Five times Lionel Messi proved that he is human

#3 Penalty miss in the Copa America Finals

Messi is devastated after his penalty miss

Talking about the 2016 Copa Centenario finals, the game went into penalties with Argentina trailing throughout the shootout. While Messi had already lost two finals prior to this, he wasn’t a direct cause of the loss.

In this one, though, the little magician missed his penalty (by quite some distance too), allowing Chile to win the tournament for the second year running. While most players miss penalties, Messi is expected to score every time he steps up to the spot but that was not the case in this tournament, which just goes to show that he is human after all.

After the game, the 29-year-old went on to announce his retirement from international football, having lost three major finals with his country.