The thing about hosting the World Cup is you can just be on some tollway cruising along in your rental car and realize that you are 10 feet from the greatest footballer in history, and maybe the most famous person on earth. ๐ฆ๐ท
Between Messi and Ronaldo, Messi was the fastest to reach 100, 200,300,400,500,600,700,800 and 900 career goals with Messi having played 200 less games than Ronaldo and casuals are on here claiming Ronaldo is the greatest goalscorer of all time.. my prayers to y'all tho
Let's even forget the argument about who's actually better between them. If you seriously think that Ronaldo has a better football IQ than Messi, you simply don't have sense. It's that simple, really.
@Cerebrone@Boboye_Ak Sought after by who? He just moved to Ajax from Argentina at 25, 6 months before the World Cup and you're comparing him to one of the most established defensive fullback in the world at the time.
Omo penaldogs reasoning ehn
"There are so many Messi performances that stick with me, but if I had to choose one, it would be the Champions League semi-final against Real Madrid in 2011.
"It was the first leg, at the Bernabeu. Jose Mourinho had us playing in this long grass; we could see they were going for a goalless draw.
"Leo scored the first, then set off on this Maradona-style run, dribbling past opponents. He was on his own against Lassana Diarra, against Xabi Alonso, against Raul Albiol, against Sergio Ramos, and he managed to beat them all.
"We didnโt play any football that day. Nothing was happening. And then Messi turned up. That was what he could do.
"Our team play could be stuttering but we had the trump card of the best player in history. Messi won matches for us on his own."
Xavi lauds his former Barcelona teammate Lionel Messi in his first column for The Athletic.
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