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The World Cup face-off between Messi and Yamal was always meant to be — and I can’t wait to watch it play out like a movie finale

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On Sunday, Spain will take on Argentina in the World Cup final at Metlife Stadium.

But was this showdown eerily foreshadowed nearly 20 years ago, when a young FC Barcelona star Lionel Messi held and bathed a then chunky baby Lamine Yamal for a charity UNICEF calendar shoot?

Did the soccer gods set this table?

And how did a series of incredible images from 2007 prove so prescient?

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