🚨🔙 𝗗𝗜𝗗 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗞𝗡𝗢𝗪: Lionel Messi reached out to Pep Guardiola about a potential reunion at Man City in 2020.
During a reported meeting at Guardiola’s home in Barcelona, Pep told Messi that joining Man City at 33 would be too challenging at that stage of his career and turned down the move.
[@pubitysport, via Pep Guardiola’s biography]
Had Cristiano Ronaldo stayed at Old Trafford instead of pursuing his dream to play for Real Madrid, the boy from Madeira could have easily topped this list as Manchester United's greatest.
Replacing David Beckham, he became a hero, a commercial behemoth that helped the club to further prominence in the global consciousness.
He became the first United player to win the Ballon d’Or since the triumvirate of George Best, Denis Law and Bobby Charlton in the 1960s.
Multiple players said he was the most talented that they had played with, just as many fans said he was the best they had seen.
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😳🇩🇪 Check out the criticism of Rudi Völler, the Sporting Director of the German Football Association on Argentina's style of play:
🗣️ “Many want to copy Argentina's process... it was a bad example. Many took it as a model, but it seems to me like a bit of a hypocritical discussion. Suddenly, the Argentines were the benchmark by which everything was measured. I wouldn't like to have a team that plays like Argentina. They are a bad example.
What they did had little to do with football. You could say they were world champions, and now runners-up, but that's... well, all those praises for them is something I didn't understand in many cases."
Soccer's law-making panel clarified its guidance to referees which confirmed Switzerland forward Breel Embolo should not have been sent off in the World Cup quarterfinals against Argentina. https://t.co/biicx5dYIN
Embolo n'aurait pas dû être expulsé face à l'Argentine ➡️ https://t.co/eM6KpUu8kl
L'IFAB, qui régit les règles du jeu, a communiqué sur un usage abusif du VAR durant la Coupe du monde. L'instance a établi que la vidéo pouvait intervenir en cas d'erreur sur l'identité d'un joueur averti, mais pas pour inverser la sanction, notamment sur les situations de simulation.
À partir de cela, le Suisse Breel Embolo n'aurait pas dû être expulsé face à l'Argentine en quarts de finale.