Lionel "The Greatest of All Time" Messi

Some small things accomplished by the goat..

Messi:- Is Among the five players in history to have featured in five World Cups [Cristiano Ronaldo, Lothar Matthaus, Rafael Marquez, Antonio Carbajal]
- Is the Oldest player to register a goal and an assist in a World Cup group game
- Is the Oldest player to register a goal and an assist in a World Cup knockout game
- Is the Oldest player to score seven goals in a World Cup
- Is the only player to win two Golden Balls – 2014, 2022
- Is the only player to score in the World Cup in his teens, 20s and 30s
- Is the first player to score in group stage, round of 16, quarterfinals, semifinals and final in a single edition of a World Cup
- Has the Record 19 appearances as captain in the World Cup. He is followed by Rafa Marquez (17) and Diego Maradona (16

- Has Played the most number of minutes in the World Cup, surpassing Paolo Maldini
- Has the most appearances in World Cups – 26
- Has the most assists in World Cups – 9
- Has the most goals at World Cup for an Argentina player - 13
- Has the most goal contributions in World Cup – 21 (13 goals and 8 assists)
- Has the most tournaments with at least one assist [2006, 2010, 2014, 2018, 2022]
- Shares the record for the most assists in the knockout phase (6) with Pele
- Shares the record for most wins by a player in World Cups (17) with Miroslav Klose

Excited to see PSG v Bayern

Messi: 2 WC finals, World Champion, 21 G + A in WCs, 10 G + A in 2022 WC

Maradona: 2 WC finals, World Champion, 16 G + A in WCs, 10 G + A in 1986 WC

Argentina also produced Alfredo Di Stefano with his 5 European Cups.

I think Argentina are only slightly behind Brazil as the second greatest footballing nation (ahead of Germany and Italy for me, sorry).

BarcaOG said:

imagine wanting to ban someone because they dont subscribe to your views authoritarian complex much?

ill just enjoy CR continuing to smash records and winning international titles which messi will nnnnnnnnnnnnnevvvvvvvvvverrrr do

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"on march 9 2022 i collected the fattest W in barcaforum history

let me anticipate the inevitable:
he's saving himself for qatar
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Turns out, he was saving himself to drop the best ever performance by a 30 plus year old in a WC in history, after all

It's over fam, I won

DonAK said:

IMO, play a final game in Argentina in front of home fans and then retire from the National Team.

No better ending than this.

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There is. Needs to score at least 2 goals in that game, making it to 100 goals for Argentina. No worries though, he already said this is not his last game, so he'll reach that 100 mark anyway.

Pedro said:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">���� Messi: ?I?m not retiring from the National Team. I want to continue playing as a champion.? tells <a href="https://twitter.com/gastonedul?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@gastonedul</a> ��️��</p>? All About Argentina ������ (@AlbicelesteTalk) <a href="https://twitter.com/AlbicelesteTalk/status/1604563972497330176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 18, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

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Still needs to reach that 100 mark goals for Argentina, makes sense.

DonAK said:

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I like that the trophy is blocking that cunt Lautaro who almost pulled off a Higuain 2.0. and screwed Argentina and Messi out of a World Cup again.

Also, an underappreciated stat...

He's scored 18 goals in 14 games for Argentina in 2022

KingLeo10 said:

Excited to see PSG v Bayern

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Bayern without Neuer and Lucas, PSG with Messi and Mbappe (and Neymar). The Bavarians are getting destroyed. In terms of the result hoping for something similar that they've done to us.

Pedro said:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">���� Messi: ?I?m not retiring from the National Team. I want to continue playing as a champion.? tells <a href="https://twitter.com/gastonedul?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@gastonedul</a> ��️��</p>? All About Argentina ������ (@AlbicelesteTalk) <a href="https://twitter.com/AlbicelesteTalk/status/1604563972497330176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 18, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

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Letss gooo

One more Copa America

Birdy said:

This WC will be the triumph of the idiots. They will write whatever stupidity one can imagine.

Blowing over proportion Messi's performance in the final is the tiniest of what they will do

PS: Di Maria was clearly MOTM until he came off...
For everyone who has eyes and not blinders

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How hurt are you that your boy Dumbele is the worst player on the picth and is subbed off when the first half is not even finished???

Di Maria was the best player until he came off, true but nothing can change Messi's great final game.

Out of the things I expected of him at this world cup , never in my dreams would I have expected him to be so clutch at penalties , like holly fuck what was that.

So happy that Messi finally won it.
It was an unbelievable individual performance but how he inspired his team is very underrated, not many can pull that off.
Parades definitely didn?t need the extra adrenaline though. Crazy mf.

He was the GOAT already but this is the ending he and his fans deserved.
Shouldn?t retire btw. Maybe no big tournaments anymore but definitely needs to play some games in Argentina as a world champion.

Oh and a special shoutout to zidane82 who wanted bench Messi for this game.