Lamine Yamal on Lionel Messi missing out on the Best Player of the Tournament award to Rodri.
š£ļø āCongratulations to Rodri because heās an unbelievable player. But my heart tells me something different. For me, Lionel Messi deserved that award. What he did at 39 years old wasnāt normal it was something football may never witness again.ā
āIāve spent my whole life hearing people say Messiās time was over. Yet every time the biggest stage called his name, he answered. He carried Argentina again, decided matches again, and made millions of people believe again. How can someone produce a tournament like that and not be named its best player?ā
āI looked across the pitch in the final and I wasnāt just facing an opponent. I was facing the player who inspired my entire generation to fall in love with football. The same man whose videos I watched every day, whose movements every young player tried to copy, was still producing magic against the best teams in the world.ā
āFor me, this wasnāt just another great World Cup. It was one of the greatest individual tournaments Iāve ever seen. At an age when most legends are remembered for what they used to be, Messi was still showing everyone what greatness looks like in the present.ā
āPeople will celebrate the winner of the award, and they have every right to. But years from now, children wonāt be searching for the voting results theyāll be searching for Messiās highlights, his passes, his goals, his dribbles and the moments that made the world stop and applaud.ā
āI was lucky enough to share a World Cup with my idol. If thereās one thing Iāll always say, itās this: Lionel Messi didnāt need that trophy to prove he was the best player at this tournament. In my eyes, and in the eyes of millions around the world, he had already won it with his football. Some legacies are simply too big for any vote to define.
Posiblemente sea mi tuit mĆ”s cursi pero adhiero a esto, no hay mejor sensación que volver y saber que hay alguien esperĆ”ndote dispuesto a abrazarte, escucharte y hacerte reĆr
Soy el claro ejemplo de que para poder alejarme de algo, me tiene que destruir completamente y no por falta de amor propio, si no por la fe tan grande que tengo en pensar de que todo pueda cambiar.