Bappy

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[The Fútbol Zone | FZ @TheFutbolZoneX]

🚨📱| Gary Lineker’s Emotional Message to Lionel Messi

🗣️: “Forget football for a moment.

Imagine walking onto a World Cup pitch knowing your father is seriously ill. Imagine carrying that fear in your heart while millions watch you, judge you, abuse you, and even send you death threats.

Lionel Messi still played. He still carried Argentina. He still gave everything.

And now, after all of that, he has lost his father.

People will remember the goals, the trophies and the performances. But behind all of it was a son worrying about his dad while trying to do his job on the biggest stage in football.

That puts everything into perspective.

No football rivalry, no argument, no player debate is bigger than this.

My deepest condolences to Lionel Messi and the entire Messi family. May Jorge Messi rest in peace. 🕊️❤️

Be kind. You never know what someone is carrying behind the scenes.”

[Bappy @mxhfxj23]

😔

[Guillem Balague @GuillemBalague]

Jorge Messi had only one priority related to his son: to look after him

He did it when he asked a 12 year old Leo what he wanted to do: return to Rosario with the family or stay in Barcelona? By staying, Jorge stayed with him and had to let his wife Celia go back with the rest of the family. Imagine

He was let down by many people on his way to find out how the business worked

He told Leo once to turn the car around and sign photographs, unlike what Ronaldinho had just done. He was a good person who instilled strong values in his son

It is very sad

RIP Jorge 😞

[The Athletic | Football @TheAthleticFC]

Lionel Messi had made relatively little impact on the game. There were moments of skill and invention — there are always those moments — but England’s defenders had contained his threat.

And then, as against Egypt last week, Messi took control.

He didn’t score either goal, but he made them both, drawing defenders too him and picking out an unmarked Enzo Fernandez to score from distance for the equaliser and then producing a wonderful cross — with his right foot, no less — to pick out Lautaro Martinez for the winner.

People used to say of Messi that he couldn’t deliver for Argentina when the pressure was on. What a joke that sounds like now.

📝 @OliverKay

https://t.co/7VD60KqY2x

[Bappy @mxhfxj23]

❤️🥹

[The Athletic | Football @TheAthleticFC]

Lionel Messi had never faced England before. He’d famously been told, in his prime, by deluded English commentators that he probably couldn’t do it on a cold and windy night in Stoke.

But at 39, he still could do it in an air-conditioned dome in Atlanta.

How do Argentina keep doing it? They continue to go to the well and it is never empty. How long they’ve played this summer never seems to matter. How far they’ve travelled always, inexplicably, counts for little. They draw on reserves most oil-rich countries must envy.

Energy is always found in one place deep down inside; it’s derived from giving Messi one more game. Another 90 minutes.

When every game feels like it might be his last the Argentina players make a sacrifice for their football god.

📝 @JamesHorncastle

https://t.co/g2352L2EQg

[The Touchline | 𝐓 @TouchlineX]

🚨🗣️ 𝗡𝗘𝗪: Micah Richards: "Argentina have the GOAT. The Greatest of all Time. We thought it could have been Jude Bellingham, we thought it could have been Harry Kane.

But this is why Lionel Messi is the KING."

— BBC

[Bappy @mxhfxj23]

The amount of joy this tweet give me 😂. I would love to see their faces now🫣

[Football Tweet ⚽ @Footballtweet]

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Joe Cole: "Messi’s first time playing against England? Well, we’re going to put him to sleep. We’re going to put him to sleep. Yeah, 100%

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Troy Deeney: "I think we’ll BATTER Argentina. We’ll win at least 2–0, comfortably.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 John Terry: “Argentina DOESN'T worry me. I don’t look at Argentina and think they’re better than us. Player for player, we’re BETTER than Argentina."

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Ian Wright: "I think we will BEAT Argentina. The way they play and how narrow they are. I think we are going to block them and break them”

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Gary Neville: "With the centre backs they have, I can't see us not scoring at least 2 goals. We're faster, quicker, we've got a BETTER squad."

[Bappy @mxhfxj23]

🗣️🙄

[The Touchline | 𝐓 @TouchlineX]

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🚨 Former England players' statements ahead of England vs Argentina World Cup semi-final:

🚨🗣️ Ian Wright: "I don't fear Argentina like I'd fear France or Spain, because I think there are a lot of fallacies with them..."

🚨🗣️ John Terry: "If I’m being honest Argentina don’t worry me. I don’t look at Argentina and think they’re better than us. Player for player, I think we’re better than Argentina."

🚨🗣️ Gary Neville: "With the centre backs they have, I can’t see us not scoring at least two goals."

🚨🗣️ Joe Cole: "We're going to have to put Messi to sleep. We're going to put him to sleep. I'm saying it now, we're going to reach the World Cup final."

England ended up losing to Argentina. ❌

[Ryanair @Ryanair]

how’d that go?

[Reshad Rahman @ReshadRahman]

🚨💙❤️ Messi: “I know many of the players; a lot of them are at Barça, the team I love and still follow. It'll be a very even match" #WorldCup 🐐

[Bappy @mxhfxj23]

👏🏽

[Guillem Balague @GuillemBalague]

Hard to see it now, but England is living a golden era and learning to compete on the hardest of games

Today they needed more bravery, this word Tuchel has used so often, from the manager

Protecting a lead so early should be put down to Tuchel

But they are so close. Maybe it wasn't all down to Southgate after all! (It isn't), There is a lack of controlling midfielders (or lack of trust in them)

By the way, this confidence pre game came from a wrong reading of what Argentina is about. That should be another lesson for the future

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🚨 Lionel Messi: “To the fans, I say the same thing I said in Qatar… enjoy it”.

“This team will NEVER let you down”.

[Stephen Flynn @StephenFlynnSNP]

Yes. In the final.

[Neal 🇦🇺 @NealGardner_]

It was at this moment England lost the game.

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🚨🥊 Leo Messi: “It’s crazy what we have achieved… this can make someone sad, they can say whatever they want”.

“This group shows no one is giving us ANYTHING FOR FREE”. 🔇

[Bappy @mxhfxj23]

🥹❤️

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

💭 Leo Messi also dedicates the win to Maradona: “I’m sure Diego is enjoying this so much from up above. It goes for him, this was always a very special day… I’m happy of being able to give him this joy and 𝐈 𝐡𝐨𝐩𝐞 𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐭 𝐡𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐮𝐩 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 and enjoys it”. 🩵🤍

“We are lucky to have lived in Diego’s era. 𝐈 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐦𝐲𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐢𝐦, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐈 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐦𝐞. I choose to hold on to all the beautiful moments we shared together”. ✨

[BBC Sport @BBCSport]

Lionel Messi delivered when it mattered most 🐐

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🚨🔥 Leo Messi: “They can say whatever they want. We compete, we fight, we also play well, look how we played today dominating England while we were losing…”.

“I am proud, and happy to make all argentinians happy”.

[Bappy @mxhfxj23]

@piersmorgan Have you got your answer? @piersmorgan

[Bappy @mxhfxj23]

@NealGardner_ Yeah. I think we need changes in the line up too. Need some fresh legs and ideas. Don’t know why Scallony not doing it

[Bappy @mxhfxj23]

@NealGardner_ Messi all the way. No question asked.👊🏽