Nada contra o Chorume. Muito pelo contrario. Mas vou usa-lo de exemplo pra falar sobre algo que têm ocorrido e me incomoda bastante:
Estamos vendo uma multidão de GAROTOS querendo pautar uma trajetória entre dois jogadores que durou quase 2 décadas. Esses garotos NÃO ASSISTIRAM AS DUAS CARREIRAS POR COMPLETO porque simplesmente não possuem idade suficiente pra terem visto!
Essa parada de “nunca existiu comparação em bola jogada” é uma absoluta mentira! Houve um tempo em que a maré dos dois era tão invertida que um deles chegou a declarar aposentadoria da própria seleção (2016), enquanto o outro só não ultrapassou seu algoz em Bolas de Ouro por razões políticas (2018).
Ninguém me contou. Eu vi. Muitos da minha idade viram. Se você não viu, contente-se em opinar sobre o que viu ou busque os contextos corretos ao longo da trajetória de ambos pra não cometer um anacronismo injusto.
Não tenho problema algum com quem acha X ou Y melhor. Meu problema é com essa tentativa oportunista de tentar reescrever a história como ela se desenrolou e colocar como verdade uma narrativa que é na verdade totalmente subjetiva e que passou por muitas fases ao longo dos anos.
Sejamos honestos com ambos. O futebol merece e eles também.
When people say Ronaldo decided to add goals to catch up with Messi, that statement always make me laugh
Your write is good but it's not balanced
Let me do a proper breakdown for you
Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi comparison first came up in 2007/2008 season during the FIFA Award
It continued that season.... When Manchester United met Barcelona in the Champions League semifinal, it surfaced again...
At that time Ronaldo was having a majestic season already
I remembered when Xavi was asked what he thinks about Ronaldo and Messi...
'Ronaldo is ahead but Messi needs to add goals to his game' - Xavi in 2008
Before Ronaldo started scoring goals......
One of Manchester United's assistant coaches, Rene Meulesteen was the man responsible for Ronaldo's change in style from just a fleet footed dribbler to a winger that scores goals and the complete footballer you see today
Studying Ronaldo's style as someone who wants to dazzle and humiliates opponents, and score just worldies
Meulesteen gave him the videos of Ruud Van Nistelrooy and Alan Shearer for him to study
That was the beginning of Ronaldo's change in style
Sepp Blatter vs Ronaldo
In April 2013, FIFA President labelled Ronaldo a commander while praising Messi as a good boy who every parent would love to have
It was a jibe and mockery on CR7's personality. Blatter later apologized to Ronaldo for his comments
In 2013, the FIFA Ballon d'Or didn't get enough votes after the deadline day, hence it was extended for one week or so
Fortunately for Ronaldo, it was the FIFA World Cup qualifiers between Portugal and Sweden - Ronaldo scored a hattrick and the performance triggered the votes, that was why he won
Messi didn't care much? Who told you that?
In 2010, Lionel Messi was complaining about his inability to score freekicks
During one of the international duty with Argentina, Diego Maradona took Messi aside and taught him some techniques on how to score freekicks
From that moment, he practiced more and became better at it
If you think the rivalry didn't get to Messi, you are deceiving yourself
The only thing is the media likes Messi more than Ronaldo, so he had less pressure and felt protected than CR7 in those early days which is a mental advantage on Messi side
You think Messi didn't feel the pressure when Ronaldo won back to back Ballon d'Or?
In the book titled the Ronaldo and Messi biography written by Guillerm Ballague, Messi admitted the rivalry, the pressure and how he wants to outdo Cristiano
If you also think Messi doesn't want to score goals, you are also deceiving yourself
There was a reason why Zlatan Ibrahimovic failed at Barcelona, he was sacrificed for Lionel Messi
Zlatan hit the ground running until Messi was moved to central position by Pep Guardiola thereby marginalizing Zlatan
While Zlatan sought explanations, Pep didn't answer him and that was the end of his career at Barcelona
That move by Pep enhanced Messi's output
The media didn't force anything, both players were on the same level till Ronaldo finally ditched the wing forward and moved permanently to a central position at Manchester United
Ronaldo has more than 300 assists in his career, that's more than most of the favourites midfielder total career assists
When you say he is not creating, I just laugh!!!
¡¡EL FÚTBOL TIENE MEJORES HISTORIAS QUE EL CINE!!
✅ En 1994, Alfie Haaland, Goran Sorloth y Erik Thorstvedt jugaron con la Selección de Noruega en una Copa del Mundo celebrada en Estados Unidos.
✅ En 2026, Erling Haaland, Alexander Sorloth y Kristian Thorstvedt jugaron con la Selección de Noruega en una Copa del Mundo celebrada en Estados Unidos.
Padres e hijos representando a su país en el torneo más importante que existe. El círculo se completó, señoras y señores.
FÚTBOL EN LA SANGRE.
I have been involved in the poultry business for over a decade, and one practice I have consistently maintained is allocating broken eggs to staff rather than allowing them to go to waste or transporting few broken eggs into town.
The key to making this work successfully is having a strong record-keeping and documentation system. Every business should implement a daily reporting structure that tracks operations, inventory, and staff activities.
Effective record keeping provides real-time visibility into what is happening within the business, helps prevent losses, promotes accountability, and supports informed decision-making.
Your staff also need the Protein.
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In 2012, when I started farming in Kuje Area Council-Abuja, cashew trees were everywhere. Many local landowners planted them as economic trees—not necessarily for commercial production, but because they increased the perceived value of their land.
By 2013, the cashew industry had become a thriving rural economy. During harvest season, heavy-duty trucks lined up at Tipper Garage Junction in Kuje, buying cashew kernels for Nuts processing.
Farmers earned and the entire communities benefited from the value chain.
The boom continued through 2014, 2015, and 2016.
Then greed quietly replaced sustainability.
Instead of allowing the fruits to mature naturally, many people began harvesting prematurely to extract kernels early. The result was predictable: immature kernels flooded the market, quality dropped, and buyers began rejecting consignments.
By 2018, something even more alarming happened. Many of the cashew trees simply refused to fruit. In 2019 and 2020, some produced while others remained barren. By 2021, large numbers of trees appeared diseased and failed to fruit.
Today, the trucks are gone. The once-thriving cashew economy has largely disappeared. The trees remain, but many no longer produce.
What is most disturbing is that nobody seems to know why.
Nigeria has numerous institutions with mandates that should cover issues like this:
• Seed Council of Nigeria
• Forestry Departments and Agencies
• Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development
• Research Institutes and Extension Services
Yet there appears to be little or no publicly available data explaining what happened to the Kuje cashew ecosystem.
A nation that does not invest in research is condemned to repeat its mistakes. We spend billions discussing agriculture, but when an entire economic ecosystem collapses, nobody can explain the cause, measure the impact, or propose a recovery strategy.
Agriculture is not sustained by speeches and conferences. It is sustained by data, research, and institutional memory.
Until we take research seriously, we will continue harvesting from nature without understanding the consequences—and acting surprised when nature stops giving back.
@ChimdiIbeawuchi "Agriculture is not sustained by speeches and conferences. It is sustained by data, research, and institutional memory." Data, research are key fundamentals and we do not pay active attention to it. Such a pain