🚨 🇩🇪 Toni Kroos on How the GOAT Criteria Kept Changing;
🗣️"What I find funny is how the narrative kept changing. In 2016, when Cristiano Ronaldo won the Euros while Messi still hadn't won an international trophy, many people still refused to call Ronaldo the GOAT.
Then Kylian Mbappé won the World Cup in 2018, and suddenly the World Cup wasn't enough to make someone the greatest.
But the moment Messi finally won it in 2022, the same people started saying, 'You can't be the GOAT without a World Cup.' That's not consistency, that's moving the goalposts.
I have huge respect for Messi as one of football's greatest ever players after Cristiano Ronaldo but some of his fans have a habit of changing the criteria whenever it suits their argument."
In case you're wondering why America will never be in the World Cup finals, it's because if a young athlete with the speed and agility of Lamine Yamal grew up in America, he'd be playing wide receiver at a college like LSU and then in the NFL like Ja'Marr Chase.