🚨🎙️José Maria Neves 🇨🇻, President of Cape Verde:
“Lionel Messi is a great idol. He is a very respected player in Cape Verde. For many Cape Verdeans, he is one of the best in the world. He represents excellence, perfection, and the very best that exists in football.”
“I will do everything possible for our national team to present him with Cape Verde’s No. 10 shirt as a tribute to one of the greatest players in the history of the game.” 🐐🇦🇷❤️
Draw was made before the tournament started, FIFA had to pay Austria, Algeria and Jordan to all lose against Argentina, then they paid them again to also allow Messi score a hat-trick, a brace and a free-kick goal.
Then they paid Uruguay to make sure they get eliminated and Portugal to make sure they don’t finish at the top of the table, then they paid Spain and Saudi to allow Cape Verde draw them.
Then they paid Colombia to finish on top, paid Uzbekistan to lose against everybody, paid DR Congo to finish third.
They will still pay nations in front too😂😂😂
Omo in this life have someone ready to spend on you the way Ronaldo fans think FIFA spends on Messi 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Portugal's EURO 2016 run is still one of the easiest title runs ever.
Group Stage
🇮🇸 Iceland
🇦🇹 Austria
🇭🇺 Hungary
❌ 0 wins. Finished 3rd.
Knockouts
🇭🇷 Croatia (121st-minute winner)
🇵🇱 Poland (won on penalties)
🏴 Wales
🇫🇷 France
The only elite team Portugal faced was France.
UEFA boy.
🐐 Lionel Messi at Age 25 was Pure Insanity 🤯
While most footballers are just finding their footing at 25, Messi had already completed football. By June 2012, his resume was utterly ridiculous:
👕 399 Appearances
⚽ 279 Goals
🎯 121 Assists
🏆 4 Ballon d'Ors (Consecutive)
👟 2 European Golden Shoes
🇪🇺 3 Champions League Titles
🇪🇸 5 La Liga Titles
Let's not forget, this was right in the middle of his historic 91-goal calendar year.
We will never see another peak like early-career Messi. 👑✨
#Messi #FCBarcelona #Football #GOAT
🚨🗣️ Novak Djokovic: "I met Messi at a restaurant in the United States. He asked me for advice about tennis. I told him: 'Please, Messi, don’t ask me that. I won’t give you any information. You dominated football and now you want to dominate tennis. No, no, play football. When I retire, then you can play tennis.'
"He laughed and told me: 'I’m lucky that football is played with the feet and not with the hands.'
"But the truth is I’m lucky Leo isn’t a tennis player, otherwise I wouldn’t win any titles. He’s the best football player of all time. I love watching him."
BREAKING: Barcelona are interested in signing England captain Harry Kane 🚨
The La Liga club are reportedly exploring how to finance a possible deal for the Bayern Munich hitman.
🚨🗣️ 𝗡𝗘𝗪: Thierry Henry: "I saw the beginning of Leo Messi's free kicks. At first, his free kicks in training were not good. I even thought that he was never going to become a master at that."
"But repetition, even for the best, is everything. People don't understand: there's talent yes, but you have to work on it."
"He would come in and practice free kicks every day. He would hit the wall, he would miss... And now almost all of his free kicks are goals or keeper saves."
One of the greatest pep Guardiola's moment in football
Pep Guardiola 🎙️🗣️:
“Before my last game, Messi promised me he would give me a proper send-off. Then he scored an incredible hat trick, hugged me after the fourth goal, and said, ‘This was for you. We’re going to miss you.’”
You block your defense, we score from freekick.
You play normal football, we dominate you.
You play haram football, we bully you.
You wait until penalties, Martinez dances & save ur penalties.
You make it hard, we collect penalty from FIFA.
You cry, we lick your tears😂
If you hear that an MLS player, who plays for Inter Miami, has scored 6 goals at the World Cup after 2 starts to lead the scoring charts, you’d be wondering why he isn’t playing in Europe.
Clearly, Messi didn’t leave Europe because he was no longer good enough. As already proven, if he is not still better than the best of them, he is at their level.
Even at 39. The best 39-year old to ever play the game.
After France defeated Argentina at the 2018 World Cup, BBC Sport wrote:
“The beginning of Kylian Mbappé’s era and the end of Lionel Messi’s.”
What followed was the exact opposite.
Messi went on to win:
- The World Cup, defeating Kylian Mbappé’s France in the final.
- 2 Copa América titles.
- The Finalissima.
- 4 league titles.
- 3 Ballon d’Or awards.
- 3 FIFA The Best awards.
- 2 Laureus World Sports Awards.
- The European Golden Shoe.
- And on top of all that, he produced one of the greatest individual seasons in football history in 2019.
Eight years after that headline, Messi even left Europe, giving their golden boy, Mbappé, every opportunity to dominate and finally win the Ballon d’Or. It still didn’t happen.
Then, at 39 years old, Messi returned to the biggest stage at the World Cup in the United States and took the tournament’s Golden Boot ahead of him.
They tried to put limits on a man who has never had any.