country in international tournaments is a matter of pride invaluable to a football player.
I personally hope that if Pogba, who is a in France, does not experience the same thing as what Mesut Ozil got when he was still with the German national team, which when Ozil performed well and Germany won they would treat him quite well, but when Germany lost of course ozil will be blamed and considered a turkish immigrant.
Sometimes football is ungrateful to its best players, I only remember Romario's saying that he had to train very hard to be one of the best, and sometimes fame comes for a short time to those who try hard, from In fact, Pogba's problem is somewhat difficult, in the Venezuelan team there are many players who are in Spain, Italy and Portugal, they are great but when you ask them why they do not play for their national team they say never, because they did not give them the opportunity, then this can sometimes come from a very deep problem that only those players have experienced.
Every players in a situation like this have their own personal reasons to not accept playing for their original national teams and in my opinion their decision should be respected by others because we don't know the difficulties, challenges and experiences they passed during the initial period of their lives that lead them to make that choice.
In my country there is also a professional player who refused to play for the local national team. Instead, he played for spanish national team. I don't remember exactly if it was in 2014 or 2018 world cup, but I do remember when Spain played and this specific player carried the ball my countrymen booed him on the stadium and I felt disgusted for that behavior.
Patriotism, love for the country can't be imposed to someone. It must be conquered daily with good examples coming from those who rule the society and the elder ones. But when it doesn't happen, naturally the younger generations will fell nothing for their homeland, especially when they have better examples living in foreigner countries.
At the end the players that have the option to pick more than one national team to play for should be free to play wherever they feel more conformable, just look at what happened with Messi, as far as I know he was given the option to play for Spain but he choose to play for Argentina, and what did he received most of his life? Nothing but criticism on his home country, if he had chosen to play for Spain instead I have no doubts he could have won 2 World Cups already.
Well, you hit the nail on the head, the only thing Messi lacks is to win a world cup, many say I compare with Maradona, and what everyone says is that Maradona won the world cup and Messi has not yet, I think that is a pressure that Messi has not yet been able to reciprocate, in fact at one point he said that he was going to retire from football, I think that sometimes he can have it all, but he only needs to win a World Cup in Football and we must not deny, all the teams that They classify have a very high level, mistakes are not allowed, any mistake is paid dearly.
In fact, it is obvious that it is much harder for Messi to play in the national team than in a club.
He fights for new trophies in the club every year, but in the national team he has to wait 4 years to fight for world and continental championships.
While he was a younger player he failed to win anything with the national team and the pressure grew further.
Realistically, it was much easier for Messi to win trophies at the club than at the national team because Barcelona was at its peak the best club in the world while the national team Argentina was never the best in the world and the national team always depended on his perfomances.
Also, in the memory of Argentina fans, it remained that Maradona practically brought Argentina alone to the title of world champion in 1986, and Messi still failed to do so, which is why they appreciate and love Maradona more.
Obviously World cup next year in Qatar will be Messi’s last chance to change that and surpass Maradona.
You are right, not only for Messi, but also for a player like CR7, this indicates that the World Cup for both Argentina and Portugal will be one of the teams that will receive the most attention in the world, nor can we leave behind or forget Brazil with Neymar Jr, which, they are very hungry to win the World Cup, until now Brazil is the team that has remained undefeated in the QATAR qualifiers, Messi will not have anything easy in the World Cup, for me he will have the greatest pressure of all.
It can be said that this next World Cup will really be very interesting, especially because of football legends like Messi, Ronaldo, Neymar ...
For all of them, this World Cup will almost certainly be their last chance to win the world title and go into football immortality.
The competition will be great again and world cup will be very uncertain, with a lot of strong teams that have a chance to win the title, such as France, Italy, Spain, England, Germany, Belgium, Portugal, Argentina, Brazil etc.
Very difficult mission for Messi, Ronaldo, Neymar...
It seems to me that in the last 20 years we have a trend that only European teams win titles. Will that change in Qatar?
