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[watermelon @itwtmh]

Not now bro, im acceptin the things i cannot change

[watermelon @itwtmh]

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[JA @DamnItWasFun]

This is one of the rare times I'm going to totally disagree with you, somewhat disappointed even. This entire take is a masterclass in psychological projection and a massive, desperate rewrite of football history. You're talking about a "missionary smugness" and a "manufactured narrative" to cope with the fact that the debate didn't end in a media lab it ended on the pitch.

It's a projection for me. To claim Ronaldo fans are just "content with their preference" while Messi fans are "zealots" is hilarious. The entire Ronaldo movement is built on an aggressive, highly online cult of personality that filters the entire sport through raw individual statistics. For a decade, the narrative from that camp was simple and uncompromising: “Goals are the only objective metric. Numbers don't lie”.

But the moment Messi matched the goal scoring volume while maintaining vastly superior playmaking, dribbling, and trophy metrics, the goalposts didn't just move they were completely uprooted. Suddenly, analyzing the actual phase of play, chance creation, and spatial awareness became labeled as "intellectual arrogance" and "smugness." It's not a superiority complex to point out that one player dictates the entire tactical structure of a match while the other relies on it, it's just basic tactical literacy.

The argument that the 2022 World Cup was hollow or hand delivered because people felt Messi deserved it is the ultimate coping mechanism. Nobody handed Messi 7 goals, 3 assists, and a masterclass performance in the greatest final ever played. He earned it by dragging his team through a grueling tournament under intense pressure.

When the footballing hierarchy meaning actual legendary players, managers, and peers who understand the game, said Messi deserved a World Cup, they weren't talking about a political handout. They were acknowledging the sporting injustice that the most complete footballer to ever live might walk away without the ultimate prize.

Trying to link a brief, emotional international retirement in 2016 to a global conspiracy that fixed a World Cup six years later in Qatar is pure really an unintelligent move. The alarm bells didn't sound to "manufacture a legacy" the legacy was already cemented by four Champions Leagues, multiple Ballon d'Ors, and record breaking statistical seasons at Barcelona.

You claim that what held him back was his own failure on the pitch, completely ignoring that he carried a chaotic, dysfunctional Argentina federation to three consecutive major finals before finally getting a stable managerial setup under Scaloni.

People aren't "waking up" to anything, you’re just trying to intellectualize your own footballing heartbreak. The "asymmetry" you’re feeling isn’t a media conspiracy or a religious dogma. It’s just the harsh reality that when the ultimate footballing arguments were settled on the biggest stage on earth, your narrative ran out of road. You can call the consensus smug all you want, but reality isn't a narrative—IT'S JUST WHAT HAPPENED.

[watermelon @itwtmh]

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[mommy🫦 @defnotini]

I removed myself from this boy’s private story, he added me back. Na by force? 😭 I no wan observe the burti, leave me aloneee.

[Nate_Fit @Learning_Mind_]

@Kashe1dz All Ronaldo was a super super elite goal scorer. Which is an amazing skill to have especially with the plethora of ways he could score in. BUT he didn’t have this breadth and depth of skills at his disposal , nowhere close

[watermelon @itwtmh]

@temidayo_falomo at least your own better dawg

[watermelon @itwtmh]

@temidayo_falomo @_JugadorNro12 😂😂😂

[watermelon @itwtmh]

@temidayo_falomo you wan put them for talk

[watermelon @itwtmh]

@temidayo_falomo @TouchlineX you are a fool 💔

[watermelon @itwtmh]

wait till you see the disgusting quality 💔

[Grand Regent bigbird✬ @terrificprodigy]

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[watermelon @itwtmh]

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[Marvin the Paranoid Android @Boboye_Ak]

He has been to the final twice. They should have come to meet him there

[watermelon @itwtmh]

@temidayo_falomo @SulaimanAbbaty chai

[watermelon @itwtmh]

@Drtcnwakile @dbanjyoungest ragebait

[OG’s Dad @Drtcnwakile]

@unclesuruu_ Nah. Messi is better than Ronaldo. It is not a debate

[watermelon @itwtmh]

@temidayo_falomo please explain

[watermelon @itwtmh]

@nott0bi why?

[watermelon @itwtmh]

Duh

[watermelon @itwtmh]

@rondii_ex same