When Messi got substituted vs Algeria, there was no seat on the bench, so Thiago Almada offered him his seat. He refused and sat on the ground. Humble ❤️
🚨🎙️🇫🇷 Didier Deschamps on Lionel Messi after equalling Miroslav Klose's World Cup goals record with a hat-trick against Algeria:
🗣️ “What Lionel Messi is doing now is no longer something you analyze like regular football... it's something you just watch and accept as greatness unfolding in real time.
As a coach, you spend days preparing structure, control and balance... then a player like him steps onto the pitch and bends all of that completely in ways you can't fully plan for.
To equal Miroslav Klose's World Cup tally with a hat-trick, at this stage of his career, is no longer just a performance — it's football history being rewritten before our eyes.
There are great players, there are legends... then there's Messi doing things that seem nearly impossible to replicate.”
Zinedine Zidane sobre la controversia de la tarjeta roja a Lionel Messi contra Argelia:
🗣️ “He visto el incidente con Lionel Messi varias veces ya, desde diferentes ángulos, y honestamente no entiendo cómo algunas personas están pidiendo una tarjeta roja.”
“Sí, hay contacto. Nadie lo niega. Pero el fútbol es un deporte de contacto, y cada contacto no se convierte automáticamente en una expulsión solo porque las redes sociales quieren una historia más grande.”
“Lo que me decepciona es que la gente esté pasando más tiempo hablando de un momento accidental que hablando de la obra maestra futbolística que Messi produjo durante noventa minutos.”
“Un jugador marca un hat-trick, rompe récords, domina un partido de la Copa del Mundo, y de alguna manera la conversación se convierte en un desafío que duró unos segundos. Eso lo dice todo.”
“Para mí, la intención importa. El contexto importa. La velocidad de la acción importa. Y cuando miro el incidente, veo una acción de fútbol, no a un jugador tratando de lastimar a un oponente.”
“Creo que algunas personas ya se habían formado una opinión antes de que se mostrara la repetición. Si ese mismo incidente involucrara a otro jugador, no creo que todavía estuviéramos discutiéndolo horas después.”
“La verdad es simple: Messi no escapó de una tarjeta roja. No había una tarjeta roja de la que escapar. El árbitro lo vio, el VAR lo revisó, y llegaron a la misma conclusión.”
“En lugar de buscar controversia, tal vez deberíamos apreciar lo que presenciamos esta noche: uno de los mejores jugadores en la historia del fútbol entregando otra actuación inolvidable en la Copa del Mundo.”
Man, every time I look at Argentina's squad, it never really looks like the squad of "the best team in the world" on paper.
You look at the clubs they play for, their individual status, their club form, and compared to some other national teams there's nothing overwhelmingly special about it.
But the moment they put on that Argentina shirt, everything clicks. Suddenly they're playing with incredible chemistry, balance, intensity, and confidence. The whole becomes far greater than the sum of its parts.
We have to give the credit to Scaloni for that. What a manager. And when you remember the state Argentina were in when he first took over in 2019 compared to where they are now, it's honestly one of the greatest international coaching jobs we've ever seen.
He might genuinely be the GOAT of international managers.
" You go to jail for stealing a chicken but you become a governor for stealing a billion shillings "- Nyawanga Owuor.
( Video Courtesy of Sauti Sessions
🚨🇦🇷 𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚: Lionel Messi's father is NOT in good health. He has a serious health problem and this week his condition has worsened a little more.
Messi is suffering from this personal issue and that's why he got emotional after his goal last night.
— @edufeiok