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Karleb:
Whoever came up with that "Mickey Mouse Competition" deserves accolades.

Too much of shalaye.

benji93:
Reminder: The Copa America has always been a farmer's championship yet the only time Pele starred in the tournament they were beaten by Argentina in the finals, Garrincha played too by the way. I mean if those two people could conquer the world, the mickey mouse championship should be easy to conquer, shouldn't it?

So you don't know Pele and garrincha weren't serious in that finals?
Na wa to you oo

Expert17:
Lols, dey use style sideline Messi U20 world cup and Olympics trophies.

Imagine, these trophies were won by CR7, we for no hear world again

Ah.. They will tell you how he's dominating the world like dominatrix

They will tell you how he dominated junior competition, dominated Olympic, Portugal, England, Spain, Italy and even 4-man post

Expert17:
Check Ronaldo head to head with South America countries and Messi with European countries.

E choke

If we enter there, most cr7 fans blasting copa America no go see mouth na

CapitalCee:
Which may be Paraguay? Paraguay was the hardest team France played in France 98. Needing an extra time golden goal
Germany Knocked them out in 2002 with hard labour.
In 2010 they reached world cup quaterfinals, spain beat them after Casillas saved a penalty.

The last time Ecuador met Croatia in the world cup they beat Croatia. They beat Poland too the last time they met to lose narrowly to England in R-16. Only Croatia and France will claim to be better than Ecuador and Paraguay.

Lol... See??
So these are the useless countries participating in Mickey mouse tourney?

Itsrm:


Meaning when he wins the world Cup, this is what will happen

of course na.

You can bet on that

CapitalCee:
Lol. When you hate a player like messi, you will always say laughable things

I tell you

CapitalCee:
Teams Messi Played to win Copa America. Plus highest goals and assist.

Uruguay.
Paraguay.
Chile.
Bolivia.
Ecuador
Colombia and
Brazil.

Teams Ronaldo played to win Euros. With zero personal accolades

Iceland
Hungary
Austria
Croatia
Poland
Wales.
France (he ran away in the the first 20 minutes)

So which of these line up of teams is more formidable.?

Ronaldo fan boys have no argument

of all those teams Ronaldo played against.

I don't know when last each of those team have qualified from WC group stage, if at all they've qualified for WC.

Hungary, I dunno wen dey qualified for WC last
Iceland, before 2018, I dunno wen they qualified for WC last
Wales... I'm not sure weda they've qualified for WC sef
Austria... I don't wen dey qualified from WC group stage last
Poland... Same thing as Austria

Only Croatia and France that are really worthy competitors.


But if you look at Argentina opponent Aside Bolivia and to an extent Ecuador, the rest will go toe to toe with any European team and even grab a win.(maybe aside Paraguay)


But but... Copa teams are useless

Expert17:
Just wait until he wins World Cup next year.

They go change mouth again................"The final was played on Tuesday" "The standard of World cup dropped since 2010" " Messi won it at 35"

CapitalCee:
When he wins World Cup next year now, it will turn to win it back to back

Lol... I swear..

Or as expert said "world cup is no longer the world cup of before"

Expert17:
The same guys that asked him to win anything with Argentina

God pass man last last

Exactly oo...
Win anything with Argentina don turn win world cup with Argentina

GloryIsaac:
Ah, you for check Twitter.. dem been dey explain am to racists

Talk about the distance of the spot from the post, the mental pressure and all that

Lol... That wan different na.

But one thing is certain.. Penalties have up to 90% conversion of opportunity compared to any type of goals

Expert17:
They can't try such here

Mrviktor:
The Gunners have been locked in talks with the Seagulls for weeks over the 23-year-old and had already seen two offers knocked back.

But a breakthrough in negotiations on Friday saw a £50 million ($69m) bid accepted, with Arsenal now being given permission to finalise a deal with the England international.

See money wey arsenal use buy white.

Dem for just add money buy Sancho. ;DD

If na manutd do this kind signing we for no hear word..

Lol...
I never knew arsenal transfer news fit enter man u thread oo.

We don dey try be that

I remember when Mel.vin, God.x and some other messi critics were talking about how messi is a flop cos he didn't win any major Intl trophy with Argentina. How he can't even be regarded as a legend cos of how he flops at Argentina and how barca system carried him. In fact, they even proved that since he can't win it with Argentina, it's a sure fact that he can't win it anywhere else.
Then, nobody gave the reason that copa was useless and that messi shouldn't worry about the useless copa. Almost everyone agreed that he should win a major trophy with Argentina (even if na copa). They taunted his 2015 and 2016 final losses.

Now that he has won it... We are hearing how copa is Mickey mouse cup, how it is held every week , how useless the participating Nations are, how most players prefer playing friendly to playing copa

All just to deny the greatness of Messi

GloryIsaac:
Na when England miss penalties for final, we start to see epistles of how hard penalties are.

But na same penalties dem dey use troll Ronaldo for scoring effortlessly

Na who talk this one??

Expert17:
6 days after

Penaldo fans still crying.

omo... This win pain Ronaldo fans pass Ronaldo sef

GloryIsaac:
Nobody for use am as metric because e go rubbish the importance of the competition.

Remember say Lionel even missed a penalty in the 2016 edition, a year after losing the 2015 final on penalties.

Imagine say na Penaldo

Penalty wey Ronaldo love die , quickest way to that legendary celebration.

I wonder how Ronaldo will celebrate if he scored only his pk and all his teammates missed theirs esp in 2015 copa?

Unlimited22:
There's a dearth of top strikers in Europe ATM. Every other player is a bigger gamble than Lukaku Kane and Haaland. We have enough of those in attack. We need a proven reliable 9.

Are you sure? Or just scouts or clubs being lazy or looking for finished product.

I mean, halaand first came to initial limelight at u-17 world cup wen he scored 9 goals in one game, yet he wasn't taken too serious. He have to come back and do it in UCL with Salzburg before people now know who he really is.
If halaand (a european) have to use UCL to announce himself, how much more those strikers in Africa and America who won't have such exposure?

It's baffling that there's dearth of strikers in this whole wide world were every nook and cranny of neighborhood and fields, guys dey knock ball on a steady.

I don't just believe that

handelex:
Lmaoooo
No be only you bro, I no dey get energy for typing walahi. I prefer talking like kilode.

I swear down.
Esp most times the misinterpretations

KingAlabi:
Brazil would have done the world a lot of Good and won the copa America

Taahhh...

patrickmuf:
And now all of a sudden they realize the Copa has lost its value...

If Brazil had won, they'd have been here dragging Messi and calling him a failure away from Barcelona...

Now the narrative has changed from international trophy to world cup...

Amala turning at its peak

TheLequte:
How many South American teams have won the World Cup? Which South American teams have the best squads at major tournaments ? Colombia? Chile?

Uruguay, Brazil and Argentina.
That's 3 from a continent

Europe has Spain France Italy Germany

That's 4 to 3 with European football countries 2-3 times more than South American countries.

South American continent have produce 3 countries that won world cup, it's not Right to call its competition Mickey mouse tourney

patrickmuf:
Can you imagine? So because Argentina has won the world cup, they shouldn't strive to win the Copa or any other tournament?

It's like saying Manchester United should only be praised when we win the UCL because that's the top trophy as far as club football is concerned. Does it make sense to you?

The Copa is not useless rather you're trying hard to make it look useless just to suit your underlying agenda...If it isn't an agenda targeted at Messi, why didn't you bring up the discussion before now especially when Argentina failed in their previous tries?

Thank you.
In fact, it was even used as a stick against him sef

afrodoc2:
COPA has always been Mickey Mouse. It is not organized and not regular.

Messi fans are just being emotional. I am neither anti-Messi nor pro-Messi.

Make una think am na. Seriously.
Annual competition? When others are doing it 4 yearly.

And not even regular annual o. Next thing e fit be 3 yrs or 2.384 yrs.

Hilarious and true.

Tho, it's not organized, I agree. But that doesn't stop it from being a major trophy

benji93:
One thing is certain about this People, they never learn. They are always on the look out for punchlines to frame in their minds. Surely he will another excuse if he's truly who he is.

Lol... I never expected the "copa is not a serious cup" line sha

handelex:
Lol I no know oo
I just dey find almost every post hilarious today oo

afrodoc2:
Don’t worry yourself too much. I already researched for you.

Dem no too rate am for Brazil.

Disorganised competition from time.

No regularity. 2 times in one year then next thing no competition for 6 years.

Other times not enough countries are interested so they beg them to just send some players ANYHOW ANYHOW.

Other times to complete quorum they invite countries from other continents.

Please, before I'll answer the rest..
Wen did the bolded happen, lemme look it up?

patrickmuf:
When Messi was asked to first win an international competition before he could lay claim to the title of G.O.A.T., what international competition was been referred to? The only ones he can participate in away from the World cup is the Copa which for some weird reason is now trash...The others are of the junior category which he played and won (U-20 and Olympics)...

Since you are saying Brazil doesn't give a damn about the Copa, can we then start rating the Olympics because prior to when Neymar led them to their first and only Olympic title, they have always assembled their best available team for the Olympics...

Even in Nigeria, the mention of Atlanta 96 comes with some form of nostalgic feeling...

I am certain if Portugal wins the Olympics with Ronaldo starring, we won't hear the last of it for days running to weeks and months...

I remember neymar crying winning the Olympic, but when it came to messi, it's not a major trophy.

Now messi have won a major trophy, it's now Mickey mouse cup and shouldn't be taken serious.

E tire me oo

TheLequte:
Really?

Jodera you don join geng. Amala geng

Lol...
Haba na.
No be amala I dey turn na.

I'm just tackling it one issue at a time

afrodoc2:
Just shows how wretched the competition has always been.

Brazil the top footballing country in the world does not regard it. There were times Brazil refused to send teams and other times they did mini mini mani mo to pick from the registered footballers in Brazil to go there.

But your last discourse and this only talked about Brazil only and no other country. One thing I know is that Brazil is not the only top nation in South America.

If only Brazil does not regard it highly but others (like Argentina and Uruguay and Colombia) regard it then all the best for Brazil then.

If today France or Germany decides to only send small or inferior players to euros, that won't still diminish Euros quality if other top European countries takes it serious.

All the best for Brazil then na

TheLequte:
Read your own comment. The annual ish coincided with world wars. WW1 1914-1918, WW2 was around 1945. 1920-27 were years after the First World War.

During the most peaceful time in the 21st century national football tournaments were held less frequently. And football as we know it didn’t start in 1917 or 1946 when America was bombing the hell out of Hiroshima.

you didn't talk about the 7 whole years it was held annually (from 1920-1927)