Those who think that Lionel Messi is one of the top scorers of football fall short in reading the milestone. Messi is not one, ten or hundreds of goals. Messi is the game itself, the nirvana point of football. To measure it in terms of prizes and recognitions is to judge from the earthly plane a mythical being that unfolds his wings as soon as he steps on the playing field.
For 12 years, since that defeat by penalties against Germany, which left Argentina eliminated from the World Cup in the quarterfinals, under the direction of José Pékerman, they are looking for a team that accompanies Messi. "You have to understand Messi!" The sports commentators shout, year after year, that at the same time they do not hesitate a moment to crucify him when they consider it appropriate. But do we have to understand Messi? Is it possible to understand it?
In 2010, with Maradona as technical director, the same thing happened. Defeat, in the quarterfinals. The arrival to the final in the World Cup in Brazil 2014, seemed to show that Sabella had achieved it. Lio scored 4 goals in three games and we were one step away from glory after 28 years of that magical Mexico '86. But no. Four years after that game it is still a matter of debate. But there is something that no one can deny: the pain and the bitter taste of Messi when receiving the Golden Ball as the best player we all feel through the screen.
The feat and greatness of the impressive team of 2014, so well designed and directed by Sabella, were not replicated and were far from the reading and assembly of Sampaoli in Russia 2018. Once again critics shouted: "It's Messi's fault! The team does not understand Messi! He only makes goals in Barcelona! " Blasphemers and triumphalists, who are light years away from touching the soul of the game as the "Messiah" does.
Lionel Messi, an Argentine from the city of Rosario, seems to have been born in the center of the field. He seems to have touched the ball before giving his first cry. He seems to have learned to play football before learning to walk. It seems to fly before running. Because that is what the enlightened do: they fly and it is impossible to reach them running. The joy of Messi when he plays forgetting the prizes, the Golden Balls, the statistics, the registers, the earthly critics, feeling that only he feels on this planet (and that Di Stéfano and Maradona once felt) is something that is not can you understand. It only feels. The records are good for Ronaldo or Modrić. "The flea" is beyond good and evil, long ago passed the divine limits of football.
Messi triumphs when he plays with friends. That is why the idea of putting together a team for him, depending on him, is wrong. The kid wants to play, he does not want pawns! The formula "10 + Messi" does not work. The generational change of the Argentine National Team looks for that. These young, fast and intelligent, summoned by Scaloni have everything to consolidate in the next matches. It is not the Lionel team's search. It is the search for pure game, where Messi's flight can build his cosmic route. Because Messi does not score, Messi flies ... and, by the way, scores.
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