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AS Roma and Lionel Messi.

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@FabrizioRomano He wasn’t even the best player in that game. Yet another entry on FIFA’s list of decisions that favored Portugal.

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@Messilizer0 I genuinely don’t think I’ve ever seen a more rigged World Cup match. Ronaldo has stained our beautiful game.

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@FabrizioRomano I’m not watching the match. Let me guess, it was a penalty?

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@FabrizioRomano I’m not watching the match. Let me guess, it was a penalty?

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@BCNOgi It’s so fucking rigged for them, man.

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@Gideoomatic Notice how the other guy nearly snapped his opponent's ankle in half.

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@treborfacts https://t.co/6rDBxpzS20

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@jeffwellz 116 G/A in a single season is unfathomable, even today. If not for cameras, people hundreds of years from now would think that Lionel Messi was nothing more than a myth.

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@jeffwellz 116 G/A in a single season is unfathomable, even today. If not for cameras, people hundreds of years from now would think that Lionel Messi was nothing more than a myth.

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@Messilizer0 Is Ronaldo genuinely in contention for the worst World Cup player of all time, considering his “GOAT” stature?

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@EmmanuelCl71145 They’d downplay the goal-to-game ratio until it suits their narrative. In fact, if we consider everything by ratio, Messi is ahead of Ronaldo in every single metric.

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@AlbicelesteTalk Every word spoken here clearly shows on the pitch. The way he plays, the way his teammates run for him, the way the system just flows.

Scaloni didn’t just build a team, he built a home for the greatest player alive.

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@FabrizioRomano He should stay at Como for his own good.

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@Cleverlydey4u To this day, I don’t think he realizes that he’s Lionel Messi.

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@BearsShowYo It’s been like this since 2008. Cristiano looks better, his hairstyle is trendier, his abs are more toned. Hardly ever about the football.

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“There is only one player who is doing things that I could never do, and that is Messi.”

— Francesco Totti, il Capitano di Roma.

Football has changed, generations have come and gone, but that quote hasn't moved an inch.

Legends fade. Records get broken. Time takes everything eventually. Except him.

At 39, Lionel Messi remains the one thing football cannot explain.

Happy birthday, Leo.