Glokes

[🇦🇷RestricePlanox❤️💙 @RPlanox]

“I’d rather lose like Ronaldo than win like Messi.”

2016 UCL: Ramos’ opening goal in the final was offside.

2017 UCL: Vidal’s dismissal was heavily disputed; Ronaldo then scored two offside extra-time goals against Bayern.

2018 UCL: Marcelo’s clear handball against Bayern was ignored and even he admitted it.

Euro 2016: Portugal drew all three group games, advanced as a best third-placed team under the new 24-team format and won only once in 90 minutes.

Wales got denied a clear foul before the corner that produced Ronaldo’s semifinal opener.

In the final, Éder handled the ball, yet Koscielny was booked. Portugal hit the bar from the resulting free-kick and scored a minute later.

Ronaldo’s wins came with offside goals, escaped reds and refereeing gifts.

But his fans only discovered “integrity” when Messi started lifting trophies.

They never worried about controversy.

They hated that football moved on and their manchild was no longer relevant enough to benefit from it.

And also notice how post VAR introduction that manchild hasn't won anything worthy.

[🇦🇷RestricePlanox❤️💙 @RPlanox]

Ronaldo fans mock Messi for losing finals when Ronaldo couldn’t even reach Messi’s level of failure. 😭

Cristiano Ronaldo:
41 finals.
26 won, 15 lost.
25 goals, 2 assists.

Lionel Messi:
52 finals.
39 won, 13 lost.
35 goals, 17 assists.

Messi reached 11 more finals, produced 25 more goal contributions and still lost fewer of them.

And in the only Champions League final they played against each other?

Messi scored.
Barcelona won 2–0.
Ronaldo watched his European crown pass directly to him.🇦🇷🐐

Fewer finals. More defeats. Far less output.

They bring Ronaldo into these comparisons only for the numbers to escort him back out. 🤫🤫

[Danny of Ihiala ✊ @ndchukwubuzor]

It is obviously easy to talk about Leo’s greatness when it comes to football itself.

Even if a new metric emerges in football in the future, I can confidently say Leo will still rank, unarguably, among the top five.

This isn’t hype; it's reality!

[STOP THAT LAMINE!!!! 🇳🇬🇳🇬 @bayern_MOB]

Ronaldo literally blocked lineker for saying messi is better than him.. also we don’t even know if messi blocked that guy

[Glokes @Glokes1]

@VibesAcu @_De_Boogey_Man Yeah, and how many golden boot award has he won compared to Messi, look it up? Even when u limit it to UCL its just 7 to 6 top scorer awards.

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[Mucho culé  @FCBarcelona_D]

يبدو أننا سنضطر لشرحها لكم بالخشيبات.

[Appie Culé @appiecule]

I’m going to take my time with this one. If you’re busy, save this post and read it later. Don’t miss this trust me.

I just want to put one final point on Messi’s story: football has never truly been an individual sport—except when it came to him.

Football is a team game. No matter how great you are, you still need the players around you to compete, even if the entire system is built to maximize your strengths.

Yet even with Messi, people kept repeating the same old narrative about Xavi, Iniesta, and Guardiola. The reality is that Messi only spent about four years playing with that historic generation, and even that team looked lost before Guardiola arrived. Messi contributed just as much to their greatness as they did to his.

When that generation left, Barcelona became almost entirely dependent on Messi for two years. Then Luis Enrique arrived, along with Suárez and Neymar, not to carry Messi, but to help share the burden.

After Neymar left, and with Suárez well past his best, Messi was once again carrying Barcelona almost entirely by himself, surrounded by average players. He was one game away from another historic treble, and once again, he was the team’s standout player.

Many people forget that in 2014, after Messi became La Liga’s all-time leading scorer with a hat-trick against Sevilla, Barcelona fans were handed flyers asking: “What if you woke up tomorrow and Messi was no longer at Barcelona?” Even then, some people still couldn’t bring themselves to give him the credit he deserved.

Messi even wanted to leave in 2020, and the situation nearly ended up in court. But he stayed because he didn’t want to fight the club he loved. In the end, he was still forced out in one of the saddest exits in football history.

Argentina was no different.

For years, Messi carried one of the worst-run national teams in modern football. In 2010, Maradona played Germany with four attackers because he believed more forwards meant more goals. Argentina lost 4–0.

Yet Messi was the one blamed.

He was called a failure, a choker, and a coward by people who ignored the reality that, without him, Argentina might not even have qualified for the 2014 World Cup. Every Copa América final they reached was because Messi got them there in the first place.

The difference was enormous: with Messi, Argentina reached finals; without him, they struggled even against much weaker opponents.

The 2022 World Cup wasn’t just about a great team—it was also about Messi bringing confidence, leadership, and belief to a group of players who followed him. He carried the responsibility while everyone else played their role.

Even in the latest World Cup, at 39 years old, Messi was covering huge areas of the pitch, playing 120 minutes repeatedly, and constantly finding new ways to win games almost by himself.

Most people will never care about these details or this context. Future generations will only look at trophies and short tournaments.

In the end, every argument people used against Messi eventually disappeared. They said he had no World Cup—he won it. They said he had no Copa América—he won it too.

To me, Messi is the most unfairly judged player in football history. No player has been blamed for more things beyond his control or had more false narratives attached to his name.

That’s Messi’s story—through logic, reality, and everything he had to endure.

[🇦🇷RestricePlanox❤️💙 @RPlanox]

Football has given us many unforgettable primes.

🇧🇷Ronaldo Nazário exploding past defenders.
🇧🇷Ronaldinho turning stadiums into carnivals.
🇧🇷Neymar playing with the imagination of a street footballer.
🇫🇷Henry gliding across the pitch.
🇵🇹Cristiano attacking goals with terrifying hunger.
🇦🇷Maradona carrying dreams on his left foot.
🇧🇷Pelé making greatness look inevitable.
🇧🇷Kaká surging through midfield with effortless, vertical elegance.
🇪🇸Iniesta escaping impossible spaces with the ball still tied to his feet.
🇪🇸Xavi controlling entire matches as though everyone else was playing to his rhythm.
🇳🇱Robben cutting inside onto his left foot—even when the entire stadium knew it was coming.
🇪🇬Salah turning a few metres of space into panic, acceleration and goals.
🇫🇷Zidane making the most difficult actions in football look completely casual.

Every legend had a period when football seemed to belong entirely to them.

But with Lionel Messi, nobody can agree on where the prime begins or where it ends.

Was it the fearless teenager?

The 22-year-old Ballon d’Or winner?

The 25-year-old who scored 91 goals in one calendar year?

The 27-year-old who conducted another historic treble?

The 35-year-old who conquered the World Cup and became its first two-time Golden Ball winner?

The 38-year-old winning the MLS Golden Boot, league MVP and MLS Cup MVP?

Or the 39-year-old carrying Argentina to a World Cup final with second most highest goal contributions in the WC?

Other legends gave football a beautiful prime.

Messi gave football an entire lifetime of it.

He never aged out of greatness.

He simply kept changing its form. 🐐🇦🇷

THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME 🐐

[Glokes @Glokes1]

@dottywhine @SamuelOsag88724 @ultimate_kombo Whatever makes you happy bro, clearly you are the smart one who has just proved Bovi right, conveniently leaving out the Golden boot award and telling us that its the lesser awards that CR9 wins the most, I can bet you won't also agree that Messi is a more proficient goal scorer.

[EDDIE FLEISCHMAN @E_FLEISCHMAN]

Nunca nadie gambeteó a esa velocidad, con menos espacios y de forma más repetitiva y productiva.

Aquí solo un “puñado” de centenas de acciones similares.
No todas terminan en la red, pero todas son magia.

Disfruten de lo excepcional hecho rutina.

[Irving Gatell @IrvingGatell]

Las cosas que me quedaron claras respecto a este mundial:

1. Messi es el mejor futbolista de toda la historia
2. España es un digno campeón
3. La tecnología ha impactado negativamente en el futbol
4. Hubo una campaña orquestada -aunque con mucho colaborador espontáneo- contra Argentina
5. Llegó a su fin la última gran época del futbol; lo que viene por delante va a ser MUY aburrido

Sobre esto último vale la pena ampliar un poco.

La rivalidad Messi vs. CR7 dominó las últimas dos décadas del futbol. Fue el clímax de un deporte en el que todavía importaba más la disciplina y el talento que las Relaciones Públicas y las Redes Sociales.

El cambio llegó, y fue gracias al talento sobresaliente de Messi y CR7 (y otros como Modric, Suárez, Neymar, Kroos, etc.) que todavía hasta este mundial pudimos disfrutar de lo mejor del futbol.

Pero ha llegado la era híper tecnologizada, el futbol de Instagram y TikTok, X y Facebook. Y el problema no es el uso que los jugadores le den a las redes para construir una imagen (verdadera o falaz, da igual), sino la presión que las redes sociales provocarán en los equipos, los entrenadores, los árbitros y las instituciones.

De hecho, la final del mundial fue el ejemplo perfecto de ello: después de todas las controversias acumuladas durante todo el torneo, está muy claro que Argentina -un equipo al estilo de la vieja escuela- no supo o no pudo manejar todo ese estrés. Los españoles, más jóvenes y acostumbrados de manera natural a eso, ni siquiera lo resintieron.

Así va a ser la era de M'bappe, Haaland, Cucurella, Pedri, Yamal y Vinicius, un futbol que no se va a resolver nada más en la cancha, sino en las redes sociales.

No me gusta. Con la final del mundial creo que ha muerto mi interés por ese deporte. Me siento como cuando Ayrton Sena murió en un trágico accidente y Alain Prost decidió retirarse. Con el final de esa rivalidad -idéntica en todo sentido a la de Messi vs. CR7- acabó una época brillante de la F1 (la de Piquet, Mansell, Patrece, Naninni, heredera a su vez de la de Fangio, Roseberg o Fittipaldi), y llegó la de figuras ultradominantes como Schumacher, Hamilton o Verstappen.

Dirán que estoy viejo y el mundo actual empieza a incomodarme, pero nunca me van a quitar el placer de saber que pude ver en vivo y directo el futbol más bonito de toda la historia, plagado de figuras que nos regalaron momentos inolvidables. Las nuevas estrellas tal vez lleguen a romper algunos récords, pero no creo -soy pesimista del todo- que nos vayan a hacer vibrar como esos clásicos del Barça vs. Madrid en los que se nos iba la vida.

Con este mundial llegaron a su fin las carreras de Messi y CR7, y con ellos murió una época.

El símbolo de dicha era será, inevitablemente, Lionel, el único que pudo conjuntar en su persona casi todos los récords del mundo.

Háblese, de ahora en adelante, del fútbol en términos de Antes del Messías y Después del Messías.

[🇦🇷RestricePlanox❤️💙 @RPlanox]

The biggest myth in World Cup history is that Pelé carried Brazil to three titles.

The facts tell a very different story.

1958:
Best player — Didi 🇧🇷
Top scorer — Just Fontaine 🇫🇷, 13 goals

1962:
Best player — Garrincha 🇧🇷
Joint top scorer — Garrincha 🇧🇷, 4 goals
Pelé was injured after just two matches.

1970:
Best player — Pelé 🇧🇷
Top scorer — Gerd Müller 🇩🇪, 10 goals
And Brazil had arguably the greatest squad ever assembled.

Now compare that with Messi.

2014:
World Cup Golden Ball.
Carried Argentina to the final.

2022:
World Cup Golden Ball.
Scored in every knockout round and won the trophy.

2026:
12 goal contributions — 8 goals and 4 assists.
At 39 years old, carried Argentina to another World Cup final.

Finished just two behind Mbappé, who boosted his tally in a ridiculous 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿6–4🇫🇷 third-place match.

A 39-year-old Messi came within two contributions of leading the entire World Cup while playing for the trophy until the final minute.

That is out of the world. 🇦🇷🐐

Pelé won three World Cups with legendary Brazilian teams.

Messi was Argentina’s best and most decisive player across three separate runs to the final.

There is a difference between being part of greatness and carrying the weight of an entire nation. 🇦🇷🐐

[Glokes @Glokes1]

@_De_Boogey_Man @VibesAcu That's what most CR7 fans don't understand when they tout his nominal goals and don't look at proficiency aspect-goal/game ratio. If u dare tell them Messi is more prolific they will call you a mad fool.

[Osita Chidoka @osita_chidoka]

Watching Lionel Messi at the 2026 World Cup, I found myself turning over one of the oldest questions a working life presents.

We are often told: leave when the ovation is loudest. It is sound advice. But I no longer believe it is the whole truth.

I believe that there is a time to step aside, when others must be given room to lead, or when we can no longer serve as we once did. But there is also a quieter danger: leaving too soon, not because we are finished, but because we are afraid of what a stumble might do to how we are remembered.

A stumble in the second act does not erase the first, and an exit timed to applause is no guarantee that history will remember you at all.

Messi could have walked away after 2022. Trophy in hand, story complete, the perfect close to a perfect career. Instead, he came back.

He risked comparison with the man he used to be, the possibility of falling short in front of a watching world, the chance that this second act would dim what the first had built. Argentina did not lift the cup this time.

But at thirty-nine, his composure and his experience still carried his country to a final. That is not a small thing.

His legacy was not diminished by trying again. If anything, it was enriched.

That is the deeper truth.

Do not retire from your purpose because you fear failure more than you love the work.

If your work remains honest, your contribution still matters, and you still have something left to give, then keep going.

A life well lived is measured as much by the courage to continue as by the wisdom to know when to stop.

Conquer fear. Keep playing the game of life.

Osita Chidoka
20 July 2026

[KOMBO™ @ultimate_kombo]

So Portuguese Fans wey no dey cry no welcome back Ronaldo and Portugal like this ??

Oops my bad
Them no dey welcome back Failures 😭😭😭

[Glokes @Glokes1]

@dottywhine @SamuelOsag88724 @ultimate_kombo Puskas award? Well whatever makes you happy. So if we dey talk Oscar and Grammies, some people go dey bring up AMVC and headies.

[Glokes @Glokes1]

@miniredhood12 @dottywhine @ultimate_kombo Please bear with him, they just keep proving Bovi right. Creating his own alternate reality is the only way he can his Anti Messi Derangement Syndrome.

[PROLACTIN 💉🏃🏽‍♂️🩺 @prolactin_]

What are we even saying ??

Messi faced Ronaldo 37 times. He won 17, Ronaldo won 11. Both have 23 goals. Messi had 12 assists, Ronaldo had 1.

Messi won 18 MOTM awards, Ronaldo won just 1.

Messi literally owned him.

[Fredphilip @Fredphilip96527]

All ogumekpon fans don confess finish 😂😂😂😂

[Bright West @BrightWext]

Comparing this guy to any footballer should be a crime punishable by D3ath