🇳🇬🗣️ JOHN OBI MIKEL: "I will never forget what happened after the U-20 World Cup final against Argentina. Messi won the Golden Ball, and I won the Silver Ball, but I felt I deserved the Golden Ball. I approached him and said in Spanish, 'You stole the Golden Ball from me. I was better.'
Messi, with his characteristic humility, smiled and replied, 'It wasn’t my decision; it was the committee’s. But what you’ve done for your country is incredible.' Later, when we crossed paths near the locker rooms, he offered to swap awards: 'If you want, take my Golden Ball and give me the Silver.' I laughed and said, 'I can’t; you deserve it. I was just frustrated. Thank you for being so kind.'
Years later, we met again at the 2018 World Cup. Messi greeted me, 'Hello, golden boy. I still have the photo from the awards ceremony.' That’s when I told him, 'Today I know you truly deserved that award. You are the best, Leo."
Liverpool have beaten the reigning champions of England (x2), France, Germany and Spain this season without conceding a single goal.
4-0 v Leverkusen (h)
2-0 v Real Madrid (h)
2-0 v Man City (h)
2-0 v Man City (a)
1-0 v PSG (a)
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🇪🇸🗣️ Gerard Pique: "It can't be that you go to a football stadium, spend €100, €200 or €300 and the match ends 0-0."
"Something needs to change. One proposal to consider would be that if the match ends 0-0, the teams would score zero points." (@MailSport)