@mitchollo Very well said. As a football fan it takes guts to acknowledge one's own team's shortcoming whilst praising the rival. As a barca fan you have my respect. And i agree with what you said, madrid are nowhere near the required level currently. The squad is massively underperforming.
Lionel Messi posts "goat debate settled" after losing yet another Final for Argentina
He is the only Captain to lose 2 World Cup Finals and 4 Finals for his country.
I became a football fan because of lionel messi. I will never forget the uncountable moments where he made me believe magic was real. Ive been on this journey as a fan from the lowest of lows in 2016 to the biggest high in 2022. Gracias Leo, happy retirement and thank you.
@ReshadRahman I love cubarsi man, but he did sabotage us in that atleti game. He's had a monstrous tournament but he wasnt flawless for barca, far from it.
Argentina never got the respect they deserved.
I’ve never seen a national team receive this much hate for simply winning. Instead of giving credit to a team that has dominated world football for the last five years, social media became full of edited clips, AI-generated images, fake quotes, misleading posts and out-of-context videos, all made to discredit what this team achieved.
The worst part is that many people didn’t even care if it was true. If it got engagement, they shared it. If it pushed another anti-Argentina narrative, they believed it. That’s how low football discussion became. Imagine how empty your life has to be that your only way of getting attention is by spreading lies and fake propaganda about other people.
Every foul was analyzed frame by frame. Every referee decision became a conspiracy. Every victory had to come with an excuse. I’ve never seen another team get microanalyzed like this just because they kept winning.
A lot of this comes down to one thing: Lionel Messi, who is far better player than their favorite player, far better, far talented and achieved far more in the sport so as they see that Messi is better than their favorite player, instead of accepting it they looked for ways to discredit him and the team around him.
During this World Cup, people threw every label they could at Argentina. Racists. Zionists. Cheaters. Corrupt. All based on viral posts, fake quotes, edited clips or AI-generated content, without caring whether any of it was actually true.
They spent years trying to convince people that Argentina and these players didn’t deserve what they achieved.
The truth is that, they couldn’t accept that Lionel Messi and this generation reached a level their favorites never did.
No amount of propaganda can rewrite football history. And history will remember this Argentina team as one of the best international sides ever.
🏴 Joe Cole: "Messi’s first time playing against England? Well, we’re going to put him to sleep. We’re going to put him to sleep. Yeah, 100%
🏴 Troy Deeney: "I think we’ll BATTER Argentina. We’ll win at least 2–0, comfortably.
🏴 John Terry: “Argentina DOESN'T worry me. I don’t look at Argentina and think they’re better than us. Player for player, we’re BETTER than Argentina."
🏴 Ian Wright: "I think we will BEAT Argentina. The way they play and how narrow they are. I think we are going to block them and break them”
🏴 Gary Neville: "With the centre backs they have, I can't see us not scoring at least 2 goals. We're faster, quicker, we've got a BETTER squad."
@AlbicelesteTalk@FIFAcom I mean these quotes seem arrogant at 1st but none of them are wrong. England are miles better than argentina rn. I'm expecting an easy win for them, it'd be surprising if argentina even manage to make it competitive.
🚨 England’s equaliser should NOT have stood!
The ball struck a camera cable from Norway’s goal-kick, clearly affecting its trajectory.
Under IFAB laws, the cable is an outside agent. Play should have been stopped and restarted with a dropped ball.