#Throwback to the day when @carsonlueders totally made my day with this!!! Thank you so much for your hard work and your music Carson! I love every bit of it!!! If someone were to ever ask me right now who I want to meet, it be you.... #Luedizer4Life#BoyLuedizer
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Can’t believe 3 years ago, all the way at the National Stadium of Singapore, @MoSalah actually signed the kit I risked by throwing on to the pitch for him. Thank god I got it back. Thank you Mo for all the memories! I’ll cherish this forever. #YNWA#LFC#MoSalah
Messi won everything he could, he carried Argentina to the finals. It’s just a pity, things didn’t pan out. He will always be the greatest of all time, no one can take that away from him. Thank you Leo, for everything.
No joy in seeing Messi in tears there, very different to Maradona in 1990. Dragged his team to the final but Spain were far too good in the end. Messi simply the greatest ever - will be a long time before we see anybody as good as him again
Luis de la Fuente on Lionel Messi after Spain defeated Argentina in the FIFA World Cup Final.
🗣️ “Tonight, Spain celebrates becoming world champions, but my heart also goes out to Lionel Messi. As an opponent, you dream of beating the very best. As a football lover, it’s impossible not to feel emotional seeing a legend leave the pitch with so much pain.”
“I told my players before the match that facing Messi was the greatest challenge in football. Even at his age, he demanded our full respect from the first minute to the last. He pushed us to our absolute limit because that’s what the greatest players do.”
“When the final whistle blew, I celebrated with my team because we achieved our dream. But then I looked across the pitch and saw Messi. That image reminds you how cruel football can be. One team is crying with joy, the other with heartbreak.”
“History will remember Spain as world champions, and rightly so. But history must also remember Lionel Messi with respect. He didn’t lose his greatness tonight. He didn’t lose his legacy. He walked off that pitch as one of the greatest footballers the world has ever seen, and every player in my squad was honoured to share the field with him.”
We will never see a generational player like Messi for a long long time. A pity they shot themselves in the foot, and played so badly in the finals. But Messi, he’s from another planet.