ITT: LEO 'KING' MESSI

fabregas had a period of not being weird looking for a few years but that pic just proves that the past year has been a stunning return to form for the dude

rip the weird mullet thing 04/05 never forget

love this picture

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Football/Pix/pictures/2010/4/7/1270677208016/Diego-Maradona-Lionel-Mes-001.jpg

always liked http://images.dailyradar.com/media/uploads/ballhype/story_preview/2010/02/17/maradona_argentina.jpg

maradona is going to have messi killed, isn't he?

No, he loves him

77% of murderers are lovers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uY3NTmEKQP4

messi kind of looks like dustin hoffman

― fuck in rainbows, ☔ (dyao), Saturday, April 10, 2010 10:27 PM (2 seconds ago) Bookmark

Brazilian legend Pele, often considered the best player in football history, has offered a retort to those hailing Barcelona forward Lionel Messi as the greatest star to have played the game. The three-time World Cup winner says people should only start drawing comparisons when Messi has equalled his goal tally of over 1,000 career goals. The Argentine took his senior career tally to 133 goals, which includes 42 this season for club and country, with a goal against Real Madrid on Saturday.

Years Team Apps† (Gls)†
1956–1974 Santos 438 (474 [1][2][3][4])
1975–1977 New York Cosmos 64 (37[5])
Total 666 (626)
National team
1957–1971 Brazil 92 (77)

hi dere mr. plz try and score 40+ against modern shawcross defences instead of the lame old amerikkkan shit and then shut the hell up.

No matter how I try, I can't get that to add up to 1,000

well yes the 1000 supposedly also adds in like youth football and exhibition matches. now considering bojan supposedly "played for Barcelona's youth teams or cantera from 1999 to 2006, scoring over 500 goals.[2]" and Cesc and Pique left that yut team w/ Messi cos they were bored winning 8-0 each game and wanted to challange themselves...

Not sure what I think of this new, arrogant Pele - any other time I hear from the dude he's making nice and predicting Slovakia or Honduras to win the world cup

If there's such a thing as a 'footballing genius' then Pele was it but he should stfu with this 1000 goals shit when something like 400 of them were in friendlies. His official total is 643 - which is impressive enough!

Always taken it on trust that Pele was as good as the footage I've seen of Cruyff, Maradona, Best, but is there much more out there than the world cup videos I've got? Because on the evidecne of my 'MOTD 1960's, 70's & 80's' he was no Peter Osgood.

He could dribble at speed, pass well, demon shot, a few tricks and exceptional heading. Amazing scoring record for Brazil (77 goals in 92 games inc a World Cup hat trick at the age of 17). He probably started all this boring athletic yada yada stuff that Messi is supposedly the antithesis of.

You're right though, he's no Peter Osgood.

never played in the premiership iirc

It's probably my own fault that you guys don't even read my posts anymore, isn't it?

jol out?

lol I missed the motd bit Darragh :)

tell you what tho guys Osgood, G Francis and J Giles- amazing

boxset nicked by by ex-future-father-in-law, unfortunately.

Osgood couldn't cut it in the NASL.

Well, that's another angle I suppose

romario scored a 1000 iirc but i haven't heard pele calling him best player through all time either

pele's 1000+ is career 'first-class' goals, so I don't think that youth team is included actually.

Pele's 1,000th was a penalty, which just devalues the whole thing

Dedicated to the poor, even worse.

romario's thousand is at least as padded at pele's with exhibition matches, charity matches, games he played with jumpers for goalposts as a lad, goals people who looked like him scored etc.

rooney's scored 4 against pompey, but maybe it's a bad week for me to point that out.

Romario also had to play into his eighties to reach the mark. Some Austrian bloke actually did score a thousand, maybe his were real?

Messi in all comps- 205played 120scored 48assists (no friendlies). + 13 for Argentina.

Considering he's currently on a goal a game (at least), he'll hit... 400? at least? all comps. And he's still a winger as opposed to a fancy pants goalhanger like Pele.

Messi's nearing fifty for the season. All Pele's asking is twenty years of that.

http://www.lapermanenteamessi.com.ar/

A picture is worth a 1000 words etc, so not gonna say anything.

dont speak spanish, what's that site about

A campaign to get Messi's hair permed.

Exactly, get Messi's hair permed like Maradona's was. One of the reasons being that if he has the same hair style, Argentina are sure to win the World Cup just like they did at the time with Maradona.

Anyone got this bad boy or know of any other Messi DVDs available?
https://www.nikys-sports.com/productcart/pc/viewPrd.asp?idproduct=6375

love this thread tbh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xndnf27AU2I&feature=player_embedded

"Plays like he's got Woody Woodpecker down his shorts all the time, Lionel Messi."

big feature on messi in the new (american) sports illustrated -- haven't read it yet but it's one of their best writers

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1169995/index.htm

rip dude

http://www.sushigrass.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/sadtrombone.jpg

heaven needed another new maradona

*** sad vuvuzela sound ***

http://www.mocksession.com/30fps//HEINZECAMERA.gif

l-r: the world (heinze), leo messi (camera)

this doesn't enhance his reputation but it shouldn't diminish him either, despite what the hacks will say

he has been playing essentially as an attacking midfielder, and did so very well while argentina were playing well

today germany could play on the break for the entire game and there weren't enough passing options for messi

stop being otm and ruining the fun.

the hacks will say MARADONA WON IT ON HIS OWN or w/e but everyone knows messi's not as good as maradona (yet....)

http://i975.photobucket.com/albums/ae232/daggerlee/image002.jpg