At 39 years old, Lionel Messi is still on L’Équipe’s Ballon d’Or front page.
Nearly two decades later, he is still right there in the conversation. Longevity that football will never see again. 🐐🇦🇷
2012 messi was literally king von. people were terrified.. he was dropping people left and right all while being on a diet of pizza and nutella sandwiches
This clip says so much about Messi’s character.
He had just won his 7th Ballon d’Or. The entire night was supposed to be about him, yet during his own acceptance speech he looked at Robert Lewandowski and told him:
“You deserve your Ballon d’Or. Everyone agreed that you were the winner last year. I think France Football should give you the 2020 Ballon d’Or. You deserve it.”
Think about the humility required to do that. Messi was standing on the biggest individual stage in football, holding the biggest individual award, and instead of making everything about himself, he used his moment to recognize another player.
And this has always been Messi. He won more Ballon d’Ors than anyone, broke ridiculous records, won everything possible and completed football, yet individual recognition was never an obsession for him.
He never needed to constantly tell us he was the greatest. He never needed to campaign for awards or diminish somebody else to elevate himself.
His football did the talking.
For someone who had every reason in the world to have the biggest ego in football, Messi somehow remained one of its most humble superstars.
That, to me, is another part of what makes Leo Messi so special. 🐐
Pissg is the most evil club ever bruh its genuinely satanic I actually hate pissg the way I hate madrid genuinely everything about that club is so capitalistic and greedy
i love fcb but it'll always remind me of messi and i'll never be able to separate the two. messi is so much more than barca but barca is messi. every time i see that badge i'll think of him, everything he did for it and how he should've retired in those colours he loves sm