🗣️ Hossam Hassan:
“Cristiano Ronaldo has always been the player I consider the greatest footballer of all time. Messi is a great player, but I wouldn’t include him in this conversation because of how his country’s World Cup scandals have shaped his career. Ronaldo is my favorite because he has won everything through hard work and dedication.
I always tell my players to look up to Ronaldo because he is a true inspiration.”
🚨🗣️ Salah: "To be honest, England should be the team playing in the final, as we should have been the ones to eliminate Argentina. Football is really unfair these days—referees can just help their favourite teams reach the final."
🚨🇪🇸 Sergio Ramos Fires Back at Claims Ronaldo Can't Be the GOAT Without a World Cup🇵🇹
🗣️"If the World Cup is the only thing that defines the greatest of all time, then you're judging players by their nationality rather than their football.
Some countries simply have more talent and depth than others. Cristiano Ronaldo carried Portugal for nearly two decades and achieved things most players can only dream of.
You can't erase everything he's done because he never won the World Cup. Greatness is built over an entire career, not just seven games every four years."🎙️
🚨🗣 Arsene Wenger on Ronaldo and Messi:
🗣Reporter: "If Messi wins the world cup again, can we put him above Pele, Maradona and Ronaldo?"
🗣 Arsene Wenger: You can place Messi above Maradona and Pele but never above Ronaldo because, Argentina can actually succeed without Messi but Portugal wouldn't have won those trophies without Ronaldo"
🚨🏴 A reporter asked Rio Ferdinand if winning another World Cup would make Messi the GOAT in his eyes.
🗣️Reporter: "Rio, would another World Cup be enough for you to call Messi the greatest of all time?"
🗣️Rio Ferdinand: "Messi could go on and win another world cup trophy, but that still wouldn't change my opinion that Cristiano Ronaldo is the greatest footballer of all time.
Argentina won World Cups before Messi, so it's not as if they were never a football powerhouse. They've always been one of the biggest football nations.
"I believe Argentina had the quality to win the 2022 World Cup even without Messi. A seven-game tournament shouldn't be the only thing that defines who the greatest player in football history is.
Greatness is built over an entire career, and for me, Ronaldo still sets the standard."
🇦🇷 Messi em 2019: “A Copa América e os árbitros foram claramente comprados pelo Brasil. Não dá vontade de jogar.”
🇦🇷 Messi em 2026: “É besteira, quem quer reclamar de arbitragem está apenas chorando.”
Quando convém… 🤷♂️
🗣️ Zlatan Ibrahimović:
“I’m going to be honest here. Even as someone who loves Messi, this World Cup has looked like a tournament prepared for Argentina to win. When I watch other matches and then watch Argentina’s games, it makes me wonder whether the rules are different for Argentina’s players. They don’t play like a team that came to play football; they play as if it’s a karate competition. Yet despite all of that, the referees don’t give them cards.
I have seen so many challenges that deserved yellow or red cards, but the referees refused to show them. For Argentina’s second goal, Messi stepped on Spence, and VAR didn’t review it. Yet against Egypt, VAR disallowed Egypt’s goal for the exact same reason. The same thing has happened in other matches they have played.
I don’t think it’s fair to say this World Cup has been fair because everything points to the fact that they want Argentina to win so badly. It’s very shameful that FIFA has not looked into all of this.”
🚨🗣️ Kylian Mbappe: I don't think the referees wanted us to qualify today. They gave Spain a controversial penalty and wrongly ruled me offside twice when I was clearly onside. It feels like they want the weaker team in the World Cup final, so a certain team can easily win it".
🗣️ Javier Hernández:
“I have never seen a team get favored and protected like Argentina in a World Cup, ever in my lifetime.
I couldn’t believe my eyes watching that first half. I think it was Enzo Fernández who elbowed Elliott in the back of the head, and the referee stood there and did absolutely nothing—not even a yellow card.
They were playing dirty, committing foul after foul, yet no yellow cards were given. This makes Messi’s World Cup questionable because, if we’re being honest, Argentina has been getting protected since the group stage, and the same thing happened in the 2022 World Cup.
No one should be proud of winning a World Cup this way.”