Messi's face when he realized he was talking to Daníel Guðjohnsen, son of his former Barcelona teammate Eiður Guðjohnsen 😂
Messi and Eiður played together and won a treble in 2009. Now, Messi is about to play in his sixth World Cup 🤯
🚨🎙️🗣️| RODRIGO DE PAUL: “When we won the World Cup, a week later I received a golden iPhone. I didn’t know who had sent it. Then Otamendi called me and told me: ‘I received a golden iPhone.’ I said: ‘Me too.’ But we didn’t know the source. I found out that all the players received it, but from an unknown source.”
“Suddenly, Leo sent me a message saying: ‘I hope you like the phone. You are golden players and you deserve the best. This is a simple gift for you as a token of gratitude for what you’ve done for your country and for me. You are soldiers. All the Argentine players received this message, and with great joy, no one used the phone; instead, each one carefully placed it on the wall as a memento. And what a memento. We are lucky to have a leader like him.”
— @MotivacionesF
Cavani dared to provoke Messi and this happened 🤯
🗣️ José Mourinho: "I used to follow a policy that if we provoked him, he would lose focus, but with time I realized that this increases his anger and makes him more focused. He takes revenge with goals". 😂
Every reader has that one book they recommend so passionately, it’s like they’re earning commission. For me, that book is A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. What’s yours?
🇳🇬🗣️ JOHN OBI MIKEL: "I will never forget what happened after the U-20 World Cup final against Argentina. Messi won the Golden Ball, and I won the Silver Ball, but I felt I deserved the Golden Ball. I approached him and said in Spanish, 'You stole the Golden Ball from me. I was better.'
Messi, with his characteristic humility, smiled and replied, 'It wasn’t my decision; it was the committee’s. But what you’ve done for your country is incredible.' Later, when we crossed paths near the locker rooms, he offered to swap awards: 'If you want, take my Golden Ball and give me the Silver.' I laughed and said, 'I can’t; you deserve it. I was just frustrated. Thank you for being so kind.'
Years later, we met again at the 2018 World Cup. Messi greeted me, 'Hello, golden boy. I still have the photo from the awards ceremony.' That’s when I told him, 'Today I know you truly deserved that award. You are the best, Leo."
🎙️“The player who helped you develop the most as a coach?”
🇵🇹 José Mourinho: “Messi.”
🎙️“Why?”
🇵🇹 José Mourinho: “Every time we played against him, he forced me to think a lot. He exhausted me.”
Reading books in an AI era, where 400 pages can be reduced to a 5 minute summary, feels like rebellion. Like yes I will use my brain, thank you very much.