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World Cup champion Messi decides to remain at PSG.

Lionel Messi will celebrate his World Cup win by deciding to stay at Paris Saint-Germain (PSG), local media proclaimed on Wednesday, as he endeavors to guide the French flank to an elusive Champions League title which they are still to conquer.

The 35-year-old, who guided Argentina to win in the World Cup final against France in Qatar last weekend, will agree to an extension of another season to his existing contract in the French capital which would have expired in the summer.

Le Parisian and RMC Sport conveyed that Messi will sit down with PSG president Nasser Al-Khelaifi and other leading club officials when he returns after his World Cup leave.

Messi entered PSG in 2021 on a two-season contract with an option for another year after having spent his entire proficient career with Barcelona. The seven-time Ballon d'Or prizewinner collected four Champions League titles in 2006, 2009, 2011, and 2015 in Spain as well as 10 La Liga peaks.

On Sunday, he uplifted Argentina to a penalty shootout triumph over France in the World Cup 2022 final after the epic battle had ended 3-3 in extra time.

Messi was crowned as the player of the tournament, winning the tournament's golden ball - scored two times in the match against PSG teammate Kylian Mbappe clutching a hat-trick for France.

FIFA investigating how ‘Salt BAE’ entered the World Cup final pitch.

FIFA has started an investigation into the fact of how some individuals attained “undue access” to the field in the World Cup 2022 final after photos and videos of Turkish celeb chef Nusret Gokce celebrating with Argentina’s players went viral on social media.

Nusret Gokce, a celeb who is the owner of a chain of restaurants and is known as ‘Salt Bae’ for his theatrical style of sprinkling salt on his steaks. Gokce has posted videos and images on his Instagram profile of himself with Argentine players after their triumph over France in the 2022 World Cup final.

Moreover, Gokce was also photographed carrying the World Cup trophy. As per FIFA’s website, the trophy can only be touched by a “very select group of people,” including ex-winners and heads of state. Videos were spreading on social media and also directed Gokce gripping for Lionel Messi’s arm in an endeavor to attract the Argentina captain’s attention.

“Following a review, FIFA has been establishing how individuals gained undue access to the pitch after the closing ceremony at Lusail Stadium on 18 December,” the world football’s governing body stated in a notice. “The appropriate internal action will be taken.” Gokce ran viral in 2017 after publishing videos of himself salting meat with a cobra-like maneuver.

He has almost 50 million followers on Instagram and has aided in launching Nusr-Et restaurants, which charge several hundred bucks for some stakes of meat, in a limited number of places across the globe. The restaurateur has been photographed with several footballers and other superstars at his restaurants, the list includes Polish footballer Robert Lewandowski and French young sensation Kylian Mbappe. He also published a video of an earlier meeting with Lionel Messi to his Instagram account earlier this week.

Russian Nobel Peace laureate slams against Putin’s ‘insane and criminal war’ on Ukraine.

Russian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Yan Rachinsky slammed Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “insane and criminal” act toward Ukraine in his award acceptance speech in the capital of Norway, Oslo on Saturday.

Rachinsky, who is from Russia’s human rights organization Memorial, claimed that resistance to Russia is known as “fascism” under Putin, stating that it has been “the ideological justification for the ferocious and criminal war of aggression against Ukraine.”

Memorial, one of Russia’s most renowned and respected human rights organizations, worked to expose the abuses and atrocities of the Stalinist time over three decades - before it was ordered to shut down by the country’s Supreme Court late in the last year.

Ukrainian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Oleksandra Matviichuk also called for an international tribunal against Putin. Also, Belarusian strongman Alexander Lukashenko in order to establish justice over “war crimes” in her award receiving text.

Matviichuk, who received the award on behalf of her very own human rights organization, the Center for Civil Liberties in Ukraine, said this would be a good way to “ensure justice for those affected by the war.”

Matviichuk warned that war criminals should not only be convicted after the fall of authoritarian regimes, saying - “justice can not wait.”

Human rights groups from Russia and Ukraine – Memorial and the Center for Civil Liberties – were officially honored with the Nobel Peace Prize for 2022 on Saturday, along with the jailed Belarusian lawyer Ales Bialiatski. Bialiatski’s spouse collected his award on his behalf at the ceremony. The three winners will share the prize money of 10 Million Swedish Krona (equivalent to 900,000 USD).

The new laureates were admired for “an outstanding effort to document war crimes, human right abuses and the abuse of power” in their respective countries.