As the Argentina team gets ready for Sunday's World Cup final, Bloomberg reported that annual inflation in the country is expected to hit 99% this month, and economists think it will soon go above 100%.
In 1986, when Diego Maradona led the Albiceleste to the title, the average rate of inflation was 116%. Surveys and data from the central bank show that the rate was 176% in 1978, when Argentina won the tournament it had hosted.
Lionel Messi will play his last World Cup game against France. He was born a year after Maradona won the title in 1986, and fans see him as the next legend after him. The team's run to the final match, which included avoiding early elimination and winning five straight games, was fueled by their talisman. This has brought joy to a country that is once again going through tough economic times.
But this constant part of the country's economy is not a sign that the country will do well in the World Cup. The team lost the final in 1990, when inflation was around 2,000%. When it lost the final in 2014, the official rate was only 22%, but people thought the government had changed the numbers.

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