Pedri! The best technician in the middle of the park. This is a lesson to doubters.
You don't just take the ball away the ball from Pedri because you are bigger, shielding is a skill (feeling the defender & getting your body between him & the ball). https://t.co/TiEd5eL46J
Dembele winning the ballon dâor is exactly the reason Mbappe has a headloss now. I am certain he hasnât slept since Dembele won the ballon dâor and 2 UCLs with a team he couldnât win with. They compared both players when they were youngsters, with Dembele being the better player at Dortmund. He had a set back and Mbappe surpassed him clearly, Dembeleâs come back is something Mbappe didnât foresee and it is hurting him.
This article is spot on, but thereâs one other reason why Messi hate has spread like wildfire this World Cup:
~15 years ago with the GOAT debate at its peak, hundreds of millions of young fans worldwide picked CR7 as their idol while he and Messi went band for band.
And the battle was legendary.
But for the past decade, Ronaldo fans have watched their GOAT slowly decline while an aging Messi remained on top of the world, surpassing Ronaldo on individual awards and lifting the gameâs most prestigious trophy, which Ronaldo could never get near.
Ronaldoâs millions of supporters now roam social media like a leaderless army who has lost the war.
With the debate on the pitch settled and Ronaldoâs legacy capped, his fans desperately undermine Messiâs achievements in a futile attempt to close the ever-widening gap between stars.
And I donât blame them.
But that is why, as football fans everywhere enjoy the glittering sunset of Messiâs unparalleled career, millions of Ronaldo diehards are reduced to complaints about referees and TikTok aura edits from 2017, while they watch a little boy from Rosario forever eclipse their childhood hero and take his rightful place as the greatest footballer to ever live.