🚨 Cristian Romero: "Honestly, I was just talking with De Paul, and the truth is we don’t fully realize what we’re achieving or what we’re doing. I’m incredibly proud to be part of this family, this national team.
"Sometimes we don’t play our best football, but we leave everything out on the pitch and never give up until the final minute. Whether we play well or badly, we give our hearts every single game, and that showed again today."
🇦🇷 Lionel Messi’s 2022 and 2026 World Cup campaigns look almost identical 😳
📊 2022 World Cup:
👕 7 games
⚽️ 7 goals
🎯 3 assists
😮 21 chances created
😳 7 big chances created
💨 15 successful dribbles
📊 2026 World Cup:
👕 6 games
⚽️ 8 goals
🎯 2 assists
😮 21 chances created
😳 7 big chances created
💨 15 successful dribbles
He’s 39 years old right now! 🐐
23 - Aged 23y 12d, Jude Bellingham is the second-youngest player to score 2+ goals in successive FIFA World Cup knockout stage games behind only Pelé in 1958 (17y 249d).
Talisman.
Messi hanging with Mbappé and Haaland in 2026 is sort of like
Maradona competing with R9 and Zidane in 1998
R9 competing with Messi and James in 2014
Ronaldinho competing with Modric and Kane in 2018
In fact all were younger then than Messi now 😂
Messi hanging with Mbappé and Haaland in 2026 is sort of like
Maradona competing with R9 and Zidane in 1998
R9 competing with Messi and James in 2014
Ronaldinho competing with Modric and Kane in 2018
In fact all were younger then than Messi now 😂
This is exactly why it’s so wrong to say Messi carries Argentina. His goals and assists are just a by product of the teams style of play. Everything just goes through him.
🚨🎙️ Julián Álvarez on how Argentina treats Lionel Messi:
“People think we take care of Messi because of everything he's won.
That's not the reason.
We take care of him because he has spent his entire career taking care of Argentina.
When you share a dressing room with him, you quickly understand that he never asks to be treated differently. In fact, he's usually the first one to joke around, the first one to congratulate a teammate, and the last person to make anything about himself.
That's exactly why everyone naturally wants to protect him.
If Messi loses the ball, the first thought isn't, 'Why did he lose it?'
It's, 'Let's win it back for Leo.'
That's the mentality of this team.
We know that one touch, one pass, or one moment from him can change everything. So if we have to run an extra five or ten metres to give him that chance, we'll do it every single time.
For us, Messi isn't just the captain.
He's the heartbeat of Argentina.
Wearing the same shirt as the greatest player in history isn't pressure.
It's a privilege that we'll be telling our children about for the rest of our lives.”
Probably the best way to show what Messi does. You just cant put it in words. Even this chart is missing factors like his age. He’s an outlier in just everything, including missing penalties, work rate etc 🤣. The only player that could be compared to Messi is himself.