There is only one Lionel Messi (Part 3)
Lionel Messi is not only a striker but in fact he has developed himself from being a midfielder to a prolific goal scorer. Last season, Lionel Messi was able to find the back of the net 53 times in only 55 appearances. Besides scoring these 53 goals, he
managed to set up 24 more. These statistics are simply unmatchable by any player in the world and not even a “future” Messi playing in the third tire can pull such outstanding statistics off.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Cristiano-Ronaldo-c9629 is the only player who managed to come near Lionel Messi’s amazing statistics. The Portuguese star also scored 53 goals last season but he was not able to give out as many assists as the Argentinean maestro.
Besides scoring a lot of goals, Cristiano Ronaldo was not awarded with a lot of trophies. One thing that gives Lionel Messi another edge in his play making and goal scoring is his team – http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Barcelona-c38604.
The Catalan Giants are currently considered to be one of the best teams in the history of the game. While playing under their coach Josep Guardiola, Barcelona have won two UEFA Champions Leagues.
In his very first season, Guardiola managed to pick six trophies and then continued his outstanding trophy winning streak by claiming two trophies in the next season and winning a European double in the last season.
While playing under Josep Guardiola, Lionel Messi won a European double last season – all thanks to his 53 goals in a single season. On the other hand, Ronaldo’s 53 goals only managed to get him the Copa Del Rey title which was also won by Real Madrid by
winning against Barcelona in the final match of the competition.
Messi has shown that he is probably the best player in the history of the game just like his club.
Let’s face the fact that there is no future Lionel Messi. Messi cannot even be compared to Diego Armando Maradonna as the character of both the players was simply not the same. Moreover, while http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Diego-c11058 Maradonna was busy making solo runs and did not rely too
much on team play, Lionel Messi is performing in a team that only believes in passing the ball around.
Upcoming talents like http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Lionel-Messi-c22296 is simply an insult to the talent that the Argentinean possesses.
There is no doubt that there are good players in the world and players that can perform extraordinarily at top level but Lionel Messi is currently the best and just when everyone thought that he cannot get better than last year, he stepped up for the challenge
and is now in a better goal scoring and assist-making form than last year.
The only thing left for Messi to prove is on international grounds. The Argentinean star has still not won a big international competition as his team was knocked out of the FIFA World Cup 2010 and they didn’t make a huge impact in the Copa http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/America-c38390 2011
as well.
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