Also, this is a career defining few weeks for Messi. Performs well and he will go down as one of the greats, but if he doesn't i don't think he will be remembered too highly in the future.
Also, this is a career defining few weeks for Messi. Performs well and he will go down as one of the greats, but if he doesn't i don't think he will be remembered too highly in the future.
Wow. Really?Originally Posted by Bremsstrahlung
He could retire tomorrow and still be remembered as one of the most skillful players ever to play the game, IMHO
2014 World Cup Predictor:
Group A Winner/Runner Up - Brazil/Croatia
Group B Winner/Runner Up - Spain/Chile
Group C Winner/Runner Up - Colombia/Ivory Coast
Group D Winner/Runner Up - Italy/England
Group E Winner/Runner Up - France/Switzerland
Group F Winner/Runner Up - Argentina/Bosnia
Group G Winner/Runner Up - Germany/Ghana
Group H Winner/Runner Up - Belgium/Russia
World Cup Winner - Brazil
2nd Place - Spain
3rd Place - Argentina
Golden Boot - Neymar
Player of Tournament - Neymar
Australia
How many goals will we score? 2
First Goal Scorer - Cahill
Most yellow cards - Jedinak
First yellow card - Wilkinson
Score v Chile 0-3 loss
Score v Holland 1-2 loss
Score v Spain 1-3 loss
Most Goals:
Messi or Ronaldo - Messi
Neymar or Costa - Neymar
Suarez or Sturridge - Sturridge
Muller or Giroud - Muller
Van Persie or Lukaku - Lukaku
Mandzukic or Dzeko - tie
Yaya or Aguero - Aguero
Balotelli or Hernandez (MEX) - Balotelli
Last edited by joel31; 12-06-2014 at 08:05 PM.
Sure, he will go down as a brilliant player, no doubt about it. But if he wants to be in the same mould as Ronaldo, maradona, Zidane, he needs to perform on the world stage.
2014 World Cup Predictor:
Group A Winner/Runner Up - Brazil/Croatia
Group B Winner/Runner Up - Spain/Chile
Group C Winner/Runner Up - Colombia/Ivory Coast
Group D Winner/Runner Up - England/Italy
Group E Winner/Runner Up - France/Switzerland
Group F Winner/Runner Up - Argentina/Bosnia
Group G Winner/Runner Up - Germany/Portugal
Group H Winner/Runner Up - Belgium/Russia
World Cup Winner - Brazil
2nd Place - Germany
3rd Place - Argentina
4th Place - Spain
Golden Boot - Neymar
Player of Tournament - Neymar
Australia
How many goals will we score? 2
First Goal Scorer - Jedinak
Most yellow cards - Franjic
First yellow card - Franjic
Score v Chile 0-3 loss
Score v Holland 1-2 loss
Score v Spain 1-4 loss
Most Goals:
Messi or Ronaldo - Messi
Neymar or Costa - Neymar
Suarez or Sturridge - Suarez (ROY will probably prefer Wellbeck)
Muller or Giroud - Giroud
Van Persie or Lukaku - Lukaku
Mandzukic or Dzeko - Dzeko
Yaya or Aguero - Aguero
Balotelli or Hernandez (MEX) - Balotelli
Pretty much the same as Joel.
Japan are in Group C.
I meant Ghana. fixed it up now
World Cup Winner - Croatia
2nd Place - Spain
3rd Place - Argentina
Golden Boot - Dzeko
Player of Tournament - Modric
Australia
How many goals will we score? 3
First Goal Scorer - Oar
Most yellow cards - Jedi
First yellow card - jedi
Score v Chile 2-2 draw
Score v Holland 1-3 loss
Score v Spain 0-3 loss
Most Goals:
Messi or Ronaldo - Ronaldo
Neymar or Costa - Neymar
Suarez or Sturridge - Suarez
Muller or Giroud - giroud
Van Persie or Lukaku - rvp
Mandzukic or Dzeko - Dzeko
Yaya or Aguero - Aguero
Balotelli or Hernandez (MEX) - Hernandez
OK
I remember a couple of years ago when Barca were flying, people were saying Messi could be the greatest player of all time. As good as he is I just cannot see how he can be rated higher than Maradona, if Messi wins the World Cup single handed then we talk about him being a contender lol.
Coming from a point for view of somebody not apart of Maradona's era, in terms of world cup winning contenders at the time were Argentina easily the top team/ one of the top few teams at that time? If so i feel like it's unfair to base Messi on the context of Maradona's era as although Argentina are contenders they aren't "easily" a world cup winning team atm. Imagine if Messi was Australian, a team inferior to the rest of the world, the comparison wouldn't even be put out there.
The Argentina side that won the World Cup in '86 were not regarded as a top contender. Aside from Maradona they were crap!
Maradona >Zidane >Ronaldo >Messi>Ronaldo
"That Eusébio was a shit player he never one the World Cup" said no one ever.
Fixed
2014 World Cup Predictor:
Group A Winner/Runner Up - Bazil/Mexico
Group B Winner/Runner Up - Spain/Netherlans
Group C Winner/Runner Up - Greece/Colombia
Group D Winner/Runner Up - Uruguay/Italy (though i do hope england get through)
Group E Winner/Runner Up - France/Ecuador
Group F Winner/Runner Up - Argentina/Nigeria
Group G Winner/Runner Up - Germany/Portugal
Group H Winner/Runner Up Belgium/Korea Rep.
World Cup Winner - Argentina
2nd Place - Brazil
3rd Place - Spain
Golden Boot - Aguerro
Player of Tournament (do they award this?) Neymar
Australia
How many goals will we score? 1
First Goal Scorer - Tim Cahill
Most yellow cards - Mile Jedinak
First yellow card - Mile Jedinak
Score v Chile- 1-1
Score v Holland - 2-0 Holland
Score v Spain - 5-0 Spain
Most Goals:
Messi or Ronaldo - Messi
Neymar or Costa - Costa
Suarez or Sturridge - Suarez
Muller or Giroud - Giroud
Van Persie or Lukaku - Lukaku
Mandzukic or Dzeko - Dzeko
Yaya or Aguero - Aguerro
Balotelli or Hernandez (MEX) - Balotelli
I see what you did there
I hope he likes prison food.......and penis
Such cheating. Juggling with a string
Sorry, meant to say that I was rating players I've seen. I've no idea on old timely dudes other than TV and other old timely guys yelling at me that fish and chips used to be 20c etc etc etc.
Plus football was invented in 1991 anyway.
Everyone knows RBB invented football 2 years ago.
Is the commentary about 1 second early? He was calling own goal before it had even been played for the final time!
Noticed it on a corner call earlier as well.
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