🗣️ “Your career is like a video game, you keep unlocking new levels until you reach the final”.
😬🇦🇷 Leo Messi: “I already completed the game at the last World Cup in Qatar”.
I’m not for this thing where the best player in the World Cup is expected to win the Balon D’or irrespective of the type of season they had at club level.
It’s why it made no sense to me that Madrid fans were making the argument for Jude Bellingham. What did Bellingham do last season (had subpar season by the way) to deserve winning the Balon D’or over Harry Kane or Declan Rice, given the sort of seasons they both had.
It’s the same way I think it makes no sense that Messi becomes the front runner if he wins it. Let’s all be serious. The entire European season can’t come to nought because X player did not win the World cup.
If you are going to win the Balon D’or off the sort of World Cup you’ve had, my belief is that you must have, at the minimum, had a decent individual season. Then, the World Cup just helps your case and makes it stronger.
Give Messi the World Cup Golden Ball that he rightly deserves and let’s act serious with the Balon D’or please.
1. On 13 July 2026, I published a series of posts on my X (formerly Twitter) account "@n6oflife6" concerning Tobechukwu Victor Okoh, the recording artist professionally known as Peruzzi. In those posts I described him, among other things, as a rapist, a "Nationally Registered Rapist", a "sexual degenerate" and a "Pedophile". I alleged that he committed rape and settled the matter out of court, that he is destitute and unable to sustain himself, and that his history denied him a foreign visa. I invited members of the public to search his name alongside the word "RAPIST". I also published matter concerning his late mother, his father's health and his family's residence.
2. I hereby retract each and every one of those statements fully and unreservedly. They are false. Everything I published was baseless. I relied on unfounded allegations and rumours which I made no attempt whatsoever to fact-check, and nothing I asserted was within my own knowledge. Peruzzi is not a rapist. He is not a registered sex offender of any description. He is not a paedophile. There is no truth in any of the allegations I published about his character, his finances or his family.
3. I published those posts in anger because I believed at the time that Peruzzi had insulted me out of the blue. That belief was mistaken. The truth, which I now acknowledge, is that I was the one who first insulted him, and the diatribe that followed from me was entirely unjustified. Worse still, I allowed faceless netizens to spur me on, without any reason, and with each post I gave them more to work with. I let detractors take my lies and use them to tarnish Peruzzi's image, and I take responsibility for having armed them.
4. I also mocked Peruzzi's beginnings and his work as a songwriter. That too was wrong of me. We would not have the great artists we celebrate globally today if they did not have great songwriters behind them, and it is never a good reason to think less of any artist for any reason. As an artist myself, I ought to have known better.
5. I sincerely and unreservedly apologise to Peruzzi, to his family and to his fans and colleagues in the music industry for the hurt, embarrassment and damage my posts have caused him. I have deleted the offending posts from my account and I undertake not to repeat the allegations or publish any similar matter concerning him, whether directly or indirectly, on any platform.