If Messi wasn't Messi and just another Argentine MLS player who dropped the exact same campaign, NO ONE would say he deserves the Ballon Dor. Messi deserves all his other ones because he was in Europe.

@FootbalGalaxy You can't imagine that because Messi is the only player since 1966 to register 8 goals and 4 assists at a single World Cup He might be the only one ever, we don't have reliable assist data before 1966, but only Fontaine, Ademir, Stabile and Koscis are possibilities