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🚨🎙️ Zlatan Ibrahimovic on Scaloni confirming Messi will be on the bench against Jordan
“That tells you everything about Messi. He doesn’t chase stats; he puts Argentina first. If he had played for records, there wouldn’t be a record left unbroken”
🚨🎙️ ZLATAN IBRAHIMOVIĆ ON LIONEL MESSI'S INFLUENCE ON ARGENTINA AFTER THEIR WIN OVER AUSTRIA:
“I'm obsessed with watching Messi.
Not because he's my friend.
Not because of nostalgia.
Because after all these years, I'm still trying to understand how one player can control a football match without touching the ball every minute.
I watched Argentina today and the first thing I noticed wasn't the scoreline.
It was the way Austria reacted whenever Messi moved.
One step to the left, defenders follow.
One drop into midfield, the entire shape changes.
One glance over his shoulder panic.
That's not football.
That's psychological warfare.
And that's why I laugh when people reduce him to goals and assists.
They don't understand what they're watching.
Messi isn't just Argentina's best player.
He's Argentina's system.
He's their confidence.
He's their belief.
He's the reason every teammate walks onto the pitch thinking the impossible is possible.
People ask me about the GOAT debate.
What debate?
Seriously.
What debate?
For me, there isn't one.
The debate exists because television needs content and social media needs arguments.
When I watch football, I don't see a debate.
I see Messi.
Then I see everybody else.
That doesn't mean other legends weren't incredible.
It means I've never seen another player influence a match, a team and an entire generation of football the way Messi has.
And today was another reminder.
He didn't need a hat-trick.
He didn't need to score from 40 yards.
He just needed to be Lionel Messi.
And suddenly Argentina looked like a completely different team.
That's greatness.
Not when everything depends on you.
When everybody becomes better because you're there.
I've played against great players.
I've played with great players.
But Messi is the only player I've ever watched and genuinely thought:
'This isn't normal.'
The scary thing?
Opponents know exactly what he's going to do.
And they still can't stop it.
That's why I don't waste my time with comparisons anymore.
Some players become legends.
Some players become icons.
Messi became a category of his own.
And after today's performance, if you're still asking me who the greatest footballer of all time is...
You're asking the wrong question.
The right question is:
Will football ever produce another one like him?”
🅾️🅾️ Wayne Rooney: On Lionel Messi performance against Austria:
“I’ll say this now, what we’re witnessing right now is just completely mental. I’ve played at the absolute highest level, I know what the physical toll of this game is, and Messi scoring twice today to break the all-time World Cup goal record? It’s just insane.
How are we all sitting here acting like this is normal? The man is 39 years old. At 39, most lads are sitting on a beach, or struggling to get out of bed for a Sunday league kickabout, let alone dominating the biggest tournament on Earth. It defies logic.
He’s out there gliding past players, reading the game three steps ahead of everyone else, and finishing like he’s still in his mid-twenties.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: anyone who still doubts Lionel Messi as the greatest to ever play the game simply is not mentally OK. It’s that simple.
There’s no footballing argument left to have. Even if your brain has been completely disconnected, your eyes alone just sitting there watching what he is doing on that pitch should tell you absolutely everything you need to know. You don't need a tactical breakdown. You just need to look at the screen. To do what he’s done throughout his career was incredible, but to reach the pinnacle of the World Cup record books at 39?
We will never, ever see anything like this again. We just need to stop trying to analyze it and appreciate that we're looking at the absolute best to ever lace up a pair of boots”
🚨🎙️ Pep Guardiola was asked:
“Who is the GOAT between Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo?”
🗣️ Pep Guardiola smiled:
“Honestly, I don't like this debate anymore because people always want a five-second answer for a question that deserves five hours.”
🗣️ “The moment you say Messi, Ronaldo fans get angry. The moment you say Ronaldo, Messi fans get angry.”
🗣️ “Football is not social media. Football is not about choosing a side in ten seconds.”
🗣️ “To understand greatness, you have to understand football first.”
🗣️ “Cristiano Ronaldo is one of the greatest competitors I have ever seen in any sport.”
🗣️ “His mentality is unbelievable. His discipline is unbelievable. The way he transformed himself from a winger into the greatest goalscorer football has ever seen is something that should be studied.”
🗣️ “You don't score that many goals by accident.”
🗣️ “You don't dominate England, Spain, Italy and international football by accident.”
🗣️ “Cristiano earned every single achievement he has.”
🗣️ “But then there is Messi.”
🗣️ “And this is where the conversation changes.”
🗣️ “When I coached Messi, I realized very quickly that I wasn't looking at a normal football player.”
🗣️ “I was looking at football itself.”
🗣️ “There are players who score goals.”
🗣️ “There are players who create goals.”
🗣️ “There are players who control matches.”
🗣️ “Messi does all three at the same time.”
🗣️ “People see the goals.”
🗣️ “I see the passes nobody else sees.”
🗣️ “I see the spaces nobody else understands.”
🗣️ “I see the decisions that change games before anyone realizes what happened.”
🗣️ “That's why I always laugh when people compare football only through statistics.”
🗣️ “Football is much deeper than statistics.”
🗣️ “If football was only about goals, then maybe the debate would be different.”
🗣️ “But football is also creativity.”
🗣️ “Football is intelligence.”
🗣️ “Football is influence.”
🗣️ “Football is making everyone around you better.”
🗣️ “And for me, nobody has ever done that better than Messi.”
🗣️ “Can Ronaldo be called one of the greatest ever?”
🗣️ “Of course.”
🗣️ “Without any doubt.”
🗣️ “But if you ask me personally, if you ask me honestly, if you ask me as somebody who watched Messi every day…”
🗣️ “Then my answer is Lionel Messi.”
🗣️ “Not because Ronaldo isn't incredible.”
🗣️ “He is.”
🗣️ “Not because Ronaldo didn't change football.”
🗣️ “He did.”
🗣️ “But because Messi changed the way football is understood.”
🗣️ “That is a different level.”
🗣️ “And maybe some Ronaldo fans will criticize me for saying this.”
🗣️ “That's okay.”
🗣️ “I respect Cristiano enormously.”
🗣️ “But I cannot ignore what my eyes have seen.”
🗣️ “For many years I watched Messi do things that should not be possible on a football pitch.”
🗣️ “Things that coaches cannot teach.”
🗣️ “Things that defenders cannot stop.”
🗣️ “Things that only belong to geniuses.”
🗣️ “Cristiano Ronaldo is one of the greatest players in football history.”
🗣️ “Lionel Messi is the greatest footballer I have ever seen.”
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🗣️ “Sometimes the hardest answer to give is also the simplest one.”
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, a third time, a fourth time, and a million times more: as long as Messi is still playing football, he is the best player in the world, no matter where he plays or the level of competition around him.
Not Lamine Yamal, not Olise, not Kane, not Mbappé, and not anyone else.
What Messi does is far more difficult and far more valuable than goals, assists, statistics, tactics, or anything else that can be measured when comparing ordinary footballers.
Messi is a level of sustained excellence that lasted for 20 years straight—a level that even Maradona couldn’t maintain for a single month throughout his career.
Messi is the best and most accurate goalscorer in the world even when he’s nowhere near the penalty area, something neither Cristiano Ronaldo nor Pelé ever reached.
Messi’s first touch is better than Zidane’s. His ball control is more refined than Ronaldinho’s. His dribbling is better than Iniesta’s. And the crazy part is that these are the very qualities that made those legends special in the first place.
Messi is better than all of them at the one thing that defined them.
He’s a level above even that fictional player we used to create in PES and FIFA with every attribute maxed out and every ability unlocked.
As Aboutrika once said: “Messi is proof that God exists.”
Because honestly, it’s impossible to believe that someone like this happened by pure coincidence. 🐐🇦🇷❤️
When Messi said he cried after the goal because of something unrelated to football, I don’t know why but it hit me harder than the hat-trick itself.
Maybe because we’ve spent so many years looking at him as something more than human.
Every time Argentina needed a hero, there he was.
Every time football needed magic, there he was.
Every time people said it was over, there he was.
And yet moments like this remind you that behind all the goals, trophies and celebrations is just a man carrying battles we know nothing about.
I think that’s why I’ve stopped caring about the debates.
The GOAT debates.
The era debates.
The league debates.
At some point you realize you’re watching the final chapters of a story that millions of people will tell for decades.
One day there won’t be another Messi World Cup game.
One day there won’t be another impossible assist, another left-footed finish, another moment where an entire stadium stands up because the ball found its way to him.
And when that day comes, football will continue.
But it won’t feel quite the same.
What a privilege it has been to watch him.
What a privilege it has been to grow up in the Messi era.
One day I’ll tell my kids that I watched Lionel Messi play football.
And they’ll probably never understand just how lucky we were.
Born too late to see dinosaurs
Born too early to see flying cars
Born just in time to witness Leo Messi
Every single time I watch this Messi's speech I get crazy goosebumps.
And this was the guy media tried to portray as a "bad leader".
🚨 𝗗𝗜𝗗 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗞𝗡𝗢𝗪: Inter Miami were ROCK BOTTOM of the MLS table when Lionel Messi arrived.
Within 3 years he won them 3 major titles, carrying them to the MLS CUP FINAL while producing 77 goals + 41 assists (118 G/A) in 87 games.
🔥 𝐇𝐎𝐓 𝐓𝐀𝐊𝐄: Lionel Messi is STILL the best football player in the world right now!
Messi… WTF 😂😂😂
Messi responded in just 3 hours.👍
Barcelona 8 - 0 Almería
🗣️Ronaldo: “Let's see if Messi and company can score half of those goals against Real Madrid next week”
The following week:
🚨Incase you missed Leo Messi’s MASTERCLASS performance for Argentina vs Venezuela in what was likely his last game with the NT on home soil…Here We Go!
Open Thread 🔥
The top scorer in the most intense, physically demanding qualification system in world football… at 38!!!
Ridiculous.
The Argentina fans saying farewell to Lionel Messi, who likely played his last national game in his homeland.👏🐐
🫡🇦🇷
It's hard to believe he's 38 years old 🐐😍
Xavi Hernandez. You will always be famous for those 10 minutes 🤣🤣
🗣️ Didier Deschamps, head coach of the French National Team : "The only controversial penalty awarded to Argentina was the one in the match against Poland—and it was missed.”
“Argentina scored 15 goals in the World Cup and only 4 were penalties. I don’t understand those who say Argentina was helped in the final. My players and I didn’t complain about the penalty because we knew it was the right call. All I can do is congratulate Argentina and France for giving us the greatest final in World Cup history."🔥🐐🏆
🎙Xabi Alonso: "When I studied training sciences with many professors, they explained lessons that lasted hours on how to stop opponents, and after finishing the class, they said that everything we explained doesn't apply to a player, which is Messi." "So I think I'm a lucky coach because I won't face him as a coach because facing him is the hardest part of football."
"When Messi lost the World Cup final, he didn't blame Higuain." Also, in the 2018 World Cup, we didn't hear Messi make a statement blaming a player. Rather, he always says and speaks on behalf of all what they did." Everything to win. Here we see that sometimes one player on the team is not enough to win titles, in my opinion, if Messi had played for Spain, he would have won the World Cup more than once.”🔥🐐🏆
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