After 1 month out injured, Leo Messi is still the player with most goals (45) & most assists (23) in 2015.
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Messi watching Barca-Eibar from the stands
In my opinion, there is only one man deserving of the Ballon d’Or: Lionel Messi. He’s back to playing at an excellent level with Barcelona, and it’s not only in the Champions League, but with the Spanish double as well. Even if the titles with Argentina are resisting him.
Lothar Matthaeus, interview with FIFA.com
(via 4fabregastasticxavi6)
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#ThereWillBeAdmirers: “Messi is indisputably the greatest player ever to don a pair of football boots. Don’t even attempt to argue the point.”—Gary Lineker
Talent alone isn’t enough to become the world’s best. His career has been full of sacrifice and hard work. There will never be another like Lionel Messi; an individualist who sacrificed everything to chase his dream of being a footballer, who grew up in one of the greatest club teams of all time, which was then built around his unique ability. Dispute it all you want, but there is magic in the feet of the little Argentinian genius that no other has ever had….take the opportunity to watch Leo Messi play as much as you possibly can, while you can. —JJ Bull (insp.)
“Leo is like a kid, he’s only playing… and the wonderful thing is that he changes his mind three times in one meter.” – Johan Cruyff on Lionel Messi
“For Uncle Al there was no wrong or right answer, there were only experiments.” – Benay Dara-Abrams on Albert Einstein
THE WONDERFUL MIND OF LIONEL MESSI: The genius player carries traits that can be compared to Albert Einstein’s [full article via @grup14]
There’s no debate. Messi is better than Ronaldo.
Cruyff (via fuerzamessi)
this is FC Barcelona and these are their nicknames
After every glorious Lionel Messi performance, comes the question: “How will football be like without Leo?” After every trophy winning season, comes the question: “How will football be like without Leo?” After every heroic moment the greatest footballer in the world pulls off, comes the question: “How will football be like without Leo?”
After that, comes the optimistic statement: “Let us just enjoy it all while it lasts.”
This is how a culé’s mind works. Fans are fully aware of the impact Lionel Messi has on the team and fear his absence. They fear it even for a single match. One can only imagine the meltdown that will take place when Lionel Messi is no longer part of FC Barcelona. Let’s be honest, everyone has already imagined that once or twice.
There are two things fans will worry about when it comes to Lionel Messi’s absence:
1. His temporary absence during a football season and how the team adapts.
2. His permanent absence which is also known as the day Leo leaves the club for any reason.What about Messi’s influence that is so important? Is it just because he is the best player in the world?
Messi has been the main man in attack for over 7 years. Again, this is not about the number of goals he ended up scoring or the number of assists he provided. This is about Lionel Messi supplying the oxygen to everything related to Barcelona’s attack. If you were to truly analyze Messi’s influence in attack since 2008 you would realize that counting his goals & assists seems ridiculously inaccurate. Messi, in some way or another, has been involved in almost 90% of Barcelona’s results since 2008. Whether by scoring, assisting, sending that astonishingly accurate pass into the area, receiving free-kicks, changing the tempo, dribbling 2 or 3 players to open up play, and many other important little details to Messi’s style of play, the man has been involved in each and every goal some way or another. You can also suggest that Messi’s presence alone can alter how a defender is seeing a match. [excerpts from Life Without Oxygen by BarcaChief]
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