The people I cannot understand are those who take banter personally. I have never understood that level of attachment. Ronaldo does not know you and, in all likelihood, never will. Messi, whom I love and stan, does not know I exist either. Why then should anyone become so emotionally invested in these people that mere words about them are enough to make them attack strangers personally?
Banter is meant to be incisive, to cut and to pierce; that is precisely why it is banter. What fascinates me is not even the insults themselves but what they reveal. There is something unsettling about allowing your emotions to become so dependent on people who have never shared a moment of their lives with you. It tells me that, somewhere along the line, admiration became identity. That is a dangerous thing, because once someone else becomes your identity, even a joke will be interpreted as an attack on your existence.
If you have a good head on your shoulders, you will purge yourself of such a nasty habit.
The waffling about Ronaldo is what I cannot understand. Even if he scores a hundred goals today, it is against Uzbekistan; a team whose name is almost as difficult to spell as its lack of football is to explain. I genuinely don’t get the hype.
Brilliant Cristiano Ronaldo — possibly the greatest goalscorer the game has ever seen!
Now ALL the superstars have arrived.
But please, please, let's not start the comparison game. It's one he will always lose.
Let's appreciate him for what he is, rather than measuring him against someone else.
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Of all these, there’s not a single one that leaves me in awe better than scoring 91 goals in a calendar year.
That’s what some strikers score in 10 years.
As ridiculously good and prolific Mbappe, Haaland, Ronaldo, Kane and Luis Suarez are, none of them has reached the 70 mark. I stand to be corrected.
I can never understand how anyone will score 91 goals in a year at professional level. Elite, top 1% professional football and he scored 91 goals.
It’s ridiculous. It is.
Wait a minute .. this man begged and pleaded for a divorce from episode 1! Yes he was a dog and evil. This woman burnt a house down with 2 people in it , poisoned someone , pointed a gun at someone etc! She no innocent
Thank God I retired from the Ronaldo-Messi debate early.
At some point you either accept reality or spend your entire timeline doing damage control and wasting your energy after every Messi achievement, which is extremely draining
🚨🇦🇷 Julián Álvarez: “I have recovered from my issues, I feel ready and good”.
“Lionel Messi has spent more than 20 years being the best in the world, and he is the best in football history”.
All the records broken by Lionel Messi today:
Most FIFA World Cup finals goals by a football (soccer) player - 18
Most FIFA World Cup matches played in by an individual - 28
Most matches won by a player at the football (soccer) FIFA World Cup - 18
Most minutes played in the football (soccer) FIFA World Cup - 2,489
We are witnessing history.