ITT: LEO 'KING' MESSI

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

nice

that's a full grasp

six hat-tricks so far this year

<3 this photo. Look at VDS's face lolol

http://s3.amazonaws.com/images.nachofoto.com/b-Lionel-Messi-one-of--47c0b850868e.jpeg

he looks so....small

he is

a puny 22 goals in 17 games is pretty shit for someone with six hat-tricks.

year != season

ah right. i don't care enough for my pointless contrarian cynicism to look up the appropriate stat, then. :'(

http://i.imgur.com/jZXJI.jpg

the rumours were that iniesta had this!

Lionel Messi tonight became the inaugural winner of the Fifa Ballon d'Or at an award ceremony in Zurich. The Argentinian forward was selected ahead of his Barcelona team-mates Xavi and Andrés Iniesta, who won the World Cup with Spain last summer.

Messi, 23, scored an astonishing 60 goals for club and country in 2010 and is regarded by many as the most gifted player of his generation.

The Fifa Ballon d'Or was created following the merging of France Football magazine's European Footballer of the Year prize with the FIFA World Player of the Year award. It is awarded based on votes cast by journalists from around the world and coaches and captains of national teams.

Messi was the holder of both titles and so joins the former Brazil strikers Ronaldo and Rivaldo and France legend Zinedine Zidane as a multiple winner of the latter accolade.

Alfredo Di Stefano, Johan Cruyff, Franz Beckenbauer, Kevin Keegan, Michel Platini, Marco van Basten, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge and Ronaldo are the only other men to win the Ballon d'Or more than once. Messi also became the first player to come first in a World Cup year without having won the tournament for the first time since 1994.

Lionel Messi tonight became the inaugural winner of the Fifa Ballon d'Or at an award ceremony in Zurich.

how can he be the inaugural winner if all those other dudes won it more than once?

the ballon d'or has been combined with the less prestigious fifa world player of the year to create this new award

oh

i'd imagine, then, that if it's a new award, ushering in a new era, that they'd want the first winner to be the player who regardless of how he matched up against iniesta or whoever will v likely be remembered as an icon of his generation

it's not the ballon d'iouf

it's voted on by players and journos afaik....don't think fifa have any say

messi is the correct choice, tho there was an arg for xavi also

full list of votes here: http://bit.ly/hMj0fV
von bommel's an idiot.

things notice on the first page: 1. o vermaelen. 2. lol 'captain of the national team'. quality nominative determinism. 3. 'invalid vote'? did prince glenson vote for another domenican?

He voted for van persie :)

Did the Irish FA refuse to co-operate?

c-ron not voting for messi

Messi also became the first player to come first in a World Cup year without having won the tournament for the first time since 1994.

Was this Baggio?

stoichkov

baggio won it 93

oh ok. <3 stoichkov.