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Saddest days of my life - 11.04.2024 & 14.07.2024 🕊️

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I don’t know why, But please Congratulate yourself under this post because you will be celebrated soon by the grace of God
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Scolani is just so annoying, sub out this useless Mac allister and de Paul bring in Nico Paz and Martinez or Simeone
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That’s how some Ronaldo fans said that he’s more famous than Michael Jackson. Please, It’s michael Jackson we are talking about and not portable.
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Ronaldo loves to remind everyone that he never complained the year Messi passed him, that he stayed gracious through every final he lost. Funny how that story only gets told in hindsight, dressed up as humility, when the real pattern says otherwise. He strung together four Ballons d’Or in a row before the two ever leveled at five, and back then, the Ballon d’Or was everything, proof of who ruled the sport. He said as much himself. Whoever wins more is the greatest, that was his logic, his words, his scoreboard. Nobody forced that framing on him. Then Messi kept collecting: eight Ballons d’Or, a World Cup, Copa Américas piling up. And right on cue, the story flipped. Suddenly the Ballon d’Or “doesn’t define greatness.” Suddenly the World Cup is just “a seven game tournament.” The same trophies he once used as his measuring stick became irrelevant the moment they stopped measuring in his favor. That’s not sportsmanship, that’s a man rewriting the rules of the game the second he stops winning it. And let’s be honest about where Ronaldo actually sits in this conversation. His real peers, the players who belong in the same breath as him, are names like Zidane, Iniesta, Modric, generational talents who reshaped midfields and finals alike. But Pelé and Maradona built religions out of a ball at their feet. That tier isn’t within reach, not for Ronaldo, not for most who’ve ever laced up boots. Messi never took anything from him. Nobody owes Ronaldo a rivalry, and nobody owes him anyone’s peace of mind either. He’s built a career worth being proud of on its own terms, better to manage that than to spend it measuring every sunrise against someone else’s.
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This is the pattern with Ronaldo every single time. The moment something is out of reach, it suddenly gets recast as either overrated or beneath him. Individual awards, tournaments, records: if he’s on top of it, it’s the ultimate proof of greatness. If someone else gets there first, or if it’s a trophy he’ll never lift, it quietly gets downgraded to “not that serious anyway.” That’s not confidence, that’s a coping mechanism dressed up as swagger. Look at the timeline. For years the Ballon d’Or was treated as the be-all-end-all measuring stick, trotted out constantly by Ronaldo as the ultimate proof of who the best player in the world was. The second the count started slipping in Messi’s favor, the narrative flipped overnight, now it’s “voted on by journalists,” “political,” “doesn’t tell the real story.” Funny how the criteria for what counts as a legitimate honor always seems to shift depending on who’s holding it. Same logic now with the Euros. For over a decade the World Cup was the only trophy that mattered, full stop, and every other competition was a consolation prize. Now that it’s the one major title still missing from Ronaldo’s cabinet, all of a sudden it’s being talked up as equal to the World Cup in “dimension.” Football at its core has never been an individual sport. It takes a full team, a coaching staff, and a system around a player for any trophy or award to happen, and the players who understand that are usually the ones who credit their teammates the moment they pick up an individual prize instead of treating it as something they conjured alone. None of this back and forth from Ronaldo is really about humility at that point, it’s about narrative control. Reframe the wins as the only things that matter, reframe the losses as things that were never that important to begin with, and you never have to sit with an actual gap in the resume. It’s a smart PR instinct, honestly, and it’s worked for Ronaldo for a long time. But fans notice the goalposts moving every time, and it undercuts the moments of genuine class he has shown elsewhere. Greatness shouldn’t need constant rewriting of the record to stay intact, and it definitely shouldn’t come at the expense of the eleven other people on the pitch every single time.
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🚨🏆 Cristiano Ronaldo: “I’ve won Euro 2016 and for me it has same dimension as the World Cup”. “That remains forever. Tomorrow is a new day, and we go”.

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Messi turned 23 in June 2010, so this covers his career through around the 2010–11 season. By then he’d already built an impressive haul: Individual awards • Ballon d’Or: 2009, 2010 (back-to-back, won at ages 22 and 23) • FIFA World Player of the Year: 2009 • European Golden Shoe: 2009–10 • Trophy (La Liga top scorer): 2009–10 • FIFPro Young Player of the Year: 2006, 2007, 2008 • FIFPro World XI selections in multiple years Club trophies (FC Barcelona) • UEFA Champions League: 2005–06, 2008–09, 2010–11 (3) • La Liga: 2004–05, 2005–06, 2008–09, 2009–10, 2010–11 (5) • Copa del Rey: 2008–09 • FIFA Club World Cup: 2009 • UEFA Super Cup: 2009–10 • Spanish Supercopa: 2005–06, 2006–07, 2009–10, 2010–11 International (Argentina) • FIFA U-20 World Cup winner: 2005 (also won the Golden Ball and Golden Boot at that tournament) • Olympic gold medal: 2008 (Beijing) At just 23, he already had two Ballons d’Or, three Champions League titles, and five La Liga titles, a remarkably early start to what became the most decorated career in football history. Even Erling Haaland won’t disrespect Lionel Messi like this.
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Messi wasn’t better than Haaland at 23

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