In the early hours of yesterday, Lionel Messi chose a make-or-break battle to produce one of the greatest individual World Cup master-class for a television audience running into millions, if not billions, and among those watching the show from a distance was Zimbabwe international football star Khama Billiat.
The diminutive Argentine superstar single-handedly dragged his country from the grim possibility of the horror of a failed World Cup qualifying campaign, for the first time in almost half-a-century -- and a possible humiliating end to an international career that has always flirted with disaster -- to the beautiful adventure of a Russian Roulette next year.
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