footballanalytic

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[Sara 🇵🇸 @SaraFCBi]

Some people were really launching a worldwide smear campaign against a man whose father was fighting for his life, and who despite all of this, still gave us a World Cup tournament for the ages.

These people have a special, special place in hell!

[footballanalytic @curiousdemonn]

@MagicJoanGarcia @ReshadRahman The initial bid was a verbal one I think. Now we will send an official bid.

[All About Argentina 🛎🇦🇷 @AlbicelesteTalk]

🇪🇸❤️🚨 @rubenuria: "As I imagine many of you know that Leo Messi has donated €80,000 for the reconstruction of Sierra Oeste in Madrid. As a Madrid resident, I simply want to say thank you to him and hopefully soon he visits the capital of Spain so we can give him a standing ovation first and then the hug he deserves for helping in these very complicated moments, especially when he had zero obligation to do so.

"This gesture from Leo speaks to how great he is both on and off the field. A true gentleman. I know Leo well and I know he doesn't like this to be known or talked about because he doesn't care for publicity, nor does he need it.

"But I do want people to know. Why? Because this isn't Messi's only donation. Just so people know, Messi already donated a significant amount of money to the Red Cross in other parts of Spain. Messi also extended help to combat the effects of that damn DANA [storm] that devastated Valencia and that our Valencian friends suffered from. Furthermore, just so people know, Messi along with his wife Antonela Roccuzzo also wanted to help those affected by the earthquakes in Venezuela.

"Messi, I repeat, does not need publicity, nor does he want it. But at least for me, I damn well feel like making it known. He isn't just the number one of all time on the pitch, but he is also the greatest outside of it. Thank you, Leo, in the name of many Madrid residents, and of course, many Spaniards."

[footballanalytic @curiousdemonn]

@FootballTruths_ @AlbicelesteTalk Pretty sure he must be talking about American football bro. Not the real football 😭🥀

[footballanalytic @curiousdemonn]

@MihneaRO8 @MusialaEra You absolutely can. Forget Fabrizio even Ornstein does this. If you waited until all signatures are signed then you would be waiting until the club announce. Then there’s no point of fabrizio or ornstein or any journalist to even do their job 😂

[footballanalytic @curiousdemonn]

@Trinichelsea1 @MusialaEra @Plettigoal The only time it’s done officially is when the clubs announce it themselves because that’s when they sign the documents and legal contracts. If you want to wait for that long please do so 😂😂😂😂

[footballanalytic @curiousdemonn]

@433supremacy @AlbicelesteTalk @BigFrman Calm down. Romero is 10 times the player Araujo is. He is also way way smarter than him. He is rough yes but don’t forget he played for a shit team like spurs and mostly always had to just defend cause they were ass.

[footballanalytic @curiousdemonn]

@Loaayx @forcabarca_ar 99% is racist. Come on now that’s a stat you pulled out of your ass. That’s obviously not true. So many western Countries have way worse cases of Racism than Argentina and it’s not even close.

[footballanalytic @curiousdemonn]

There were Argentina fans holding the Palestine flag too. You have to realise every country in the world people have opposing opinions it’s never 1 dimensional. Just because their president is pro Israel does not mean everyone from their country is. Egypt literally does not let palestines through their border to support them, thoughts on that?

[Appie Culé @appiecule]

I’m going to take my time with this one. If you’re busy, save this post and read it later. Don’t miss this trust me.

I just want to put one final point on Messi’s story: football has never truly been an individual sport—except when it came to him.

Football is a team game. No matter how great you are, you still need the players around you to compete, even if the entire system is built to maximize your strengths.

Yet even with Messi, people kept repeating the same old narrative about Xavi, Iniesta, and Guardiola. The reality is that Messi only spent about four years playing with that historic generation, and even that team looked lost before Guardiola arrived. Messi contributed just as much to their greatness as they did to his.

When that generation left, Barcelona became almost entirely dependent on Messi for two years. Then Luis Enrique arrived, along with Suárez and Neymar, not to carry Messi, but to help share the burden.

After Neymar left, and with Suárez well past his best, Messi was once again carrying Barcelona almost entirely by himself, surrounded by average players. He was one game away from another historic treble, and once again, he was the team’s standout player.

Many people forget that in 2014, after Messi became La Liga’s all-time leading scorer with a hat-trick against Sevilla, Barcelona fans were handed flyers asking: “What if you woke up tomorrow and Messi was no longer at Barcelona?” Even then, some people still couldn’t bring themselves to give him the credit he deserved.

Messi even wanted to leave in 2020, and the situation nearly ended up in court. But he stayed because he didn’t want to fight the club he loved. In the end, he was still forced out in one of the saddest exits in football history.

Argentina was no different.

For years, Messi carried one of the worst-run national teams in modern football. In 2010, Maradona played Germany with four attackers because he believed more forwards meant more goals. Argentina lost 4–0.

Yet Messi was the one blamed.

He was called a failure, a choker, and a coward by people who ignored the reality that, without him, Argentina might not even have qualified for the 2014 World Cup. Every Copa América final they reached was because Messi got them there in the first place.

The difference was enormous: with Messi, Argentina reached finals; without him, they struggled even against much weaker opponents.

The 2022 World Cup wasn’t just about a great team—it was also about Messi bringing confidence, leadership, and belief to a group of players who followed him. He carried the responsibility while everyone else played their role.

Even in the latest World Cup, at 39 years old, Messi was covering huge areas of the pitch, playing 120 minutes repeatedly, and constantly finding new ways to win games almost by himself.

Most people will never care about these details or this context. Future generations will only look at trophies and short tournaments.

In the end, every argument people used against Messi eventually disappeared. They said he had no World Cup—he won it. They said he had no Copa América—he won it too.

To me, Messi is the most unfairly judged player in football history. No player has been blamed for more things beyond his control or had more false narratives attached to his name.

That’s Messi’s story—through logic, reality, and everything he had to endure.

[footballanalytic @curiousdemonn]

@rugelastico Would have believed everything until I saw “🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 We lost”. Their media and journalists are having the greatest mental breakdown since Messi sent their ass back 😭😭😭😭

[footballanalytic @curiousdemonn]

@Jose2871072022 @234noticies This has to be a joke 😭😭😭

[♡ @Bonmatimessi]

The "rigged for Argentina" narrative has been running for 12 years now, but somehow the 2026 World Cup larpers think they're so smart for "clocking it." 💀

You're no visionary analyst, just the newest sheep on a very tired bandwagon.

[🇦🇷🧉 @jonahcelona]

@trackzionist You are such a shitty scumbag for spreading misinformation, i hope he sues tf out of u

[footballanalytic @curiousdemonn]

@AlbicelesteTalk Yes that’s beautiful

[footballanalytic @curiousdemonn]

@MailSport You guys are a fucking disgrace

[rosie @therosieum]

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