🚨🎙️ 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?”
Just landed at an airport in Italy. Handed over my Pakistani passport for immigration and the officer smiled warmly, looked at me and said, “You’re a global peacemaker. We’re proud of you.” He then asked me to marry his daughter because he would like his grandchildren to have Pakistani peacemaking blood in them. Made my day 🇵🇰🇵🇰🇵🇰
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1. Didn't know elected members of an opposing party were abducted and coerced into forming a forward block to have the mayor elected in New York like in Karachi.
2. Zohran ran for freezing rent, not demolishing thousands of houses in the name of cleaning nullahs, promising alternative accommodation but giving none.
3. Zohran ran for free buses, not burying citizens under unreasonably high Challans in a city while major arteries are dug up for buses but projects remain incomplete for years, major crossings blocked and many signals malfunctioning.
4. Zohran campaigned for freeing taxi drivers from debt. In Karachi Green Line workers are without salaries since months. Even employees in essential sectors like health suffer. House Officers of KMDC/Abbasi Shaheed for years get stipends only after Court petitions. Many remain unpaid after 10 months of service.
5. Zohran ran for city-owned stores with controlled prices for perishables. In Sindh over 13.7 million wheat bags rotted in Govt warehouses, while millions more went missing, costing billions.
6. Zohran wanted to make food carts more affordable by helping food cart runners own their licenses. Here in Karachi rather than regulating carts and hawkers through licenses we regulate them through bhattas and beats and later demolish everything in the name of encroachment.
7. Buildings and malls go up in flames but without any technical or fire department report being made public about integrity and safety of surviving structure, they’re given a facelift and reopened for business and accomodation.
8. Sindh Building Control Authority remains inefficient and corrupt, waiting for buildings to collapse and people to die before surveys.
9. When was the last time amenity plots were allotted in Karachi for Schools or Universities? The biggest school networks operate from houses built for residences as the city lacks a designated education district.
10. Zohran ran a campaign appealing to collective humanity and compassion and eliminating differences. Here every critique of PPP is deliberately labelled as bias against Sindhis by its social media team, inciting ethnic hatred.
11. Your party holds the Presidency, CM office and majority mayoral offices in Sindh yet devolution of powers remains a dream as UC Chairmen’s powers are limited and despite Mayor being Chairman of KWSB, its budget is controlled by ministries.
12. Zohran wants to regulate industries involving animals like horse carriages to ensure humane treatment. In Karachi, the Mayor keeps native and exotic animals trapped in small dirty cages, claiming they’re cheap entertainment.
13. In the first 7 months of this year at least 169 people lost their lives in crashes with heavy vehicles—63 by trailers, 37 by tankers, 34 by dumpers, 35 by buses—while rules for vehicle fitness were amended but remain unenforced.
14. Beautifying parks with affordable facilities for citizens is encouraged, but commercialising them with facilities only the middle class can afford is privatization and gentrification of public space.
15. Police continue custodial torture, deaths and fake encounters without reform. Sindh Police has failed to implement its own law by failing to make Public Safety and Police Complaints Commissions functional.
16. Whether Zohran delivers or not remains to be seen. But your party has ruled Sindh since 2008, controlling major municipal functions of Karachi through KWSB and SWMB for over a decade—and failed.