Most perfect 10.00 ratings since we started collecting data:
🇦🇷 130 - Lionel Messi
🇵🇹 38 - Cristiano Ronaldo
🇧🇷 33 - Neymar
🇺🇾 30 - Luis Suárez
🏴 26 - Harry Kane
Once the noise dies down, and football larpers are gone, we can have a discussion on how a 39 year old was the best player at the World Cup.
Unprecedented Legacy 🐐
This article is spot on, but there’s one other reason why Messi hate has spread like wildfire this World Cup:
~15 years ago with the GOAT debate at its peak, hundreds of millions of young fans worldwide picked CR7 as their idol while he and Messi went band for band.
And the battle was legendary.
But for the past decade, Ronaldo fans have watched their GOAT slowly decline while an aging Messi remained on top of the world, surpassing Ronaldo on individual awards and lifting the game’s most prestigious trophy, which Ronaldo could never get near.
Ronaldo’s millions of supporters now roam social media like a leaderless army who has lost the war.
With the debate on the pitch settled and Ronaldo’s legacy capped, his fans desperately undermine Messi’s achievements in a futile attempt to close the ever-widening gap between stars.
And I don’t blame them.
But that is why, as football fans everywhere enjoy the glittering sunset of Messi’s unparalleled career, millions of Ronaldo diehards are reduced to complaints about referees and TikTok aura edits from 2017, while they watch a little boy from Rosario forever eclipse their childhood hero and take his rightful place as the greatest footballer to ever live.
Apparently making 3 out of 6 World Cup finals and winning 1 of them is more embarrassing than making 0 out of 6 World Cup finals. Strange world we live in
🚨🇪🇸🇦🇷 Gavi: “I do NOT think Argentina players should be suspended”.
“I understand that this doesn't present a good image for the children, but football has always had a more aggressive side”.
“I see that everything that happened is part of football”.