Flow State Vini ❗️

Real Madrid #HalaMadridYNadaMas

[Flow State Vini ❗️ @Stay_Frank]

Once Ronaldo retires it’s back to “Portugal who?”

[⚽️ 🇲🇷 @tapso7]

On regardera ce pays après ta retraite avec une haine incommensurablement.

[Ray @yuutaprince]

Ruining the vibe my reminding people that Messi is a Zionist

[Muneeb @Muneeb_08]

They are talking like Ronaldo doesn't have the most goals and most assists in Champions League and Euros, hands down the two greatest tournaments in football

The thing is, Ronaldo will stay at top of charts for eternity. Mbappe will take over Messi by the end of this World Cup 😭

[𝐊𝐞𝐬𝐡🇵🇹 @tweetcunha]

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[(fan) REAL MADRID FANS 🤍 @AdriRM33]

Los mismos en ESPAÑA que ahora piden apoyo y paciencia para Ferrán, son los mismos que se REÍAN e INSULTABAN a Vinícius con cada fallo.

HIPÓCRITAS.

[The Touchmine | 𝐓 @TouchmineX]

🚨🇦🇹 Austrian Goalkeeper, Alexander Schlager on how if felt saving the GOATs penalty?

“I don't know because didn't save Cristiano's penalty” (laughs) 😂

[Lemon @Lemonbriz]

🚨🎙️Sergio Ramos on the difference between Messi and Ronaldo:

🗣️"The difference is very clear. When Ronaldo scores, the world talks about Ronaldo. But when Messi scores, the world still talks about Ronaldo."

[🅓🅞🅝🅨 @Rmadonyfc_]

Can’t even hatewatch cuz this is the easiest group in the WC

[The Touchmine | 𝐓 @TouchmineX]

🚨🗣 Luis Figo on the the current situation of the Portugal NT:

"Some of these players clearly don't want him (Ronaldo) on the team. They think he's holding them back, but they forget EVERYTHING he has done for this country. The young Cristiano didn't need anyone else to score goals. He won matches all by himself. He carried Portugal for YEARS. Cristiano Ronaldo IS Portugal. He deserves respect and a farewell worthy of a LEGEND.

When Cristiano got his first call-up, he respected all the senior players. Now we have arrogant kids who have achieved nothing. He is the reason we even believe we can win a World Cup. He is the inspiration for everyone." 🇵🇹🏆

[rodriguesˢᶜᶜᵖ @NJanfren]

Quem compara Messi ao Pelé em Copas do mundo, é burro ou mau caráter.

Pelé precisou jogar apenas 4 copas do Mundo para ser campeão de 3 COPAS DO MUNDO.

É o único jogador da história a ter 3 títulos de Copa do Mundo.

Nunca precisou se aposentar da seleção por contas de fracassos.

O Messi? Precisou jogar 5 COPAS para ter 1 título. Precisou jogar 6 COPAS para ultrapassar Pelé em gols. Já se aposentou da seleção por causa de um vice de Copa América.

Vamos deixar de ser viralatas. Deixar de reescrever a história para rebaixar os nossos. Messi é grandioso, gênio, lendário, mas perto de Pelé, principalmente em Copas do Mundo, ele não chega perto.

[Real Madrid C.F. @realmadrid]

✅ No soy un robot.

[َ @ibzzlfc]

We didn’t grow up on Ronaldo terrorizing Europe for 15 straight years to hear this nonsense

[RW 🇸🇪 @ronaldowarrior]

Every time I hear about Cristiano Ronaldo doing something at an international tournament, it’s him scoring against teams like Germany, France, or that Spain hat-trick.
With Messi, it’s always goals against minnows like Algeria or another controversial penalty against a big nation

[~ @saint7ii]

And I still choose Cristiano Ronaldo in every lifetime

[🇫🇷🇺🇸 @coupedumonde07]

Everytime Messi scores his cult feels a need to slander Ronaldo instead of enjoying his goal, so much for “the debate is over” lmao

[Jr⁷🇧🇷 @Welisville]

Carlo can do this shit gradually and make the finals — i am not delusional,i just know the kind of man he is.

We are writing Brazil off solely because of their midfield

If Brazil had a very solid midfield, people won't be minimising them

Vini alone is a name defenders are scared of and there's no strong defender in this WC he hasn't conquered before in Europe

I just pray they deliver something worth remembering

[Kimi Regal @RegalKimi]

After Ronaldo won EURO 2016 while Messi was still without a senior international trophy, a common argument across football media, punditry and mainstream football discourse was that international trophies were not essential to determining individual greatness. Football was said to be a team sport, and a player’s legacy should not be reduced to what he won with his national team.

At the time, Messi had lost four major international finals with Argentina and had even retired from international football after the 2016 Copa América final defeat to Chile.

A few months later, Messi returned. What followed was an unusually busy Copa América schedule. The tournament was played in 2015, 2016, 2019 and 2021, four editions in just six years. Many observers could not help but notice that a player who had repeatedly fallen short was being given more opportunities to win in a short period and rightly so. Eventually, Messi won the 2021 Copa América.

For years, the football world had been told that international trophies were not necessary to be considered the greatest of all time. When Messi lacked an international trophy, the importance of international success was routinely downplayed.

Similarly, when Messi lacked a World Cup, it was not considered essential to being the GOAT. Once he won it in Qatar, however, the World Cup was elevated from being one achievement among many to the achievement that supposedly settled the GOAT debate forever.

To many Ronaldo supporters, this is the clearest example of shifting goalposts in football history. The standards appeared to change at every stage until they aligned perfectly with Messi’s résumé. What was once irrelevant became important. What was important became essential. And once Messi achieved it, the debate was declared over.

In Qatar, Argentina received five penalties during the tournament, a World Cup record for a single team in one edition. Several refereeing decisions involving Argentina remain debated to this day, including Messi’s handball incident against the Netherlands that some believe warranted a second yellow card.

For many critics, these were not isolated incidents but part of a wider pattern they believe has followed Messi throughout his career, where controversial decisions repeatedly seem to fall in his favour. They point to numerous moments over the years where they believe punishments that would have been applied to other players were overlooked when Messi was involved. Some supporters have even argued that similar concerns resurfaced only recently, after another incident in which they believe Messi was fortunate to avoid a red card.

Whether one agrees with that view or not, it has become a significant reason why many Ronaldo supporters remain sceptical of the narrative surrounding Messi’s achievements and the way they are discussed by the football establishment and mainstream media.

For many Ronaldo supporters, the issue has never simply been about preferring one player over another. It is about what they perceive as inconsistent standards. They see achievements weighed differently depending on who accomplished them. They see one player protected from scrutiny while the other is subjected to it at every turn.

That is why many continue to side with Ronaldo. Not because to many he is the greatest to ever kick a ball or he has won every trophy or because he is beyond criticism, but because they believe the standards applied to him have often been harsher than those applied to his greatest rival.

They would rather support a player who loses with his honour intact than celebrate victories they believe are surrounded by unanswered questions.

As José Mourinho once said: “If I have to win in that way, I would be ashamed.”

For them, the issue is not simply who won. It is whether the criteria for greatness remained consistent throughout the debate. In their view, they did not.

[Kylian Mbappe is the GOAT @Tezzathekchen]

Messi is the first player to take 7 penalties in World Cup history, no other player has taken more than 6

6 of the penalties were won by teammates. This is also the 28th World Cup game of his career

Anyone hyping his World Cup scoring record is an idiot

[Oyiga Micheal @Nsukka_okpa]

I LOVE HOW MESSI FANS ARE CELEBRATING HIM BECOMING THE ALL-TIME WORLD CUP TOP SCORER LIKE GOALS SUDDENLY MATTER NOW. 😭

WHEN RONALDO HITS 1000 CAREER GOALS, NOBODY SHOULD CHANGE MOUTH.

LET’S KEEP THAT SAME ENERGY. 😂