After what may have been his final World Cup match, Lionel Messi was in tears on the field Sunday in East Rutherford, N.J., ruing a missed chance to win ​a second consecutive title for Argentina, Reuters reported. 

Messi, without hinting whether his World Cup career was officially through, congratulated Spain and said the memories will last in an Instagram post Monday.

"The pain is immense, and this wound will take time to heal," Messi wrote in his native Spanish alongside a ​photo of him bearing a silver medal. "But I also hold onto all the good ​things... The matches we turned around by giving it our all--moments that ⁠will remain in our memories forever--and the support of an entire country which, combined with ​this group's hard work and effort, brought us back among the world's elite once again. ​It is hard to fully appreciate our achievement right now, but this group reached two consecutive World Cup finals," according to Reuters.