Dhruv

Curiosity takes me to random places. || Product Development @NiviaSports || @BrownUniversity ‘21 || Die Hard #MUFC

[Dhruv @DKharabanda]

@It_Was_A_Good_D There are Manchester United legends (Scholes, Rooney, Giggs) that say Messi is the best ever. They played with Ronaldo and lost two finals to Messi.

Loving Messi and recognising he is the best is normal. Only idiotic fans think that it isn’t.

[Al Foran @ImpressionistAL]

Ronaldo will be known as one of the all time greats because he got closer to Messi than any other player and was arguably better for a season or two, his mental fortitude is what should impress his staunch supporters but they now need to come to the realisation that Messi is the greatest to ever grace the game.

[TK @TeaKupps]

Been almost 36 hours but I’m still buzzing off that Messi hat trick bro.

No one is going to give me this type of dopamine rush once he’s gone

[Ataque Futbolero @AtaqueFutbolero]

💔🇨🇮 Ufff, es brutal esta carta que escribió Yan Diomandé dedicada a su hermana de 15 años asesinada en 2025 en una fiesta y titulada ‘QUERIDA ROXANE’. Estremece, realmente:

“Ni siquiera creo haber derramado una lágrima el día en que me dijeron que te habías ido. Estaba en shock.

Habían pasado unas semanas desde mi debut con Leganés. ¿Quién debuta con 18 años contra el Real Madrid? Era una locura. Era un sueño.

Y de repente se convirtió en una pesadilla. Alguien no dejaba de llamarme desde casa. Yo estaba molesto. No entendía por qué insistían tanto. Atendí, y ni siquiera lo suavizaron. Ya sabés cómo es en casa. Sin emociones. Solo…

— Tu hermana se fue.
— ¿Qué?
— Murió.
— ¿De qué estás hablando?
—Alguien puso algo en su bebida en una fiesta y nunca volvió a despertar. Ya no está.

Tenías quince años.

QUINCE.

Nunca obtuve respuestas. No sé si quiero saber por qué. Tal vez fue envidia. Tal vez son cosas que pasan en nuestro país. Tal vez podría haberte protegido. No lo sé.

Intento confiar en el plan de Dios. Es lo único que puedo hacer. No intento olvidarte, porque sé que nunca te voy a olvidar. Lo único que puedo hacer es usar ese dolor para trabajar más duro y cumplir todo aquello con lo que soñamos.

Escribo esto porque no puedo hablar de ello. Lo escribo porque quiero que sepas que voy a asegurarme de que sigas viviendo. Voy a asegurarme de que todo el mundo conozca tu nombre. El mundo entero.

Todo lo que hago en una cancha de fútbol es por vos.

Han pasado tantas cosas desde la última vez que te vi… No te lo creerías. Ni yo mismo me lo creo.

La cancha es el único lugar donde todavía me siento en casa. Es el lugar donde me siento en paz y donde puedo hablar con vos. Solo desearía que siguieras aquí para poder decirte…

Lo logramos.

Todo lo que dijiste se hizo realidad.

Mañana nos vamos al Mundial. De verdad. Tu hermano va a jugar para Costa de Marfil, como Drogba, como Yaya, como Gervinho.

Ni siquiera lo veo como un partido. Lo veo como un escenario. Esta es mi oportunidad para mostrarle al mundo entero lo que vos viste en mí. Cada vez que haga un gol, me aseguraré de que todos sepan tu nombre. Me aseguraré de que nadie te olvide.

Voy a hacer realidad lo que predijiste, te lo juro. Incluso antes de tener botines de verdad, vos le decías a todo el mundo:

—Mi hermano va a ser el mejor del mundo.

VOY A DEMOSTRAR QUE TENÍAS RAZÓN O MORIRÉ INTENTÁNDOLO.

Tu hermano,

Yan”.

Vía @TPTFootball.

[fan 🇵🇹 @NoodleHairCR7]

🚨 NON PENALTY GOALS AT THE WORLD CUP:

🇩🇪 Miroslav Klose: 16
🇦🇷 Lionel Messi: 12

[Dhruv @DKharabanda]

@NoodleHairCR7 Ronaldo will ghost and drag his team down. 10/10

[Dhruv @DKharabanda]

@NoodleHairCR7 You are a clown. The accept that your 🐐 is washed. Dragging the entire team down. Calling a group with Uzbekistan, Congo and Colombia the groups of death 😂

[Llourinho @Llourinho]

El concepto de que la República Democrática del Congo y Uzbekistán formen parte de un “grupo de la muerte” me tiene llorando. Dos selecciones debutantes en el Mundial.

[Dhruv @DKharabanda]

The simple answer is humility

[Appie Culé @appiecule]

What fascinates me more than the hat-trick is one question I’d love to ask Messi: How did you make them love you this much? Messi has reached a level with his teammates that even Maradona never truly achieved throughout his career.

The man in front of you is the same player who, after Argentina reached the 2014 World Cup final, had Mascherano walk up to him and say: “I’m tired of seeing you suffer. Today, we’re playing only for your happiness.” When the media criticized Messi, Agüero said they used to ask themselves just one question: “How can we get the ball to him in the best possible position to prove he’s the best?”

Then came Copa América 2021, when Di María said: “I was ready to break my leg if it meant Messi could win an international trophy.” Less than a year later, the level of devotion had somehow gone even higher. De Paul said: “I could go to war for him without even knowing the reason.” Emiliano Martínez went even further: “I’d be willing to die for Messi on the pitch.”

Now we’ve reached 2026. Do you think anything has changed? If anything, it’s become even stronger. Álvarez and Lautaro received chances they could have finished themselves, yet they waited for Messi and squared the ball to him so he could complete his hat-trick.

This Argentina team moves as one, beats as one, and rallies behind one name:

Messi. 🐐🇦🇷

[𝙠 🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lecvsn]

Group of death and it includes "DR Congo" and "Uzbekistan"

[Paritosh Bhide @paritosh_bhide]

LMAOOOOOOOOOOOO

[Neal 🇦🇺 @NealGardner_]

Imagine being that much better than your peers, achieving literally everything one could possibly dream of achieving in the sport, and yet, over the course of 20 years and countless interviews, not ONCE has Messi failed to be anything but extreamely humble and classy.

[Dhruv @DKharabanda]

The brilliance of Leo Messi is that the hattrick seems like just another day in his life.

A hattrick in the World Cup is possibly one of the greatest achievements for any player. To do that at the age of 38 is even more absurd.

Messi is still underrated. Truly magical.

[Dhruv @DKharabanda]

Ronaldo’s luck is that he is compared to the greatest player of all time

Ronaldo’s curse is that is he competed to the greatest player of all time

[Lord Immy Kant @KantInEastt]

If cinema had Akira Kurosawa, art had Leonardo da Vinci, politics had Lee Kuan Yew, science had Albert Einstein, music had Mozart, literature had Shakespeare, and chess had Garry Kasparov, football had Lionel Messi. Every field produces a once-in-a-century genius who redefines what humans are capable of. Messi was that for football, not merely the greatest of his era, but a benchmark for all eras.

[Max Stéph @maxstephhh]

"Copa Del Rey Messi" has beaten "UCL Ronaldo" in a UCL Final and "World Cup Mbappe" in a World Cup Final.

[Cole Adams @coleadamss]

Going from MBappe to Haaland to Messi

[E @Ellis_]

There’s guys that are still lying about who is the greatest footballer of all time.

Being able to watch Messi and appreciate him for the absolute genius that he is, is wonderful there’s not a single player in the history of the sport that can chat to him.

[Dhruv @DKharabanda]

You see Messi play like this and then think of the people that are giving a shout out to Declan Rice for the Ballon d’Or

There are levels to this game 😂

[Neal 🇦🇺 @NealGardner_]

Sitting here at 4am having a mini existential crisis because I cannot make sense of Lionel Messi’s greatness.

My dopamine levels in these past 90 minutes…