Lionel Messi spoke to the media for the first time after winning the World Cup with Argentina's national team in Qatar.

The PSG player gave an interview to the Urbana Play radio station of Buenos Aires.

Messi revealed that he always felt that "God was going to give him the Cup".

"What I dreamed and wished for came true, and it happened almost at the end of my career", said the man born in the city of Rosario.

He also said that the night before the final against France he "slept very well", and that he was very relaxed throughout the World Cup because he felt that "we were doing well".

He also recalled returning to the country with the World Cup and the celebrations.

"It was beautiful to come back like that," Messi said... "it was crazy, the happiness of the people, big and small, was inexplicable."

"The best thing of all," said the Albiceleste captain, "was how the people behaved, because there were five million people and nothing happened.

He also referred to the tension in the quarterfinal match against the Netherlands, when he made a provocative gesture to coach Louis Van Gaal.

"I didn't think about it, it came out in the moment - Messi confessed - I knew everything that had been said about Argentina before the game, what Van Gaal had said about us, about me".

"I don't like to leave that image but these are things that happen too," revealed Argentina's No. 10.