Dante

Barcelona • Leo Messi🐐

[Dante @FCBDante]

We truly failed him☹️💔

[All About Argentina 🛎🇦🇷 @AlbicelesteTalk]

🚨 Julián Álvarez has submitted a medical report to Atlético de Madrid that he is suffering from depression. @COPE 🚑🔴🔴

[MC @CrewsMat10]

135M. 140M

[rosie @therosieum]

https://t.co/F2G1usjT2E

[All About Argentina 🛎🇦🇷 @AlbicelesteTalk]

They were calling Messi "FIFA boy" only for him to get robbed of the most deserving World Cup Best Player of the Tournament award.

[MC @CrewsMat10]

Cucurella covered his mouth while speaking to Messi. Messi immediately appealed for a red card, but the referee ignored.

[RuF🦅 @Ruf_ayii1]

Bellingham, who hasn't won anything this season, will face Mbappé, who also hasn't won anything. They'll face each other on Saturday to win nothing." 😅😂

[َ𝑺𝒁 @szniic]

Lionel Messi vs England

[J. 🇵🇸 @Messilizer0]

Bellingham went to slap Barco during Argentina celebration

pathetic sore loser

https://t.co/TGZjrVqTvM

[Iker Casillas @IkerCasillas]

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 mete el gol y se va atrás. Planteamiento cobarde. No han salido del área y han permitido a 🇦🇷 llegar más. Sucede lo lógico.

[𝐋𝐑 @LamineRoIe]

Still 0 tweets about the Olise tackle on Rodri from these clown accounts

[" @Bonmatimessi]

looks like the email just went out

[Álex @LxoMessismoFCB]

Le acaban de pisar dos veces el tobillo a Nico Gonzalez y no ha pitado ni falta pero supongo que esto no lo comentará nadie https://t.co/X2CBzi6tfP

[Kobi @UTDKobi]

Our hate for Argentina is making us ignore things like this. If it happened the other way around, everyone would be talking about it

It’s football, moments like this happen. But the outrage only seems to appear when it’s Argentina
https://t.co/CFAa96c5ug

[MC @CrewsMat10]

The anti Messi and anti Argentina agenda on Twitter is insane.

They posted a misleading tweet, only to delete it minutes later.

[Archivo VAR @ArchivoVAR]

🖥️💥 Cobardía absoluta del VAR en el Francia - Marruecos.

👉🏻 Mbappé se deja caer antes de producirse el contacto con Mazraoui.

❌ 𝗡𝗢 𝗘𝗦 𝗣𝗘𝗡𝗔𝗟𝗧𝗜.

▪️ De hecho, es un piscinazo tan descarado que debió conllevar tarjeta amarilla para el francés.

[Winna F.C. @WinnaFC]

🚨| BREAKING: Collina, the greatest referee ever, says it's not a foul but a yellow for Salah's dive.✅

[Juan @fraudiesta1]

They did not think it was a penalty untik Argentina scored 😭

[E @Ellis_]

10 minutes ago when Egypt were winning 2-0 it wasn’t rigged, but now suddenly the World Cup is rigged again? Hm, okay man.

[MC @CrewsMat10]

THIS IS GENUINELY THE FIRST TIME I’VE SEEN LIONEL MESSI CELEBRATE A GOAL LIKE THIS. 🥹🐐 https://t.co/mNUHeKzacU

[Appie Culé @appiecule]

I’m going to take my time with this one. If you’re busy, save this post and read it later. If you’re a night owl like me, this is a good late-night read.

Do you know the worst thing about Cristiano Ronaldo?

It’s that he set the standards for what defines a legend… and in the end, he couldn’t even live up to the standards he created himself.

After winning Euro 2016, Ronaldo said:

“You can’t become a legend until you win a trophy with your national team.”

It was an obvious dig at Messi.

Argentina had just lost the 2014 World Cup final to Germany, and Messi was going through the toughest period of his international career. Those words only added fuel to the fire.

Where was the respect for a rival, Ronaldo?

The surprising part was that social media completely embraced that narrative. Messi was labeled a bottler, while Ronaldo was declared the winner of the rivalry—at least in the media, not on the pitch.

Then Messi retired from international football, came back, won the Copa América, and suddenly they were level in major international trophies.

What happened next?

Ronaldo fans started saying that one Euro is worth more than a hundred Copa Américas, claiming there was no competition in South America. Not true—but that became the excuse.

Then Messi went on to win the World Cup.

This time, the excuses changed again.

They claimed FIFA had fixed the tournament for Messi. That the World Cup was scripted in his favor. They simply didn’t know what else to say.

Then Ronaldo himself came out with one of the strangest quotes imaginable:

“A legend’s career can’t be defined by just seven games.”

At first glance, it sounds reasonable.

But beneath it was another attempt to diminish what Messi had achieved.

Before the World Cup, they insisted it would be Ronaldo’s tournament. On paper, Portugal had a fantastic squad. If the manager couldn’t get the best out of them, that’s Portugal’s problem—not Ronaldo’s.

Yet that same Portugal squad wasn’t any weaker than the Argentina team Messi led to the 2014 World Cup final—the same team people mocked Messi for not carrying to the title.

Just a couple of days ago, Ronaldo said:

“The World Cup doesn’t define my career, whether I win it or not.”

A statement that directly contradicts what he had said years earlier, when he admitted that winning the World Cup would make him feel completely fulfilled.

Now you’re 41 years old, Cristiano.

By your own standards:

* You have 5 Ballon d’Ors, not 8.
* You have one European Championship, not two Copa América titles.
* You never won the World Cup.
* You have four European Golden Shoes, while Messi has six—even though you’re an out-and-out striker.

So what now?

Will you keep playing until the next World Cup and become the first player to appear in one at 45, hoping to finally win it?

If we judged you by the standards you created, you wouldn’t qualify as a legend.

Of course, nobody actually judges you that way. Everyone still recognizes you as one of football’s greatest legends.

The real mistake was comparing Ronaldo to Messi in the first place.

That rivalry was exaggerated from the beginning by the media and figures like José Mourinho.

Messi conquered every major trophy available to him, shattered records that once seemed untouchable, and at 39 years old he’s still competing with Kylian Mbappé and Erling Haaland—the stars of the next generation—for the Golden Boot. And honestly, he could still win it.

What made Messi beloved by so many fans is that he never tried to diminish Ronaldo’s achievements.

Ronaldo, on the other hand, repeatedly made comments that many interpreted as attempts to downplay his greatest rival’s accomplishments—and that’s never an admirable trait.

Cristiano helped create a generation that thinks belittling other people’s achievements while constantly glorifying your own is a way to establish dominance.

Good bye. Ronaldo.