Krishangi Sarma

Curious

[Manutinho @GxlDeManutinho]

Cuando los niños dicen “Visca el Barça” pero nunca vieron esta alineación…🕊️

[Krishangi Sarma @KrishangiSarma]

🤣

[Hannah @diasp8dri]

Fc Barcelona be like:

[Sheikh Hopeful @high_hopeful]

Now that the World Cup is finally over, thank God we won't have to see people shamelessly weaponize religion and the suffering of Palestinians to win arguments about football.
That was the only thing that genuinely pissed me off.

[A @ThatDarkSoulx]

World Cup is over, now all the casuals fans and larpers are gonna fuck off from football discourse.
This mfs made football games all about religion war.

[We$t @flygodT]

Thank God the WC is over, I can go back to watching football with people that aren’t damaged upstairs that keep turning every game into a conspiracy.

[dro 🇲🇽 @FutbolFax]

The hate Argentina got this tournament made me realize how easy it is to brainwash and program people. Would love to see someone publish work on this some day as it’s a very interesting case study.

[ethan. @frdrjpi]

bro this is deeper. i’m so happy for him

[Troll Football @TrollFootball]

Spain the second they stopped calling up Real Madrid players...

[Krishangi Sarma @KrishangiSarma]

Haha, undoubtedly 🫰🏻

[bia supreme @digitslbath]

@FCBarcelona @FIFAWorldCup fermín is a champion too in our hearts

[FC Barcelona @FCBarcelona]

🌍 𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗟𝗗 𝗖𝗨𝗣 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲

Pau Cubarsí is named the Best Young Player of the World Cup.

#MadeInLaMasia
📸 @fifaworldcup

[Krishangi Sarma @KrishangiSarma]

Felt bad primarily for Messi and Dibu, but what better feeling than seeing our Barca boys as world champions with the winning goal by one too!

Visca Barca 💙❤️

[FC Barcelona @FCBarcelona]

Your FC Barcelona World Champions. 🏆

📸 @FIFAWorldCup

[Amin @TheAminFCB2]

Cubarsi’s pinpoint long balls to Adeyemi and Anthony Gordon next season

[FC Barcelona @FCBarcelona]

Shoutout to the one and only Pau Cubarsí. A generational talent playing with the composure of a seasoned veteran at the World Cup at just 19 years old 👏

[Uzair 🇿🇲 @uzair208]

The problem with the World Cup is you find too many people who don’t watch football, who end up having stupid opinions

[Max Stéph @maxstephhh]

Retired from Portugal hate watching.

[𝐍𝐚𝐮𝐭 @nautfcb]

my #7 retired your #7

[Appie Culé @appiecule]

I’m going to take my time with this one. If you’re busy, save this post and read it later. If you’re a night owl like me, this is a good late-night read.

Do you know the worst thing about Cristiano Ronaldo?

It’s that he set the standards for what defines a legend… and in the end, he couldn’t even live up to the standards he created himself.

After winning Euro 2016, Ronaldo said:

“You can’t become a legend until you win a trophy with your national team.”

It was an obvious dig at Messi.

Argentina had just lost the 2014 World Cup final to Germany, and Messi was going through the toughest period of his international career. Those words only added fuel to the fire.

Where was the respect for a rival, Ronaldo?

The surprising part was that social media completely embraced that narrative. Messi was labeled a bottler, while Ronaldo was declared the winner of the rivalry—at least in the media, not on the pitch.

Then Messi retired from international football, came back, won the Copa América, and suddenly they were level in major international trophies.

What happened next?

Ronaldo fans started saying that one Euro is worth more than a hundred Copa Américas, claiming there was no competition in South America. Not true—but that became the excuse.

Then Messi went on to win the World Cup.

This time, the excuses changed again.

They claimed FIFA had fixed the tournament for Messi. That the World Cup was scripted in his favor. They simply didn’t know what else to say.

Then Ronaldo himself came out with one of the strangest quotes imaginable:

“A legend’s career can’t be defined by just seven games.”

At first glance, it sounds reasonable.

But beneath it was another attempt to diminish what Messi had achieved.

Before the World Cup, they insisted it would be Ronaldo’s tournament. On paper, Portugal had a fantastic squad. If the manager couldn’t get the best out of them, that’s Portugal’s problem—not Ronaldo’s.

Yet that same Portugal squad wasn’t any weaker than the Argentina team Messi led to the 2014 World Cup final—the same team people mocked Messi for not carrying to the title.

Just a couple of days ago, Ronaldo said:

“The World Cup doesn’t define my career, whether I win it or not.”

A statement that directly contradicts what he had said years earlier, when he admitted that winning the World Cup would make him feel completely fulfilled.

Now you’re 41 years old, Cristiano.

By your own standards:

* You have 5 Ballon d’Ors, not 8.
* You have one European Championship, not two Copa América titles.
* You never won the World Cup.
* You have four European Golden Shoes, while Messi has six—even though you’re an out-and-out striker.

So what now?

Will you keep playing until the next World Cup and become the first player to appear in one at 45, hoping to finally win it?

If we judged you by the standards you created, you wouldn’t qualify as a legend.

Of course, nobody actually judges you that way. Everyone still recognizes you as one of football’s greatest legends.

The real mistake was comparing Ronaldo to Messi in the first place.

That rivalry was exaggerated from the beginning by the media and figures like José Mourinho.

Messi conquered every major trophy available to him, shattered records that once seemed untouchable, and at 39 years old he’s still competing with Kylian Mbappé and Erling Haaland—the stars of the next generation—for the Golden Boot. And honestly, he could still win it.

What made Messi beloved by so many fans is that he never tried to diminish Ronaldo’s achievements.

Ronaldo, on the other hand, repeatedly made comments that many interpreted as attempts to downplay his greatest rival’s accomplishments—and that’s never an admirable trait.

Cristiano helped create a generation that thinks belittling other people’s achievements while constantly glorifying your own is a way to establish dominance.

Good bye. Ronaldo.

[Barça Universal @BarcaUniversal]

61' Gordon replaces Rashford.

76' Gordon assists the first England goal.

85' Gordon assists the second England goal.

[UK Footy Bible @UKFootyBible]

Declan Rice complaining how Ghana put “11 men behind the ball” like his team Arsenal didn’t do that against PSG for 2 hours…

[The Fútbol Zone | FZ @TheFutbolZoneX]

🚨 Jamie Carragher Blasts Ronaldo After Uzbekistan Brace: "This Changes Nothing"

🗣️ "I've seen people acting like Ronaldo just scored a World Cup final winner against prime Germany. Let's calm down for a second.

Yes, he scored two goals. Fair enough. Strikers are supposed to score goals. But the reaction from some of his fans has been absolutely unbelievable. Social media is flooded with posts talking about 'greatness', 'legacy' and 'the GOAT debate being over' because he scored against Uzbekistan in a group-stage game.

This is exactly the problem. Context disappears whenever Ronaldo scores.

Meanwhile Messi came into the tournament and immediately scored a hat-trick in his first match and followed it up with a brace in the second. Five goals in two games. Yet somehow the conversation today is about Ronaldo finally opening his account against opposition that nobody expected Portugal to struggle against in the first place.

The standards are completely different.

When Messi scores five goals in two games, people say, 'That's Messi being Messi.' When Ronaldo scores a couple against a team ranked far below the elite nations, some fans start talking as if football history has been rewritten.

The GOAT debate was settled by performances on the biggest stages, against the biggest opponents, under the biggest pressure. That's where Messi separates himself. World Cup finals, Champions League finals, Copa América finals — those are the moments that define legends.

Messi has spent years making extraordinary performances look normal. Ronaldo fans have spent years turning ordinary moments into extraordinary celebrations.

Messi remains the benchmark. Messi remains the standard. And for me, Messi remains the greatest footballer the game has ever seen."