🎙️ ENVY Demon1 🇺🇸 rejecting the comeback narrative:
"I haven't changed anything in my routine.
I've been the same for the last three years. Individual performance depends on the team.
If you're on a better team, you're gonna get to shine more as an individual. If you're playing on a bad team overall, everyone's gonna play bad."
[@THESPIKEGG]
🎙️ Sentinels Jerrwin 🇮🇳🇨🇦 on the initial hesitation with Marved 🇨🇦:
We thought it'd be kind of a problem playing with someone who hasn't played in a while, but his experience showed...
His comms were great, his plan-making was great. He didn't hold anyone back; he only helped us."
[@PayTheRow]
🚨 “That’s the Biggest Joke of This Tournament” — Mbappé Fires Over Messi Snub
🎙️ Reporter:
“Kylian, congratulations on winning the Golden Boot back-to-back. How does it feel?”
Mbappé:🗣️“Thank you. Of course, I’m very happy—very proud. It’s not something easy to achieve, especially at this level, against the best players in the world. But if I’m being completely honest… I would trade both of them in a second for the World Cup trophy. Individual awards are special, but football is about the team, about lifting that trophy together. That’s the dream.”
🎙️ Reporter:“You mentioned the level of competition—this time you were up against Lionel Messi for the Golden Boot. How tough was that?”
Mbappé:🗣️“It wasn’t easy at all. We’re talking about the best player in the world. Every game, every moment, you’re watching him… and he’s delivering. Scoring, assisting, deciding matches. He had me worried, I won’t lie (laughs). There were nights I couldn’t even relax because I knew what he’s capable of doing the next day. Competing with someone like that pushes you beyond your limits.”
🎙️ Reporter:“Messi had a great tournament, but he still didn’t win the Golden Ball. What do you think about that?”
Mbappé:🗣️“That’s the part I honestly don’t understand. For me, it doesn’t make sense. We’re talking about the greatest of all time… a man who keeps rewriting history, who dominates headlines, who amazes everyone in every single game. He decides big matches like it’s nothing. And we’re saying he’s not the best player of the tournament? For me, that’s the biggest joke in this competition. I don’t see it any other way.”
🎙️ Reporter:“People often call you Ronaldo’s biggest fan, yet you never stop praising Messi. Why is that?”
Mbappé:🗣️“Yes, it’s true—I grew up idolizing Cristiano Ronaldo. He’s the reason I started dreaming the way I do. But that doesn’t mean I should be blind to greatness. What Lionel Messi has done for football… it’s crazy. Even now, at 39, he’s giving players in their prime sleepless nights. And he’s not even a pure striker. That tells you everything. Respect is respect. When you love football, you have to appreciate
Lamine Yamal on Lionel Messi missing out on the Best Player of the Tournament award to Rodri.
🗣️ “Congratulations to Rodri because he’s an unbelievable player. But my heart tells me something different. For me, Lionel Messi deserved that award. What he did at 39 years old wasn’t normal it was something football may never witness again.”
“I’ve spent my whole life hearing people say Messi’s time was over. Yet every time the biggest stage called his name, he answered. He carried Argentina again, decided matches again, and made millions of people believe again. How can someone produce a tournament like that and not be named its best player?”
“I looked across the pitch in the final and I wasn’t just facing an opponent. I was facing the player who inspired my entire generation to fall in love with football. The same man whose videos I watched every day, whose movements every young player tried to copy, was still producing magic against the best teams in the world.”
“For me, this wasn’t just another great World Cup. It was one of the greatest individual tournaments I’ve ever seen. At an age when most legends are remembered for what they used to be, Messi was still showing everyone what greatness looks like in the present.”
“People will celebrate the winner of the award, and they have every right to. But years from now, children won’t be searching for the voting results they’ll be searching for Messi’s highlights, his passes, his goals, his dribbles and the moments that made the world stop and applaud.”
“I was lucky enough to share a World Cup with my idol. If there’s one thing I’ll always say, it’s this: Lionel Messi didn’t need that trophy to prove he was the best player at this tournament. In my eyes, and in the eyes of millions around the world, he had already won it with his football. Some legacies are simply too big for any vote to define.
“I’ve been to like 20 Messi games and this is the first time I’ve seen Messi lose.”
IShowSpeed talks about how this was the first time he had ever seen Lionel Messi lose in person