Re: The Lionel Messi Appreciation Thread & Fan Club II

[Ganso]

http://www.sport.es/es/noticias/barca/messi-neymar-seran-rivales-los-jjoo-rio-2016-3923774

looks like Messi might play the olympics. Nerman will for sure

oh God, please let us a have another epic Brazil-Argentina final at the Maracana a la Maradona vs Romario  

[futbol]

Have I missed something? Aren't Olympics only for U20 players or something?

[Great Leader Sprucenuce]

I can post any Ronaldo and Messi compilation and find many goals they score that are even easier than penalties so we shouldn't count them either lol.

It's all absolutely nonsense started by fanboys having a pissing contest against one another.

[Ganso]

Have I missed something? Aren't Olympics only for U20 players or something?

All NTs can call 3 over 23 players. Uruguay called up Cavani and Suarez in 2012 for example

[futbol]

Have I missed something? Aren't Olympics only for U20 players or something?

All NTs can call 3 over 23 players. Uruguay called up Cavani and Suarez in 2012 for example

smh Messi and Nerman should rest instead of playing in that poverty tournament.

Messi against U23 defenders.

[Ganso]

To make it even worse they are also playing the centenary Copa America in 2016

[BarrileteCosmico]

To make it even worse they are also playing the centenary Copa America in 2016

Well the Euro 2016 is also going on then

[Great Leader Sprucenuce]

Wait Copa America and Euros is same year lol?

WAT.

[Valkyrja]

Have I missed something? Aren't Olympics only for U20 players or something?

All NTs can call 3 over 23 players. Uruguay called up Cavani and Suarez in 2012 for example

smh Messi and Nerman should rest instead of playing in that poverty tournament.

Messi against U23 defenders.

Balon d'Or locked down

[Ganso]

centenary CA will be on 3 June – 26 June, euros on 10 June –10 July 2016.

Euro group stages are kind of meh anyway

[Bankz]

messi and nerman should be ashamed of themselves playing against scrubs in a poverty tournament. especially messi. at least neymar has an excuse of wanting to be a national hero since Brazil hasn't won it before and being the only footballing title that eluded Brazil in their history.

[futbol]

To make it even worse they are also playing the centenary Copa America in 2016

Lucho will bench them into oblivion. Lucho 2016 first matchday sacking confirmed.

[BarrileteCosmico]

Wait Copa America and Euros is same year lol?

WAT.

Usual Copa America will be held in 2015 in Chile. 'Centennary' Copa America will be held in USA in 2016. Basically so FIFA can give Messi 2 chances to win a title with Argentina.

[BarrileteCosmico]

messi and nerman should be ashamed of themselves playing against scrubs in a poverty tournament. especially messi. at least neymar has an excuse of wanting to be a national hero since Brazil hasn't won it before and being the only footballing title that eluded Brazil in their history.

Why? The olympic gold is not a scrub tournament, it's arguably more prestigious than the Confederations Cup.

[BarrileteCosmico]

With 37 goals to Ronaldo's 36 Messi becomes the top scorer in all comps

[Casciavit]

With 37 goals to Ronaldo's 36 Messi becomes the top scorer in all comps

And there was talk that Ronaldo would beat Messi's record by the end of this season

Leo

[Harmonica]

[barca 2011]

Do we still have that thread that tracks Messi's records, and all the ones he breaks? And if so is anyone still maintaining it? He broke yet another today by now being top assist leader in Liga history and the hattrick means one more and he breaks Zarra's domestic hattrick record ffs.

He's breaking the record of breaking records

[Harmonica]

Broken scoring records with a hat-trick for Messi

- European Golden Boot (Georgescu 47), with hat-trick against Espanyol
- Single Spanish Club Season (C.Ronaldo/Messi 53), with hat-trick against Granada
- Single European Club Season (G.Müller 67), with hat-trick against Malaga
- Single Club + NT Season (Pele 75), with hat-trick against Espanyol
- Barcelona all-time (Cesar 252), with hat-trick against Granada
- Barcelona all-time including friendlies (P.Alcantara 369), with hat-trick against Osasuna
- El Clasico all-time (Di Stefano 18), with hat-trick against Real Madrid
- Spanish League all-time (T.Zarra 251), with hat-trick against Sevilla
- Champions League all-time (Raul 72), with hat-trick against APOEL

Broken assist records with a hat-trick for Messi

- Spanish League all-time 1990~ (Figo 105), with hat-trick against Levante

[Hapless_Hans]

Would need to know how many other records Messi has broken, without a hattrick, but based on this evidence so far I would say the little *bleep* has been toying with us all along

[neuro11]

Broken scoring records with a hat-trick for Messi

- European Golden Boot (Georgescu 47), with hat-trick against Espanyol
- Single Spanish Club Season (C.Ronaldo/Messi 53), with hat-trick against Granada
- Single European Club Season (G.Müller 67), with hat-trick against Malaga
- Single Club + NT Season (Pele 75), with hat-trick against Espanyol
- Barcelona all-time (Cesar 252), with hat-trick against Granada
- Barcelona all-time including friendlies (P.Alcantara 369), with hat-trick against Osasuna
- El Clasico all-time (Di Stefano 18), with hat-trick against Real Madrid
- Spanish League all-time (T.Zarra 251), with hat-trick against Sevilla
- Champions League all-time (Raul 72), with hat-trick against APOEL

Broken assist records with a hat-trick for Messi

- Spanish League all-time 1990~ (Figo 105), with hat-trick against Levante

insane

when is the last time FIFA did the doping test of him,...FIFA should do it now on every possible record breaking game..

[Pip]

Looks like you have competition, Harmonica.

http://www.reddit.com/r/d10s

[Pip]

Then again, it could be you.

[BarrileteCosmico]

Pls that doesn't even come close to harmonica

It was a moment I will never forget. He went past me, I stuck out my leg and Lionel Messi went over. This was at Old Trafford in 2008 in the second leg of our Champions League semi-final against Barcelona and, with the score 1-0 to us, I had fouled him in our area.

When I think about our win over Barcelona in that game, on our way to the second Champions League title of the Sir Alex Ferguson era, I always remember that tackle. Yes, I scored the only goal of the tie, and it was one of my better ones. But I will never forget that couple of seconds when the best footballer in the world deceived me into fouling him and I waited for the world to fall in.

It should have been a penalty to Barcelona, and an away goal would have won them the tie. But for some reason the referee didn’t give it, the game moved on and even Messi did not make much of a fuss. The relief was overwhelming for a few moments – and then I was back into the game.

He got his own back in the end. I faced Messi four times in my career, twice over the two legs in 2008 and then, as a substitute, in the Champions League finals of 2009 and 2011, when Barcelona beat us comfortably both times. Messi is back in Manchester next week, to face Manchester City again in the Champions League round of 16, and it is never a bad day when you can watch one of the best footballers ever pull on a pair of boots.

There have been so many superlatives to describe Messi’s career that you find yourself just adding to the pile of words about him. So these are some of the little things that you learn when you play against the man himself which you might not see on the television. First off, he never speaks on the pitch. In fact, I don’t think I ever heard him say a word. Second, you won’t believe how strong he is for a little man.

I am not ashamed to admit that in the games against Barcelona I spent a lot of the time just hoping he would take up positions as far away from me as possible.

Elusive is the word that immediately springs to mind when I think about Messi’s style of play. You think you have an eye on him and then – blink – he has gone, only to reappear somewhere else in space, with the ball. When you try to face up to him and make a tackle you know what it is he is going to do with the ball. The problem is staying with him.

He avoids the highs and lows of football. You rarely see him go over the top in a goal celebration, just as he never gets too downhearted. That’s a quality I think that I shared when I was a player. The game changes so quickly and you have to get yourself in a position mentally where you can deal with whatever is thrown at you.

http://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/paul-scholes-messis-a-genius-and-it-only-takes-a-second-for-him-to-trick-you-into-doing-something-daft--i-should-know-10058236.html

[neuro11]

wow! many great players and coaches had compliments for him but this is completely different...

[BarrileteCosmico]

Also him admitting Barca should have had a penalty is big of him, even if it is almsot a decade later.

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