Messi. the immortal babyface. the greatest of all time. on his last dance. but as the tournament went on, people began noticing the cracks: the favorable calls, the sense that the game's golden boy always seemed to have the wind at his back.
NWO's HOGAN, baby.
Mbappe entered the World Cup as football's ultimate heel. prime, arrogant, entitled. memes called him The Dictator. then he started playing football at level so absurd that people couldn't help but cheer him. He's Attitude Era The Rock.
suddenly the crowd want him to dethrone...