I don't really get this? What's the point of mentioning he still don't consider Messi the the best. Let him believe what he wants, and support who he wants. Doesn't really matter.
Roy Keane still refuses to call Messi the greatest of all time and says "He's still behind Ronaldo"
Neville: "Is this the greatest football player of all time? What we've just seen against England to score two goals in the last five, ten minutes at his age"
Keane: "I can't say the greatest ever"
Neville: "Can we now start to place him above Pele and Maradona?"
Keane: "He's still behind Ronaldo"
Wright: "We're still not ready to anoint him. Maybe we have to wait till Sunday evening. He's got the last World Cup, he's got this one if he does it, then that's two World Cups"
Keane on Messi: "Just given the toffee-class man a victory. I am in the end"
مصر استحقت الفوز اليوم؟ مليون بالمئة نعم
مصر قدمت عظمة؟ نعم جداً جداً
بس يعني انا وانت وصلاح واللاعبين والجهاز الفني وكلنا عارفين انه لايوجد ضربة جزاء 1%
طبيعي الطرف الثاني يكون مقهور وانا متفهم الغضب اللي صار لهم عشان السيناريو مع مصر مقرف
بس لازم نحن نقلب الوضع سياسية ودين وان التحكيم وسخ والفيفا مرشية وكلام درامي وطبعاً عشاق حمدون موجودين كي يشهدوا للعروسة
Funny how Salah hasn't said a single word about the refs, VAR, or FIFA after the match. Just like no Cape Verde player complained after theirs.
Yet the same accounts flooding the timeline with "the World Cup is rigged for Argentina" were completely silent when Modrić openly claimed that VAR and the referees were favouring Portugal.
That tells you everything you need to know. This outrage isn't genuine, it's manufactured. Either by people deliberately pushing an agenda, or new "soccer" fans who've jumped on the latest bandwagon.
91 year old legendary Argentinian journalist Macaya Márquez was in press conference, covering his 18th (!) World Cup 🐐
“Let me ask you… will Messi play against Jordan or not?” 😬
“I’d never reply to any journalist on this topic now… but it is coming from you, and so I tell you: Messi will not start” 👏🏼
“I respect you too much, I’m proud to see you here”, added.
Scaloni then went to hug Márquez and took a picture 🫂🥹
Two absolute legends. 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚 𝐠𝐮𝐲. 👏🏼
🎥 @okdobleamarilla
Cape Verde btw, wow. Just wow. The story of the entire group stages for me.
Unbeaten in a group where no one could see them finishing anywhere but last. Largely positive in their style, it felt like they enjoyed every second of being in the World Cup.
This is what football is about. Beautiful storyline. And it continues to write itself. Thoroughly deserved.
🚨 When the players went back to the locker room, and Fede Valverde kept accusing Tchouaméni of leaking to the press, Tchouaméni went up to him, and calmly told him that he needs to stop with the accusations, and that they need to make PEACE.
But Valverde REFUSED to stop and kept going.
When he kept going, Tchouaméni threw a HEAVY PUNCH at Valverde's face, immediately dropping him to the floor, where he hit his head and cut it.
Valverde looked very dizzy and almost unconscious, and was taken out in a wheelchair. @diarioas
The reason we were so poor in the 2nd half vs PSG and pretty much the whole match tonight is because Flick doesn't make any changes to our build up when are up against a very aggressive man-to-man press.
We continue relying on Pedri & Frenkie even when they're clearly being targeted.
No wingers shifting inside to create superiority, no striker dropping to support, no going long & focusing on winning 2nd balls, minimal going directly in behind for the wingers, even when we bypass the press with passes from the CBs straight to Lewandowski/Olmo, there's little to no support from the wingers who tend to stay wide.
It's just more of the same.
If the Ballon d’Or is about the most impactful player in 24/25: Lamine/Raphinha/Salah deserve it.
If the player d’Or is about the most consistent player in 24/25: Pedri’s your guy.
If the Ballon d’Or is about trophies + sphere heading overall success: Dembele’s #1.
Historically, number 3 has been prioritised.
🚨📲 | Fermín on IG: "The bad people will never win, nor those who turn their faces the other way, nor those who make betrayal a way of life and cowardice their banner. It's just a matter of time. They lose every day because the mask they cover themselves with every morning, sooner or later, fades away, and they end up showing the world their true selves as they really are."