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🗣️ Puyol, sobre Messi
"Si esta selección ha llegado a la final, ha sido gracias a él. Le estaré eternamente agradecido por todo lo que nos ha dado como compañero y al fútbol"
#DAZNMundial
Que te voy a decir ídolo, nos hiciste creer a todos que era posible una vez más. Con 39 años fuiste el mejor jugador de la Copa del Mundo. Nos diste todo, nos hiciste volver a ilusionarnos y nos diste lo mejor durante 20 años. Si este fue el último baile, gracias por todo Lionel.
Let me tell you a statistic that will genuinely shock you.
Messi completed 9 successful dribbles against England alone.
(Nothing unusual, of course—we’re talking about Messi.)
Cristiano Ronaldo, across his last 4 World Cups (Brazil, Russia, Qatar, and the United States), completed 8 successful dribbles in total.
Let me say that again in case it didn’t sink in:
Messi completed more successful dribbles in 1 game than Cristiano did across 4 World Cups.
This comparison had to be made. It’s a comparison between a player who creates the game and dictates its rhythm, and another who depends far more on his team’s play and the system around him.
Whoever started comparing these 2 in the first place should be put on trial. 😅
At the end of the journey, Messi keeps proving that he exists on a completely different level—one that nobody has reached in the past, the present, or the future.
Lo que estábamos esperando, no lo vi y lo hice.
La musica de Rocky con los goles de Enzo y Lautaro.
Vamos Argentina Carajo!!!
1:13 para la piel de gallina
- FIFA made Messi complete 9 successful dribbles—the highest total by any player in a single game at this World Cup.
- The referees made Messi create 4 chances, including 2 big chances.
- FIFA apparently installed a precision scale on Messi’s right foot so he could deliver crosses with that kind of perfection.
- The referees somehow made Messi produce one of the greatest individual performances in World Cup history.
- FIFA also made Enzo Fernández strike the ball beautifully and bury it in the net.
Sure, “FIFA’s favorite.”
May FIFA and the referees keep “helping” you like they supposedly did today.
Your excuses are getting weaker with every game. Match after match, you’re only exposing your own bias and proving just how extraordinary Messi is.
En el Barça no valía porque era su zona de confort y tenía a Xavi e Iniesta. En Argentina perdía finales en TE o penales siendo el mejor y era “pecho frío”. Inventaron el Villarato, a Negreira y ahora a Infantino.
Todo para no reconocer que es EL MEJOR JUGADOR DE LA HISTORIA.
Corrió el pelotazo, trabó y le ganó a Spence, cuidó la pelota con la derecha y le giró con la zurda a Harry Kane como si fuera un amateur, después le metió un caño suave a Anthony Gordon y amagó con un gesto a Anderson.
Todo esto con casi 40 años y en una semifinal de un Mundial
🚨𝐍𝐄𝐖: Semi Finalists at World Cup 2026
🇪🇦 𝗦𝗽𝗮𝗶𝗻
Most Goals — Oyarzabal
Most Assists — Cucurella
Most Key Passes — Porro
Most Successful Dribbles (p90) — Yamal
Most Chances Created — Baena
Most Big Chances Created — Cucurella
Most Accurate Crosses — Rodriguez
🇲🇫 𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲
Most Goals — Mbappe
Most Assists — Olise
Most Key Passes — Dembele
Most Successful Dribbles (p90) — Barcola
Most Big Chances Created — Olise
Most Chances Created — Mbappe
Most Accurate Crosses — Dembele
🏴 𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱
Most Goals — Kane / Bellingham
Most Assists — Gordon
Most Key Passes — Declan Rice
Most Successful Dribbles (p90) — Eze
Most Chances Created — Bellingham
Most Big Chances Created — Declan Rice
Most Accurate Crosses — Madueke
🇦🇷 𝗔𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗮
Most Goals — Messi
Most Assists — Messi
Most Key Passes — Messi
Most Successful Dribbles (p90) — Messi
Most Chances Created — Messi
Most Big Chances Created — Messi
Most Accurate Crosses — Messi
At 39 years old, still carrying the hopes of a billion on his shoulders. Greatest Of All Time.🐐
I’m going to take my time with this one. If you’re busy, bookmark it and come back later.
Do you know the biggest problem with Cristiano Ronaldo? It isn’t that he never won the World Cup. It’s that he spent years telling everyone what separates legends, only to change the standards once he couldn’t reach them himself.
After winning Euro 2016, Ronaldo made it clear that winning a major international trophy was what completed a player’s legacy. At the time, Messi had just lost another international final and was going through the toughest period of his career. Those comments only added to the narrative that Messi could never be the greatest because he hadn’t won with Argentina. For years, that became the standard. Messi was called a bottler, while Ronaldo was praised as the player who had proved himself internationally.
Nobody wanted to hear about context. Nobody cared that Messi had dragged Argentina to a World Cup final in 2014 with a squad many considered weaker than the Portugal teams Ronaldo has had over the last decade. The only thing that mattered was that Ronaldo had won a major trophy with his country, and Messi hadn’t.
Then Messi won the Copa América. Suddenly, the goalposts moved. We were told one Euro was worth more than multiple Copa América titles because South America supposedly wasn’t competitive enough. That became the new excuse.
Then Messi won the World Cup. The excuses changed again. It was “fixed.” It was “scripted.” Then came, “A career can’t be defined by seven games.” Funny how nobody was saying that before the tournament, when many believed it would finally be Ronaldo’s chance to win it.
Now Portugal have been eliminated from the World Cup, and Ronaldo posts about Euro 2016 again. That’s what I find ironic. When international trophies favored Ronaldo, they were the ultimate measure of greatness. When Messi caught up, people started ranking competitions differently. When Messi surpassed him by winning the biggest trophy in football, suddenly the World Cup wasn’t supposed to define a career anymore.
That’s the contradiction.
The difference between Messi and Ronaldo was never just about goals, assists, or trophies. It’s about consistency. Messi never needed to diminish Ronaldo’s achievements to elevate his own, nor did he ask football to change its standards because they no longer favored him. He simply kept playing until he won everything there was to win.
League titles. Champions Leagues. Ballons d’Or. Golden Boots. Copa América. Finalissima. World Cup. Every major trophy that was ever used against him eventually became part of his legacy.
Cristiano Ronaldo will always be one of the greatest footballers to ever play the game. But this is exactly why I believe Messi is the greatest. He didn’t ask football to rewrite the standards.
He met every single one of them.