Raffaello

Pregúntate si lo que estás haciendo hoy te acerca al lugar en el que quieres estar mañana.

[Peñargrol @CAPArgento__]

doscientos millones de goles, ocho balones de oro, un mundial, dos copas americas y grita así el 2-0 a los 95' contra austria. un animal competitivo, nunca va a haber nada igual.

[luke @louorns]

The fact this what said 14 years ago when Messi was 25 is nuts

[fabri 🇦🇷 @fodensss]

si en algún momento consideraste a Cristiano el mejor de la historia déjame decirte que me doy el lujo de sentirme una persona intelectualmente superior a vos

[Marcel Beltran @beltran_marcel]

Cómo cojones les voy a contar a mis nietos quién era Leo Messi sin que piensen que al abuelo ya se le ha ido la cabeza.

[ESPN FC @ESPNFC]

Imagine being this guy celebrating with Messi 😂

[CentreGoals. @centregoals]

Biggest flex of our lifetime.

[ESPN FC @ESPNFC]

1 vs. 5 but the 1 is Messi 🐐

[The Touchline | 𝐓 @TouchlineX]

🚨🤍 𝗡𝗘𝗪: Yan Diomande emotional letter to his late sister:

"Dear Roxane,

Remember when somebody bought me a fake United jersey, and I wrote Ronaldo 7 on the back with the black marker?"

"We didn’t know rich or poor. We just knew happiness."

"Remember 25 people sleeping in one house back in Abidjan? Mum wanted to watch her soap operas. Everyone else wanted to watch movies. Remember how I always used to fake like I was asleep and then go into the TV room after midnight? I’d put the TV on real low. Just like 2 volume bars. I’d watch football in the dark and dream."

"Remember when the adults saw me playing football in the dirt and nicknamed me “Roberto Carlos” because of how hard I would shoot? And remember how I was secretly so mad about it, because CR7 was my idol?"

"Remember when I went to play so far from home? I was 9 years old. Inter Foot Sud Comoé, all the way near the Ghana border. Just a little boy on his own. I don’t know if I ever told you this story, but me and the other kids used to go into the village and steal potatoes because we were so hungry. We did a “bank heist.” Two kids distracting the shop owner, and 18 other kids running out with two potatoes. They weren’t even good. But they tasted amazing. Hahahah. It’s still my favorite thing to eat. Boiled potatoes with some oil. It reminds me of those times."

"Remember when I got my first real football boots, and I used to sleep with them? Growing up, I always played in those white plastic sandals. Even when I go back home now, I still play in them. It’s our tradition."

"Remember when I would come back home, and you would tell my friends from the neighborhood, “Why did you stop training? Yan is not going to buy you cars. You have to keep working."

"You were 10 years old, and already my agent."

"Remember how we used to sit and dream about moving to France? How we were going to go shopping and get our own apartment and I was going to be a rich footballer with cars and a big house, and you wouldn’t have to worry about nothing. You were the one who always believed that I could be the next Cristiano, when everybody else laughed."

"Remember when I moved to America for high school at 15, and I was so homesick? I didn’t know what anybody was saying for months. They sat me next to a French kid, and he tried to translate everything the teacher was saying. Remember when I called you, saying, “You won’t believe it, the kids here argue with teachers."

"Back home, you know we wouldn’t even dare to blink at our elders."

"Remember when I couldn’t believe the kids were smoking after school? You used to say it sounded like I was in an American TV show."

"Remember when they took me on trial at Bournemouth? At Chelsea, Rangers, Olympiacos, Crystal Palace? Eze and Olise even came up to me after one training and said, “Yo kid, you’re really good.”"

"But they still didn’t sign me."

"Even the B teams in the MLS didn’t want me. I didn’t even know why. They never gave me a reason. The adults handled everything. They just kept taking me all around Europe, and everybody kept saying no."

"My visa was up. My dream was over. They sent me back to Africa, and we cried together."

"You were the one who never stopped believing. A few weeks later, I signed for Leganés and we cried different tears."

"That was back when I used to have emotions. Now, I don’t feel anything. It’s like I’m not even human. Since you died, I’m just blank."

"I don’t even think I shed a tear the day they told me that you were gone. I was just in shock."

"It was a few weeks after I made my debut for Leganés. Who makes their debut at 18 against Real Madrid? It was too crazy. It was a dream."

"And then it was a nightmare. Someone kept calling me from back home. I was annoyed. I didn’t understand why they kept calling me."

"I picked up, and they didn’t even soften it. You know how it is back home. No emotions. Just……..

“Your sister is gone.”
“What?”
“She died.”
“What are you talking about?”
“Somebody put something in her drink at a party, and she never woke up. She is gone.”

"You were 15."

"15."

"I never got any answers. I don’t know if I want to know why. Maybe it was jealousy. Maybe it’s just something that happens in our country. Maybe I could have protected you. I don’t know."

"I try to trust God’s plan. It’s all I can do. I don’t try to forget, because I know I won’t forget. All I can do is use the pain to work harder, and to do everything we dreamed about."

"I wrote this because I can’t speak about it. I wrote this because I want you to know that I will make sure that you live on. I will make sure that everybody knows your name. The whole world."

"Everything I do on a football pitch, it’s for you."

"So much has happened since I last saw you…… You would not even believe it. I don’t know if I believe it."

"You know what’s crazy? After my debut against Madrid, I actually swapped shirts with Mbappé. Remember when we used to watch him on TV, and you’d say, “Mbappé? Yeah, he’s good. But my brother is better.”

"I was wrong about one thing. I don’t want to be rich. I see what it does to people, even to family. When I was at Leganés, everything I was earning, I was sending home. It got to the point where I didn’t even want money anymore. It was just a burden. They never stopped asking. I guess they thought I was a millionaire already. I didn’t even have an apartment. I was living at the training ground in a room with no TV. Just football and sleep, football and sleep."

"I didn’t want a big house. I didn’t want cars. I just wanted to put everything into football. Everything to show the world that my sister was right……."

"Ha…. you will think this is funny. When I moved to play at RB Leipzig, I was always late. Well, not late. But I was on time, which in Germany means you’re very late."

"So you already know what I did next. I started arriving 90 minutes early to everything. I was so early all the time that the guys started calling me “The German.”"

"I always have to overdo everything. I have zero chill. You always said that."

"The pitch is the only place that I feel at home anymore. It’s the place where I feel calm, and I can speak to you. I just wish you were still here so I could tell you….. We did it."

"Everything you said came true."

"We’re leaving for the World Cup tomorrow. For real. Your brother is going to play for Côte d'Ivoire, like Drogba, like Yaya, like Gervinho."

"I don’t even look at it like a game. I look at it like a stage. This is my chance to show the whole world what you saw in me. Every time I score, I’ll make sure everybody knows your name. I’ll make sure they don’t forget you."

"You always said that I could be better than Cristiano. If I see him there, I’ll tell him hello for you."

"I’m going to do what you predicted, I swear. Before I even had real boots, you were telling everybody, “My brother is going to be the greatest in the world.”

"I will prove that you were right, or I will die trying... Your brother, Yan."

— @PlayersTribune

[lalomanca @kyabatauvro]

This is the type of that one photo an athlete dreams of and Messi has tons of them.

[𝘼𝙙𝙖𝙢. @gxldeadam]

Como es posible que un fan haya hecho una mejor intro del Mundial que la propia FIFA 💀

[Manuel Olivari @ManuOlivari]

Como la comparación con su rival histórico ya no se sostiene, ahora es contra un tipo 12 años menor.
Y también gana.

[Messi out of Context @OutMessi_]

Tomense un momento para leer la declaración del DT de Argelia, rendido a los pies de Messi, pero con conceptos que no suelen escucharse.

🗣️ Vladimir Petković:

“Llegamos a este partido con un plan, con disciplina y con convicción... pero a veces el fútbol te pone enfrente a un jugador capaz de destruir la mejor preparación con un solo toque de pelota.”

“Lo que produjo Lionel Messi esta noche no fue solamente una gran actuación; fue una clase de fútbol dictada por una de las mentes y talentos más grandes que haya visto este deporte.”

“Les decís a tus jugadores que se mantengan compactos, concentrados, que no le den espacios... y aun así encuentra la forma de crear magia donde no debería existir.”

“Lo más frustrante es que podés hacer muchas cosas bien en defensa y aun así terminar sufriendo, porque ve pases, movimientos y oportunidades que nadie más en la cancha es capaz de ver.”

“A los 38 años, la mayoría de los futbolistas hablan de retirarse, administrar minutos o bajar el ritmo. Messi sigue definiendo partidos de Mundial, rompiendo récords y haciendo que defensores de élite parezcan impotentes.”

“Miré a mi banco después de su tercer gol y había una sensación de incredulidad en todos. No porque estuviéramos perdiendo, sino porque estábamos presenciando algo especial que quizás no vuelva a repetirse.”

“La gente hablará del hat-trick, de los récords y de las estadísticas, pero lo que más me impresionó fue la autoridad. Controló el partido como si el juego se moviera a la velocidad que él decidía.”

“Me tocó enfrentar a grandes jugadores a lo largo de mi carrera, pero esta noche fue diferente. Esta noche se sintió como si la historia del fútbol se hubiera detenido durante noventa minutos para recordarle al mundo exactamente quién es Lionel Messi.”

[Antonella González @soyantosports]

“Es Que lo hace en la MLS”…

Señores, lo hace en todas partes.

MESSI siendo Messi.

[فهد المحياوي @FH_MHY]

2014- كاس العالم صعب، يا فاشل!
2015- 0 القاب دولية مع الارجنتين، لاعب نادي!
2016- لن تصبح مارادونا، دييغو واحد!
2018- الرقصة الاخيرة في موسكو، باي ميسي!

ثم ماذا ؟

2021- كوبا امريكا سهلة، مجهزة، غير محسوبة!
2022- فايلنسميا غير معترف بها، هدية!
2022- كاس العالم مطبوخه، مؤامرة!
2024- كوبا امريكا تافهة، تسويقية!
2026- 😁

أحب هذه الرحلة، التي بدأت بالتقليل والإستنقاص، ثم التهكم والسخرية، ثم العويل والصياح، والبكاء واللطم، رحلة الإلجام واخراس الألسان، رحلة أجبرت الكارهين على أمرين لا ثالث لهم، الوقوف للتصفيق أو إظهار مشاعر عكسية تناقض الشعور الداخلي!

ميسي ..
الثابت وسط معاييرهم المتقلبة والمتلونة 🐐🇦🇷

[Salvador Iglesias Jr @Javisness]

Kylian Mbappé superando el récord de Messi

Messi superando un nuevo récord ese mismo día

[Diego Wainstein @diegowainstein]

Los que reclaman roja a Messi por un pisotón sin intención.
(Que ni los Argelinos reclamaron)
Son las viudas del Real Madrid que aún lloran por Qatar.
Aprendan algo de fútbol y del reglamento muchachos.
Quedan muy pelotudos.
Nosotros admiramos a Ronaldo Y Mbappé.
Porque nos gusta el fútbol.
La pasión no nos quita inteligencia.
Hay que ser menos boludo.
Y más generoso con el propio cerebro.

[Noorie @Nurapost]

If you don't like Messi, it's either because he humiliated your favorite club or because he's better than your favorite player.

[🥤 @TheImmortalKop]

There’s genuinely people out here who actively hate watch Messi every game, must be a rough life

[Invictos @InvictosSomos]

Si la persona con la que estás hablando de fútbol te dice que este señor no es el mejor jugador de la historia, levántate de la silla y no vuelvas más. No tiene que caso seguir hablando con alguien que ve el juego de espaldas. El más grande de todos los tiempos es uno solo y, sí, se llama Lionel Andrés Messi Cuccittini. NO HAY DEBATE.

[Otro Culé Mexicano @OtroCuleMexa]

Debe de ser durísimo para Mbappé y Haaland estando en la élite del fútbol y en su plenitud física darse cuenta que el señor de casi 39 años de vacaciones en Estados Unidos sigue siendo mejor jugador de fútbol que ellos