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The fact that so many still name Lionel Messi "the greatest
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The fact that so many still name Lionel Messi "the greatest or most significant or most influential" soccer player ever only tells you how far soccer still is from becoming a serious sport. Football critics have long recognized that the greatest players of all times are Jim Brown and Reggie White, who were not the most famous or richest or best champions of their times, let alone of all times. Basketball critics rank the highly controversial Wilt Chamberlain over other centers who were highly popular in courts around the NBA. Soccer critics are still blinded by tiki-taka: Messi scores more than anyone else (not true, by the way), therefore he must have been the greatest. Football critics grow up watching a lot of football games of the past, basketball critics grow up watching a lot of basketball games of the past. Soccer critics are often totally ignorant of the soccer of the past, they barely know past Ballon d'or winners. No wonder they will think that Messi did anything worth being saved.
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What's the matter, did Penaldo get rekt again?
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chat shit get banged lol
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didnt read lmao

(downvoted tho)
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>>64277170
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Most critics who rate him usually say Messi is unique talent. Very few base their opinions on goal stats.Anyway have a nice tsunight /sp/.
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Barbosa shitposting up a storm today. How many threads is it now, 4 or 5?
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>>64277362
truuuuuuuuuu XDDDDD
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>mfw plebs don't recognize this text
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>>64277170
>soccer
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>people still fall for the Messi is GOAT troll

how?

He is top 10 all time for sure but calling him the definitive GOAT would get you some strange looks in the real world.
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pls go back to the death grips board
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>>64280595
>this flag
>this topic
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"Look mom, I posted it again!"
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>>64280661

>I am an autist, and I have never had sex, but watching Barcelona every week makes me forget these things!

nice one buddy
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Ranking players from different eras in order of ascending talent will never be categorical, but the consistency of Messi’s magic is unsurpassed. The number of goals he has to his name at the age of 27 is quite ludicrous – he leads Barcelona’s all-time list – but his unfailing ability to make an impact on grand occasions is even more staggering. His beautiful brace to take this season’s Champions League semi-final away from Bayern Munich was just the latest example. A quixotic player for all ages. My historical perspective is limited to videos and testimonies from older, wiser folk, but I can only truly rely on what I see. And what I see is a player who routinely makes me stand up and swear at the TV. Extra marks in sport should always be awarded for artistic merit and Messi is not just devilishly effective, he is also magnificently aesthetic. Is there a better sight in football than a player darting into a tight space and out again, leaving three defenders in his wake before a dink over the keeper? It is something Messi does a dozen times a season. He has made something extraordinary look routine and he has done it year in, year out, in Spain and the Champions League. He isn't a self-obsessed peacock on the Cristiano Ronaldo scale; he has won more than Maradona. Pele, by all accounts, was outstanding and won the World Cup three times. But the clips I have seen of his genius simply do not match the things I have seen Messi do every week for years.
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>>64277170
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSsIIMapdRo
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>>64277170
>Jim brown
>Reggie white
>Wilt Chamberlain

Do people actually believe this?
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>>64277362
This is a copypasta thread now? Alright:

stoveboltexpress
Some 6 months ago, I took a temporary job with a small rural Sheriffs Department after retirement. On day in October, my Sergeant showed up and for some, as yet unknown reason had to be present at a special hearing in the Probate Judges office. A few minutes later 2 Deputies arrived leading a guy cuffed and ironed. After a short hearing he Sgt. came out and stopped at my desk. he said ":you see that guy right there". I said" Yeah is he crazy?". He replied "Yes, he likes to f**k dog; he;skilled 2 like that".I'll let that soak in....
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>>64280943
After 30+ years in Law Enforcement or as I prefer to call myself as a Peace Officer" I have seen some soul searing things, some human garbage and people who should, but for the constitutional protections be shot in the head after being forced to dig their own graves. I have sent or helped send some of the most perverse, sickest, meanest and most marginally human creatures to prison, usually not for long enough. When the Parole/Probation office is moved to the community-the small bedroom towns or suburbs where these members who release some way too soon, some too late ad generally think a crime is when the future yuppie scum of the political arena knocks their mailbox off its post with a bat at 2 AM from a car ( usually a Porsche or Audi or maybe Corvette ...the Z06 model; you know those to whom summer is a verb and who champion rights for illegal aliens as long as they are holding hedge clippers, wearing overalls and working for them for $ 6.00 an hour and think all black women should be wearing white dresses and shoes and waiting at the bus stop in the PM to commute back to their little hood from the 5 million dollar mansion which they work all day for 8.00 a day and all the leftovers from the Junior League Luncheon that can carry.......the ones whose kids get caught with machine guns they learned to make on the net and get to stay in after school or grow bales of maijuana in the attic of their 10,000 square foot home.....BUT as long as they can assuage their guilty little wannabe politically correct carcasses. A Jap slap of reality really helps some peole and there by would help us all.
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>>64280959
Maybe then the guy with 2 Rape 1 charges woukd still be doing time since they are 15 years apart and he routinely ignores all aspoects of sex offender registration, or the guy I worked so had=rd to stay on because he mouthf**ked 5 ittle girls and a little boy that we know about in the early 90s and was living with ine last time Iocked his ass up and her little girl and his tweeker wife who lined up these kids up like getting free government cheese and fed them to him.....read a detailed report or hell,just the whole file about 5 year old girls with bloody panties and STDs and UTIs....and Mama won't hear them since she is the one who basically set them up for him to use and scarred them for life.

Then...... walk into a pharmacy and discuss these types of maggots with the owner you have known for 30 years only to have a little 2 something ask you if you know anything about_________and hold up his name on a post it note.
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>>64280978
Adjourn to the sidewalk outside and ask which one are you hon?You already know all their names from reading a 200 page file in the goriest grossest detail. The/her story is this...when you hear how she keeps up with where he lives through the online registration program and she is concerned cause he is not listed there so she is afraid cause she don't know where he is living..OH JOYOUS AND MOST FRABJOUS DAY WHEN YOU ACTUALLY GET TO TELL HER THAT "LEON" ( NOT HIS NAME) IS NOT LISTED cause YOU PUT NHIS ASS IN JAIL 3 MONTHS AGO........THAT'S WHOLE 3 months ago for not registering his job in your county and your investigation showed he was living with victim # 3 in another county with her little girl so you made sure he has got warrants waiting for him there when he finally gets out of your county.TOO BAD LEON CAUSE NO METH FOR YOU FOR THE NEXT YEAR OR 2.....LOL POETIC JUSTICE WHEN AND WHERE YOU CAN GET IT.
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>>64280995
What a sweet look of relief comes over her face. You get her # and promise to let her know when he leaves for that other county jail....what the scumbag don't know is....his own sister, 1 year younger than him....fed you info on him every time he as much as passes gas that she gets from their mama who don't believe it happened as Mamas do.....That dense panel of the Parole Board of detached yuppie twits with a stick up their ass. Parole them to fleabag motels and hooker traps we will buld in their oaradise communities of privilege and CEMENT PONDS OUT BACK release these turds in fantasy land with gullible yupiies wandering around with their keys in their cars, house doors unloacjed and let them be victims fir a change....LOLThat will get more prison money "found somewhere" overnight new mammoth prisons for the worst predators would be done in 4 months and full of these types who destroy the quality of life everywhere.and let the 1-3% taste the turd that the rest of us are expected to regularly chow down on. Sorry but that is a pretty realistic comparison when you have a s--t sandwich and no bread. he clincher? He molsted little sister too c 1975. She and I have very very good memories. LOL Take you victories where and when you can. Out realpeople on the Parole Board and not a "Blue Ribbon committee but t=retired firemane, schoolteachers, a Doc or 2 a florist a pharmacist who keeps getting robbed for medication that real people need....a retired ditch digger...you don;t need JD after your name to have common sense and decency.
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>>64281018
Then the yuppies and Junior League can go back to taking up money to soother their guilty conscience for the poor children or their program to teach inner city children "conflict resolution through interpretive dance" NO SHIT...that has been done....always by some artsy fartsy uppity 1%ers.....hilarious I am sure it is highly effective for poor children with no real future ti dance Swan Lake at Lakeesha for stealing heir spelling book LOLOLOLOLOL, Shaontel had called my mama a beyutch so I will perform "maqrch of the Flowers at her to express my displeasure at her distasteful socialistical interactions and Jerome had knocked me up SOI will perform a dance to "The Hall of The Mountain King" at him to "reqesk" he suppote my baby like a good babydaddy. These are the things best left to uppity guiltrip yupiiies wishing to "serve the community".LOL Sorry typos but I made myself laugh about this dance BS which yo can find in a Google.
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Also remember ART....it's not just fr people anymore.....bring your pedigreed dog to the art museum Saturday for a Gala as The Junior League presents "Art....!8th Century French Impressionist Paintings for Canines: foe Poodles, Shitzus and Yorkies". See you there Valet pooperscoopers available upon request.Simply everyone who is anyone WILL be there!
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what the fuck are you bitches babbling about?
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>>64277170
Agreed, Messi is just a glib facsimile of Maradona.
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time to save the thread

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I didn't even finish reading your shit Perreira
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>>64277170
> tells you how far soccer still is from becoming a serious sport

But that's false. Not having a GOAT means its a competitive and difficult sport. If I invent a sport tomorrow and I can become the goat I less than a year probably.

Doesn't matter if you just rate Messi, any other player of any age considered in the GOAT debate wasn't nearly perfect. All of them failed at some point, just like Messi. And that's what makes good the sport.

If any sport had an undisputed GOAT that had dominated every aspect of the game, what's the point of watching the sport after he retires?
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>>64281802
El hilo latino es para allá viejo
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>>64277170

portugal has a point
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>>64277170
More journos -> more retards spouting shit

Here in argentina you literally have 70 year olds in TV destroying messi and reminding everyone of how good the game was in the sixties. So yeah, think whatever you like. Just know that you're wrong.
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