🚨🗣️ Nico Paz:
“Messi was playing at the 2006 World Cup when I was just one year old. Twenty years later, I came on as his substitute. It’s a dream come true.” 🇦🇷🐐
🚨 Pep Guardiola on Lionel Messi’s Hat-Trick at the Worldcup.
I couldn’t miss the match because Messi was playing. I had to switch the channel from golf immediately to watch him.
I’m both confused and not surprised (laughs). Messi scoring a hat-trick? Yes, because he prefers to assist more than scoring himself. But I wasn’t surprised - especially because one of his goals was cancelled in the first minute. If not offside, it could easily have been four.
I do call him king Leo because he's the greatest player ever.
Cristiano Ronaldo is goalless in his last 10 Portugal games at major tournaments:
𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟐 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐂𝐮𝐩:
❌ vs. Uruguay
❌ vs. South Korea
❌ vs. Switzerland
❌ vs. Morocco
𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟒 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐬:
❌ vs. Czechia
❌ vs. Türkiye
❌ vs. Georgia
❌ vs. Slovenia
❌ vs. France
𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐂𝐮𝐩:
❌ vs. Congo DR
🚨🗣️ Thierry Henry on Lionel Messi's hat-trick vs Algeria:
“WAIT. STOP. HOLD ON.”
🗣️ “I thought people told me Messi was finished?”
🗣️ “I thought people told me age had finally caught up with him?”
🗣️ “I thought people told me the new generation had taken over?”
🗣️ “Then Lionel Messi walks into a World Cup match and scores a hat-trick.”
🗣️ “This is exactly why football fans should be careful before writing off great players.”
🗣️ “Because the truly special ones don't disappear.”
🗣️ “They remind you.”
🗣️ “Again.”
🗣️ “And again.”
🗣️ “And again.”
🗣️ “Three goals. One night. One message to the entire football world.”
🗣️ “‘I'm still here.’”
🗣️ “The scary thing isn't the hat-trick.”
🗣️ “The scary thing is how easy he made it look.”
🗣️ “No panic. No rush. Just football intelligence at a level very few players have ever reached.”
🗣️ “At 38 years old, most players are talking about retirement.”
🗣️ “Messi is talking with his feet.”
🗣️ “And trust me, football is listening.”
🗣️ “Now people will ask me about the Ballon d'Or.”
🗣️ “Can he win it?”
🗣️ “Of course he can.”
🗣️ “If Argentina continue winning and Messi continues producing moments like this, why wouldn't he be in the conversation?”
🗣️ “People act as if greatness has an expiration date.”
🗣️ “Messi has spent twenty years proving that it doesn't.”
🗣️ “And let's talk about Argentina.”
🗣️ “The rest of the tournament should be worried.”
🗣️ “Because when Argentina have confidence and Messi is playing like this, they become a completely different animal.”
🗣️ “World Cup?”
🗣️ “Yes, they can win it.”
🗣️ “Ballon d'Or?”
🗣️ “Yes, he can win it.”
🗣️ “GOAT debate?”
🗣️ “For me, there is no debate.”
🗣️ “Every time people think the story is ending, Messi writes another chapter.”
🗣️ “And somehow, the chapters keep getting better.”
🐐🇦🇷🔥🏆
🗣️ “Lionel Messi isn't chasing history anymore.”
🗣️ “History is chasing Lionel Messi.”
"Ronaldo's name is bigger than his game, because he cares more about personal success than team success"
– @EmmanuelAcho weighs in on Ronaldo's scoreless performance against the Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Scaloni started tearing up and got emotional after Messi was subbed off and the crowd was applauding him, look at his reaction after Messi hugs him 🥹❤️