Lionel Messi gets World at Argentina's feet..

What a jubilation. What a win in penalties after 3 - 3 in regular time.

Argentina pile on each other in a mixture of glee and, well, tearful glee. Argentina held their nerve in the penalty shoot-out – with a little help from Emi Martinez’s mind games – and they’ve won their third World Cup! Lionel Messi has his winners medal at last, and the weight of the world is visibly lifted off his shoulders! He smiles, sparkling like a young boy, just a happy lad. What a performance! What a career! What a final.