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BOAT is different from GOAT. Messi still remains the GOAT.

Love800:
Messi the fraud who rides on others to perform.

The programmed robot with just straight boring runs on the pitch. He must be supplied passes in the field so he can play. That was why he refused to leave barca for two(2) decades.

A coward.

but ronaldo will never smell world cup trophy. It gives us joy to know this

This is the fifth straight cup competition liverpool have knocked chelsea out.

Yamal didn't even see second, it was always going to be kane for the award. Mbappe, who finished second stood no chance having won zero trophies

But supporting arsenal is worse, bottling the champions league year in year out.

When will arsenal and chelsea produce a balon dor winner? Their own is only to make noise

I hope kane wins it, he has the best individual performance with a couple of silverwares to boot, he deserves it.
The overrated yamal should try harder next year

Ronaldo miscreants are already here showing their pains

Liverpool just brought brighton down to earth

Spurs need to take advantage of their sheer dominance

They'll act like they know everything, but every now and then, they keep changing their minds.

But women love to sexualise themselves

Tenses:
Villa Villareal are no pushover

they are no pushovers but have lost their last nine ucl matches against english opponents.

Another 3 points for liverpool

If this match is half as exciting as psg bayern last season, then we are in for a treat.

I thought you guys said God is not a magician

I should engage in habits that destroy my health and finances to be happy? How do some people reason

Rhado:
I will mention them by number of trophies he won for each club he played for.
Cruzeiro 1
Ajax 6
Inter Milan 5
Barcelona 10
PSG 15
Total 37

He was at cruzeiro at the age of 18 when cruzeiro won the 2000 copa do brasil, but he didn't play a single minute of the tournament. So he officially has no trophy with cruzeiro.

In all, Maxwell has 31 official trophies listed below.

Ajax

Eredivisie: 2001–02, 2003–04
KNVB Cup: 2001–02
Johan Cruyff Shield: 2002

Inter Milan

Serie A: 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09
Supercoppa Italiana: 2008

Barcelona

La Liga: 2009–10, 2010–11
Copa del Rey: 2011–12
Supercopa de España: 2009, 2010
UEFA Champions League: 2010–11
UEFA Super Cup: 2009
FIFA Club World Cup: 2009, 2011

Paris Saint-Germain Ligue 1: 2012–13, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16
Coupe de France: 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17
Coupe de la Ligue: 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17
Trophée des Champions: 2013, 2015, 2016

Rhado:
What about Maxwell, he won 37 trophies. Was once the most decorated player.

list the 37 trophies he won...

obonujoker:
Another trashy list.

Marquinhos has 48 trophies.

Ronaldo has 38 trophies

marquinhos has 32 official trophies. If you think he has more, list the 48 official trophies he has won.

bounju:
So where do you keep PSG and Barcelona Maxwell on the list. This list is not correct at all.

maxwell has 31 official trophies. If you think he has more, tell us the trophies he has won.

Tottenham's first goal against a premiere league team this season

Liverpool flattering to deceive as usual.

buharibanjo:
Lol except she has his account number beforehand if not theres no way she could have sent it I think

the story is cock and bull.

Nevertheless, an important lesson to be learnt

And how is this anyone's business?

I'm curious to see what england will do today if they take the lead against france

Four years ago it felt as if Lionel Messi's story was told.
He had finally won the World Cup, aged 35, in what he said was his last game in the tournament and - depending on your point of view - cemented his place as football's greatest ever player.

Four years before that, aged 31, many - including those around him - felt he had played his final World Cup game and would end his career without winning it.
And here he is at 39, having helped take England to the cleaners and send Argentina to their second World Cup final in a row.

Messi's two assists helped the South American side come from behind to win 2-1, taking him up to four assists at the 2026 World Cup - to go with his eight goals.
The joint top scorer and the second highest assister in the whole show.

Argentina will play Spain, the country where Messi has played most of his football with Barcelona, in Sunday's final; in New Jersey.

"He's the best player in history, I don't know what else he would have to do to prove that. The majority of Spaniards love him", said his national team boss Lionel Scaloni.

BBC pundit Micah Richards said: "They have Lionel Messi. They have the GOAT; the greatest of all time. It's about moments. We thought it could have been Jude Bellingham or Harry Kane, but this is why he is the king".

Former Barcelona and Paris St-Germain forward Messi had never played England in his career before - and Thomas Tuchel and every Three Lions fan will wish that was still the case.

The veteran showed a few quality touches in an attritional first half - playing more centrally - but it was after Anthony Gordon gave England a 55th-minute lead that Argentina came to life.

As Tuchel sent on more defenders and England sat back, Argentina had 88% possession for the following 37 minutes.

And Messi had a field day after moving out to the right wing.

"Getting Messi on the wing was the key for us", said goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez afterwards.

He completed nine dribbles and assisted two goals against England - the first player on record (from 1966 onwards) to do so in a single World Cup knockout game.
The entire England team combined completed seven successful dribbles in Atlanta.

Messi had seven touches in the opposition box - the same as every English player added together. The same for his four chances created.

He also put in a game-high nine crosses.
And by far the most important, he set up both of Argentina's goals.

The first was from a corner routine when he found Enzo Fernandez, who slammed in an 85th-minute equaliser from outside the box.

And then he crossed for Lautaro Martinez to head in an injury-time winner.

Ex-England defender Richards said: "He walks around the pitch and then he comes alive when the ball comes to his feet; This genius comes into play and sometimes that is just the difference."

Former England keeper Joe Hart added: "The guys went back to what they did against Mexico and Norway where they locked the door. What that did was free up Lionel Messi, who had the skeleton key - he absolutely ran the show for the last 15 minutes."

England captain Kane added: "For large parts of the game we dealt with him really well, but as always with the most dangerous players in the world when they have the ball they can create something. He's one of the best players ever for a reason."

This summer Messi became the all-time top scorer at World Cups with 21 goals (out of his 125 Argentina goals in total).
Fifteen of those 21 have come since his 35th birthday.

Eight have been at this tournament, passing the seven he scored in 2022 - which was just one short of Kylian Mbappe in the Golden Boot race.
This time Messi and Mbappe are level on eight goals. Mbappe's France play England on Saturday in the third-place play-off.

England's Bellingham and Kane are on six goals each and not out of the picture.
If players finish level on goals, the tie-breaker is assists - with Messi on four to Mbappe's three.

Messi could yet finish as the top assister at this summer's World Cup too - sitting one goal behind France's Michael Olise.

Former England goalkeeper Paul Robinson, speaking to the BBC, said: "He's a little magician, he really is.
He's done it all tournament now. You look at the goals scored and the balls he's put into England's box."

It is easy to forget Messi, then at Barcelona and aged 29, actually retired from international football in 2016.

He had lost the 2014 World Cup final to Germany and three Copa America finals.

Since reversing that decision he has won the Copa America twice.

When Messi - then of PSG - lifted the World Cup in Qatar in 2022, it felt as if the final piece of the jigsaw of his career was complete.

Many considered that the final thing missing from the argument over the best player ever - with many considering fellow World Cup winners Pele and Diego Maradona the greatest.

"I am very happy for finishing my journey in World Cups in a final, to play the last game in a final. That is really very gratifying," he said before the 2022 final.

"There are a lot of years from this year to the next one. I don't think I will be able to do that. To finish this way is brilliant."

And when he left Europe the next year to join Inter Miami in the MLS, it seemed like he was going to wind down.

Even during last year's Fifa Club World Cup, which he played in, it was far from clear if he would be involved this summer.

But here he is, still seemingly unstoppable - even though his game has changed.
Before the England tie, he had walked 47% of the distance he covered in this tournament, the highest percentage of any outfield player.

Tactically he has reinvented himself at least five times, says Spanish journalist Guillem Balague, who wrote a biography on Messi.

Messi has now scored or assisted in 13 consecutive matches for Inter Miami and Argentina.
If he gets involved in a goal in Sunday's final against Spain, it will equal his record set in 2011 of 14 in a row.

He will also become only the second player after Cafu to play in three World Cup finals.

Surely that will be his final World Cup game? After all, he turns 43 in 2030.

But maybe at this stage we need to stop presuming anything when it comes to the eight-time Ballon d'Or winner.

Source
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/c8jnl9zdzn2o

gracias124:
any black man supporting Argentina doesn't have self respect

the irony is that, if a white man makes such statements that whites shouldn't support a team full of blacks, people like you will be the first to scream racism.

Fifa must have told england to park the bus after scoring, cos argentina can't win without fifa's help. Well, according to penaldogs reasoning.

Seems fifa have completely banned that arsenal tactics of harassing goalkeepers during set pieces.

Two teams that match each other. It could go either way. But england really need this world cup, no trophy since 1966.

20 naira can buy one maggi cube