🚨🗣️ Zlatan Ibrahimović on Fox Sports:
They overturned Cristiano's 3 match suspension. They didn't send off 2 Portugal players against DR Congo for Red card offense.
Few days ago They disallowed a legitimate Colombia winning goal and now they disallowed a Croatia's goal that could have won them the match.
Why is FIFA giving Cristiano Ronaldo and Portugal so much favoritism?
@FootballFactly Could not be more spot on!!! He is so ridiculous. He needs to tell the whole world because he KNOWS there is a HELL of a GAP between him and 🐐MESSI!!
🗣 Zlatan Ibrahimovic – "Cristiano was shouting 'I'm back' after scoring against Uzbekistan. That's nice. But against Colombia he played the whole game, had one shot, scored zero goals, and finished with a 0-0 draw."
🗣 "Then I watched Messi. He didn't even start the match against Jordan. He came on after 60 minutes, looked at the free-kick, and did what only geniuses do.
Goal, Match won."
🗣 “Another record broken. Seven consecutive World Cup matches with a goal.That's the difference."
🗣 "Some players tell the world they're back. Messi never left."
🗣 "While others are busy making announcements, Messi is busy making history. At 39 years old, he walks onto the pitch and treats football like it's a training session.Free-kicks, records, trophies, goals — just another day at the office."
🗣 "Greatness doesn't need a microphone.
Greatness wears No.10 for Argentina." 🐐🇦🇷👑🔥
🚨🎙️ Zlatan Ibrahimovic on Scaloni confirming Messi will be on the bench against Jordan
“That tells you everything about Messi. He doesn’t chase stats; he puts Argentina first. If he had played for records, there wouldn’t be a record left unbroken”
🚨 For Lionel Messi to equal Cristiano Ronaldo's achievements, He needs:
• 1 UEFA Champions League Title
• 1 FIFA Puskás Award
• 1 European Championship
🚨 But For Cristiano Ronaldo to equal Lionel Messi's achievements, He needs:
• 1 FIFA World Cup
• 3 Ballon d'Or Awards
• 2 European Golden Shoes
• 11 Official Trophies
• 5 Domestic League Titles
• 1 World Cup Golden Ball
• 10 All-Time World Cup Goals
• 163 Official Career Assists
• 2 French League titles and
• 1 Human Hormone
Any disrespect to Lionel Messi from all Ronaldo fans will not be tolerated anymore... 🤔
🎙️ Reporter: “You said the World Cup is just a 7-game tournament. Why do you look so excited after scoring against Uzbekistan?”
Cristiano Ronaldo: “I won’t answer that question.”
🚨🎙️ | Olivier Giroud: “Being a Messi hater might be the most painful job in the world. I almost feel bad for them.”
“Every year they wait for his decline, and every year he gives them another reason to stay silent. Now he’s 38, breaking World Cup records and still deciding matches.”
“At this point, the haters aren’t fighting Messi anymore they’re fighting history.” 🐐🇦🇷❤️
🚨🎙️ Zlatan Ibrahimović on Cristiano Ronaldo saying “I’m back” after scoring a brace:
“I thought he said he never left. I don’t know why he was yelling I’m back.” 😭😭
🚨 Jamie Carragher Blasts Ronaldo After Uzbekistan Brace: "This Changes Nothing"
🗣️ "I've seen people acting like Ronaldo just scored a World Cup final winner against prime Germany. Let's calm down for a second.
Yes, he scored two goals. Fair enough. Strikers are supposed to score goals. But the reaction from some of his fans has been absolutely unbelievable. Social media is flooded with posts talking about 'greatness', 'legacy' and 'the GOAT debate being over' because he scored against Uzbekistan in a group-stage game.
This is exactly the problem. Context disappears whenever Ronaldo scores.
Meanwhile Messi came into the tournament and immediately scored a hat-trick in his first match and followed it up with a brace in the second. Five goals in two games. Yet somehow the conversation today is about Ronaldo finally opening his account against opposition that nobody expected Portugal to struggle against in the first place.
The standards are completely different.
When Messi scores five goals in two games, people say, 'That's Messi being Messi.' When Ronaldo scores a couple against a team ranked far below the elite nations, some fans start talking as if football history has been rewritten.
The GOAT debate was settled by performances on the biggest stages, against the biggest opponents, under the biggest pressure. That's where Messi separates himself. World Cup finals, Champions League finals, Copa América finals — those are the moments that define legends.
Messi has spent years making extraordinary performances look normal. Ronaldo fans have spent years turning ordinary moments into extraordinary celebrations.
Messi remains the benchmark. Messi remains the standard. And for me, Messi remains the greatest footballer the game has ever seen."
Jürgen Klopp on meeting Lionel Messi after his masterclass against Austria and breaking Miroslav Klose’s World Cup goalscoring record:
🗣️ “I’ve just come from the dressing area after watching something I honestly struggle to describe properly… because what Lionel Messi did tonight against Austria was not just a performance, it felt like history being rewritten while the game was still going on.”
“When you break Miroslav Klose’s record at a World Cup, you are not just passing a number you are passing years of World Cup history, generations of strikers, and moments that were once considered untouchable. And he has done it in a way that feels almost effortless.”
“What I saw against Austria was a player who never looked like he was chasing a record at all. He was just playing football at the highest level, making the right decisions every single time, and the record simply followed him like it was inevitable.”
“The most frightening thing for opponents is that he doesn’t force anything. He doesn’t look desperate to score. He just waits, reads the situation, and when the moment comes, it is already too late.”
“I met him after the game and you can’t even see pressure on him. No shaking, no emotion like someone who just broke a historic World Cup record. It is almost like for him, this is normal. And that is the most abnormal thing of all.”
“People will talk about Klose’s record for years, and rightly so, but what Messi has done is take a record that survived generations and make it look like just another step in his career.”
“At this level, scoring goals in World Cups is supposed to be the hardest thing in football. But he has turned the hardest thing into something he repeats under pressure like it is routine.”
“I’ve seen many great players, many great strikers, but I’ve never seen someone make history feel this natural while everyone else in the stadium is fully aware they are witnessing something special.”
“When people look back at this night, they will not just say he broke a record. They will say they watched the moment football history quietly changed its owner.”